Is psychiatry a pseudoscience?
Psychiatry is a medical practice based upon the science of psychology, but is not itself a science (nor pseudoscience).
>>7666604
Is your mom's pussy wet?
The answer's I don't know; but with further investigation. and the right neurons firing, it can be.
>>7666604
Is this supposed to be mocking animal psychiatry?
>>7666604
Typically, yes.
>>7666641
Not bad/10
>>7667731
No its mocking psychiatry. The author thinks the trapped farm animal is a metaphor.
>>7667731
It's saying that depression is justified and not a brain malfunction.
>>7666604
This cartoon is trying to lampoon something but I'm not sure it's psychiatry specifically. After all, what do you call an economic system where a doctor can write out a perscription for better living conditions?
>>7667757
Actually it's not one because if it was only a malfunction then the person would not be able to operate. Literally speaking
>>7666604
yes. what it lacks are tests that allow reliable measurement of neurotransmitter levels and receptor densities.
and knowledge of exactly how all drugs interact with them.
and probably simulations of how these two change in a brain of a person over time when talking drugs to properly design drug dosages and timing.
ITT /sci/borgs discuss the validity of a field that they have no experience or education in.
