I cannot decide whether to choose either psychiatry or psycology as my future profession. Here are some Pros and Cons of both.
Pros-Psychiatry:
-You are able to work independendently without having to consult someone else for prescribing medication
-Clients from working a short time as a doctor
-An increased paycheck
Pros-Psycology:
-I don't have to go to medical school
-I can work without having to worry about prescribing medicines incorrectly and have lesser chances of malpractice...and stuff like that
-I can begin working sooner
Cons-Psychiatry:
-You have to spend forever in medical school, and pay the tuition for forever in medical school, and I don't wanna waste that much of my life
-I don't want to have to be a doctor. My dad is one, and I can see through him how much I'd hate it
Cons-Psycology:
-Not as much money
-The chance of not having many clients
-If the client needs medication, I have to consult and work through a psychiatrist, and work under someone
Peggy K
Why not start out in the Psychology field and then maybe progress to Psychiatry, as well? Use the income from a Psychology practice to pay for med school and other costs, and go for it.
connanza
psychology...I don't really have an opinion, but reading your pros and cons, that's what I would say.
Velvet Vamp
psychiatry!!! it more... mmm how to say it... clinic and you can help people in a scientific way
nabdullah2001
You don't spend forever in medical school you only spend 3-5 years if you're planning to be psychiatrist who administers drugs, but it takes about 2 years for a doctorate in Psychology and that's why you're advised to come into doctorate programs with pre requisites out of the way that's why you see a lot of masters degree recipient getting into doctorate programs over those who don't have masters degrees.
rowanwagner
First remove the money factor - when you are considering what you want to do - the question is more what are your like - no psychology has move flexibility (you can go into social, family and business - organizational behaviorist make a very nice living_ as a career meaning it is not clinical based like psychiatry - so there is the length of time pursuing an education - both can be quite long depending on the field you specialize in. But again the decision should be what are your likes, your strengths and long term plans - family versus career etc...
ronscott1951
It sounds like you want the easy way out, so maybe you'd be better at another profession altogether? I had a very difficult time finding a Child Psychotherapist when my daughter was 7 years old, finally I found Dr Mona Delahook in the Long Beach CA area, she saved my daughter's life in many ways. Maybe you would be good at something like that. Good luck, Ron
The Outsiders
To be happy see this video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4P5Pmdvgp4
About Psychiatry see this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=en
Understanding Psychiatry:
"Psychiatry is not the same as neurology; whereas neurology treats diseases that have their aetiology or their physiology known and proven by medical science, psychiatry treats mental conditions where aetiology and physiology are both unknown and unproven."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_diseases
Psychiatry is not the same as Psychology; whereas Psychology studies the cognitive and subconscious mental processes of man with no regard towards physiology; Psychiatry studies theoretical mental disorder with the assumption that those disorders are based on physiological deficiencies.
Psychology develops therapies aimed to improve mans cognitive processes; whereas Psychiatry develops physiological treatments to treat theoretical physiological deficiencies where aetiology and physiology are both unknown and unproven.
The unscientific assumption that mental disorders are based on physiological deficiencies creates an arbitrary that makes any further research done by Psychiatry unscientific. You can't base science on assumptions and arbitraries.
Psychiatry treats theoretical mental disorders with theoretical physiological treatments.
Examples of Psychiatric theoretical mental disorders:
Premenstrual dysphonic disorder (PMDD) is a severe form of premenstrual syndrome.
Gender identity disorder: If you are gay you have this disorder.
Female orgasmic disorder: Many types of conditions are under this code.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-IV_Codes_%28alphabetical%29
As you see, these mental disorders are actually unscientific arbitraries based solely on opinion.
Examples of Psychiatric theoretical physiological treatments:
1st Example
Electroconvulsive therapy is a barbaric treatment where brain damage is induced into the patient by passing 70 to 200 volts of electricity through your brain. The electro shock and the heat further produce more brain damage by the effect decomposition and toxicity of dead brain cells. The only benefit of Electroconvulsive therapy is that it produces memory loss and amnesia. So the patient forgets its problems. Electroconvulsive therapy has caused death, coma and disabilities on patients.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2431926628202445879
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2761074183936137060
"About 100,000 people in the USA undergo ECT every year."
"The most commonly accepted theory is that ECT's mechanism of action is similar to that of antidepressant drugs and involves neurotransmitters, in particular dopaminergic, serotoninergic and noradrenergic systems."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_shock_therapy
2nd Example:
Lobotomy is another barbaric treatment developed by Psychiatry in the name of mental health. In this procedure brain damage is induced into the patient by cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex or simply destroying it.
"Even lobotomy's proponents admitted that only one third of the operated patients would improve, while one-third remained the same, and one-third got worst (25 to 30 % is the proportion of spontaneous improvement in many kinds of mental diseases! Thus, a large proportion of the operated patients could have recovered without the lobotomy).
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/lobotomy.htm
3rd Example:
The chemical imbalance theory, this theory alleges that serotonin deficiency in the brain causes depression. The following video explains this theory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR9vtdueubc&mode=related&search=
But this theory is not based in science and experts disagree:
"I spent the first several years of my career doing full-time research on brain serotonin metabolism, but I never saw any convincing evidence that any psychiatric disorder, including depression, results from a deficiency of brain serotonin. In fact, we cannot measure brain serotonin levels in living human beings so there is no way to test this theory. Some neuroscientists would question whether the theory is even viable, since the brain does not function in this way, as a hydraulic system"
Stanford psychiatrist David Burns, winner of the A.E. Bennett Award given by the Society for Biological Psychiatry for his research on serotonin metabolism, when asked about the scientific status of the serotonin theory in 2003.
