[cgbg]

I just want to be clear. You are discussing medical advances that concern the brain.

Psychology and psychiatry are touchy-feely opinions about personality.

Physical brain damage is a medical problem. While psychiatry would love to "muscle in" on that territory they are only doing so to try to legtimize their bogus profession.

In my opinion one hundred years from now psychiatry will be considered as laughable as the Nazi head size experiments are today.

[cgbg]

And, since that apparently is your profession, I want to be clear about one more thing. Caring for people with brain damage (or any other people who need help) is called social work. There is no more "science" of social work than there is "science" of psychology or psychiatry.

Calling wild-ass guesses "science" is what many people do today.

If that is what you are doing today just remember that some of us out there are on to your "schtick".

[GovernmentShrinker]

I recently took an introductory psychology class at a local college. It was very heavy on brain anatomy and biochemistry, and experimental evidence from animal studies. There was very little "touchy-feely" stuff -- Freud's theories were skimmed over quickly, with both the book and professor emphasizing that there was little evidence for most of his ideas, and that they were being covered just as background on the history of psychology. Modern psychology and psychiatry are primarily serious areas of scientific research, notwithstanding that some garbage still gets mixed in, and that the early years of these fields were heavy on wild and subjective speculation.

[GovernmentShrinker]

In my opinion one hundred years from now psychiatry will be considered as laughable as the Nazi head size experiments are today.

While the specific experiments the Nazi's did lacked scientific validity, the concept of head size as being related to psychiatric problems is quite valid, as recent advances in autism research have shown.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020724080815.htm

Early efforts in any scientific field are later found to be deficient and largely wrong, but the early efforts nonetheless are essential precursors to the later, more successful efforts.