“Patients who have abnormal brain chemistry can be markedly helped by the right medications.”
Can you name a single scientific study that has identified any abnormal brain chemistry with any identified psychosis or neurosis, and what the specific chemical imbalances are?
You cannot. There has never been one. This is entirely fiction.
Hank
Your dogma is disturbing, and inaccurate. As I tried to point out, the clinical diagnosis of ‘psychosis’ includes a wide array of symptoms and likely a broad array of mechanistic causes. There have most certainly been many studies that have linked alterations in brain chemistry with alterations in mentation. How do you think LSD does it's thing? Do you not believe that alterations in brain chemistry affect perception and mood? Have you ever had a drink of alcohol? Do you believe that women experience mood shifts with menstruation-associated changes in circulating hormone levels? The list goes on and on. That a single gene or single receptor or single neurotransmitter abnormality that explains all or most psychosis has not been identified is not surprising, and is indicative of the complexity of the brain and the difficulty in understanding this incredible organ. What do you believe? Do you think schizophrenics just need a good talking to?
Here's one:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/412177
The article first appeared in an October 2000 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
You sound like Tom Cruise claiming there's no such thing as depression.