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4468399 No.4468399 [Reply] [Original]

Americans, explain this shit to me.

In your country there are therapists, aka shrinks. For this job, being a psychologist and a psychiatrist is interchangeable. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but psychology falls under human sciences while psychiatry is a medical specialty. One is a shitty degree that can't even prescribe medicine and one is a prestigious specialty that can actually "diagnose" the mental disease.

So if a guy who has bipolarity goes to a shrink, he can be both a loser human science graduate or a medical doctor. How is he going to get the treatment this way?

I'm adding this to my "Why America Sucks" list.

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Besides, by standards, psychiatry is not only limited to mental diseases, but also nervous diseases have to be treated by a psychiatrist.

>> No.4468406

Would a psychologist get the title of "doctor", or would that just be the psychiatrist?

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>>4468406
Yes, you can get a Ph.D in psychology, but you won't become a Medicinal Doctor this way. A person with a doctorate in psychology is as useless as a person with liberal arts major.

>> No.4468424

The majority of people seeing a 'shrink' don't actually have medical disorders, but have problems dealing with emotional/behavioural/general life problems. As such, a psychologist is of benefit.
Psychiatrists are obviously of value to people with genuine abnormalities in neurology or neurochemistry but those people are pretty rare.
The problem with psychiatry is the tendency to over-medicalise people's behaviour and problems, the default treatment is to prescribe psychoactive meds, when a lot of the time people's issues can be solved by talking to someone, changing their lifestyle, etc... ie the things that a psychologist can help them with.

>> No.4468432

>>4468424
Isn't most irrational behaviors caused by chemical imbalance? Most of the times they prescribe Lithium Carbonate. I can't seem to think of a gland that secretes Lithium by "talking to someone".