"Although it is often stated with great confidence that depressed people have a serotonin or norepinephrine deficiency, the evidence actually contradicts these claims"
Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience Elliot Valenstein
"Indeed, no abnormality of serotonin in depression has ever been demonstrated"
Psychiatrist David Healy, former secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and historian of the SSRIs, in Let Them Eat Prozac (2004).
"A sugar pill was more effective than either St. John's Wort or the antidepressant Zoloft in providing relief to severely depressed patients, according to a new study that is unlikely to end the debate about the role of the popular supplement in treating the disorder."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076831/
"…I wrote that Prozac was no more, and perhaps less, effective in treating major depression than prior medications…. I argued that the theories of brain functioning that led to the development of Prozac must be wrong or incomplete"
Brown University psychiatrist Peter Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac, which is often credited with popularizing SSRIs, in a clarifying letter to the New York Times in 2002.
"Some have argued that depression may be due to a deficiency of NE [norepinephrine] or 5-HT [serotonin] because the enhancement of noradrenergicnor serotonergic neurotransmission improves the symptoms of depression. However, this is akin to saying that because a rash on one's arm improves with the use of a steroid cream; the rash must be due to a steroid deficiency"
Psychiatrists Pedro Delgado and Francisco Moreno, in "Role of Norepinephrine in Depression," published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in 2000.
We must be able to differentiate real scientific research against special interest research. The fact is that the chemical imbalance theory is unfounded because:
1) A connection of 'emotional states' and neurotransmission levels have not been established.
2) It is impossible to measure the serotonin levels in living human beings.
3) There is no evidence that brain cells produce and then reabsorb serotonin.
In the following video two college professors explain exactly what I'm saying in Fox News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTqjSfMPKA&mode=related&search=
We must understand that psychiatric drugs are a multi billion dollars industry, and that careful marketing campaigns are created to push these drugs. We can even say that the whole "Chemical Imbalance Theory" was created in an effort to market these drugs. We can also say that anti-depressants are actually a marketing name for stimulants and anti-psychotic are actually a marketing name for depressants.
Three types of drugs:
Narcotics: (OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet), also known as analgesics or opiods are drugs that are prescribed for moderate to severe physical pain. They are abused because of their euphoric, sedating, and numbing effects. Narcotic abuse causes tolerance and dependence and the withdrawal symptoms are severe.
Depressants: (Xanax, Valium, Librium) are drugs that are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep disorders. They are abused because of their sedating properties. With abuse, depressants cause tolerance and dependence and the withdrawal symptoms can be severe.
Stimulants: Ritalin, Dexedrine, Meridia) are prescribed to treat ADD/ADHD and other conditions such as asthma. They are abused because of their energizing and euphoric effects. Stimulants do not generally cause tolerance or dependence but abuse is associated with hostility and paranoia. There is also great risk for cardiovascular failure and seizures.
-Ritalin: Prescribed for individuals (usually children) who have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), has a high potential for abuse and produces many of the same effects as cocaine or amphetamine. http://www.streetdrugs.org
Psychiatrists are not common people. Psychiatrists have a different point of view than the rest of society:
"A recent survey in the UK found that 83 per cent of psychiatrists thought that ECT( Electroconvulsive therapy) was more likely to be beneficial than harmful – this figure fell to 69 per cent of mental health nurses and 14 per cent of psychologists."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
So how come Psychiatrists have such a different point of view than Psychologists and the rest of society?
Whereas Psychologists confronts the human mind or psyche and understand that each person behaviors is an evolution of his own personal experiences. Psychiatrists are unable to confront the human psyche; Psychiatrists don't care about your emotional issues or traumas; Psychiatrists only deal with man as an object, a biomechanical machine incapable of controlling his mental processes.
How else can you explain Psychiatry barbaric treatments? Like Electroconvulsive therapy, Lobotomies, strait jackets and severe drugging of patients. For them you are not a person; for them you are only a biomechanical machine. People that join the Psychiatric profession do it in order to learn to deal with man in a mechanical way.
The real role of Psychiatry in society is that they are psyche executioners of society. Whenever a person doesn't conform with the behavioral rules of society they can be sent to a Psychiatrist. And the Psychiatrist enforces the person to conform by the use of multiple control mechanisms; these mechanisms are drugs, electroshock, lobotomies and incarceration (When you are committed into a Psychiatric hospital against your will you are being incarcerated and your freedom is taken away from you. After this the patients are so scared that they will do anything in order to get out of that place.).
The behavioral rules of society are clearly expressed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
http://www.drugawareness.org/
http://www.adhdfraud.org/
http://www.escapefrompsychiatry.org/
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
http://www.mindfreedom.org/
http://www.endofshock.com/
http://www.stopshrinks.org/
http://www.gwenolsen.com/
http://psychrights.org
http://www.prescriptionsuicide.com/
http://www.breggin.com/
http://www.healthyskepticism.org/
http://www.aspire.us/
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