It doesn't take a brain surgeon--or a pediatrician--to figure that out: it's basic common sense. Unfortunately, basic common sense is something that is sorely lacking in today's society.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon--or a pediatrician--to figure that out: it's basic common sense. Unfortunately, basic common sense is something that is sorely lacking in today's society.
Indeed. However, professionals in one field, such as medicine, often rely on the "expertise" of "professionals" in other fields, such as psychology, when making policy or issuing statements to the general public.
Consider this "Excerpt from The Annals of Homosexuality"
"... Some behavioral sciences insist that there are no sexual deviations, only alternative or different lifestyles, and that these conditions are merely a matter of social definition, some made permissible by society, and others socially condemned. This is in keeping with the behavioristic point of view that all one could see, test, and modify was conscious behavior; and if human beings were allowed to express their sexuality freely, culture would change to reflect and accept all individuals as healthy. The conclusion drawn, as in the case of homosexuality, is: homosexuals are healthy; society is "sick"; consequently in order to remedy society's ills, fundamental changes in psychiatric diagnosis must be undertaken...
Some statisticians, beginning with Kinsey, behavioral psychologists, and psychiatrists (in contrast to most psychoanalysts) supply incidence rates of certain phenomena as if behavior had no connection with motivation. Since neither conscious nor unconscious motivation is even acknowledged, these studies arrive at a disastrous conclusion that the resultant composite of sexual behavior is the norm of sexual behavior. The next step is to demand that the public, the law, medicine, psychiatry, religion, and other social institutions unquestioningly accept this proposition..."