>>Sickhologists have the same success rate with patients as witch doctors. Not a joke.<<
Way back in the 60’s, John W Campbell wrote an editorial in Analog siting a study of mental health ‘cure’ rates.
Cooperating South American witch doctors ‘success rates’; American Psychiatric Association stats; and stats on “spontaneous remission without treatment” of involuntarily committed patients were compared.
The witch doctors & psychs tied, with a dismal ‘success’ rate, well below 50%; but were beaten unequivocally by the reported ‘spontaneous remission’ rates, also below 50%.
I make no claims as to the validity of the actual study, but I definitely remember LMBO when I read the editorial.
Ive read that too: before psychiatrists began drugging and shocking people the more wealthy would send loopy family members to sanitariums where they were simply allowed to rest and weave baskets, etc. Some 70% returned to normal life. Apparently the most effective treatment for people who have become overwhelmed by life is kindness, not brain butchering or drugging.