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To: lizol
Psychiatry at best is an art-form anyway, not a true science. In medicine a person's diagnosis's is based on science and not political or social pressure.. a temperature below or above 98.6 is abnormal and that medical diagnosis won't change because of some lobbyist or special interest group. But, according to this quack, he has decided that gay is normal and those who adamantly disagree have a psychological disorder.. Who's delusional..
72 posted on 01/06/2006 7:32:53 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: SeaBiscuit

There is great difference in clinical practice and educational foundation between "psychologists" and "psychiatrists." Just to make that point here.

However, I have encountered some truly nutty among both fields, and I reserve those adjectives ("truly nutty") for the most egregiously disturbed.

A psychiatrist in CA (medical degree and license) who had been institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia but had managed to keep that quiet inorder to maintain his license. It wasn't so much the license that was the disturbance but that the guy WAS, in fact, a paranoid schizophrenic who was making determinations about other vulnerable persons.

As to psychologists, I've heard worse.

I agree that it appears to be a case of the most disturbed among us humans who seeks out the field of, especially, psychology (a social science). Psychiatry, at least, requires a more profound education and clinical expertise.


93 posted on 01/06/2006 9:31:56 PM PST by MillerCreek
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