And testing for chronic Lyme is very difficult, yet it exists and can cause neurological trouble, mimic schizophrenia and so on.
Go to www.ctlymedisease.org, and look for the video by a Dr Raxlen. He's a shrink, and has found that he has to test every patient first for Lymes. If they have it, and fix it, the neurological symptoms go away.
I read once the comment "The biggest advance in psychiatry was the invention of penicillin, it got all the syphilis sufferers out of the madhouse." Lyme is caused by a spirochete, just like syphilis, and can slowly cause madness. And there are a lot of other spirochetes out there.
Dr Paul Ewald has a article somewhere on the web about the "Evolution of Infectious Disease", or some similar title. From the evolutionary point of view, madness should breed out if it were genetic. It acts like it is infectious.
That said, only pushing valium and prozac is not exactly the Dr Welby or Dr House approach we've come to expect of the medical profession.
Yes, but, how would all those in the field get money if it was decided Psychiatry/Psychology were a hoax. I was always under the impression that it was not a science and thus just opinion. And I have always believe some of those patients are possessed, plain and simple. This is a field that will never go away—they have done a good job of bringing out the counselors for every ocassion. Just watch the daily news.