>>14095133Psychiatry is mostly pseudoscientific/prescientific nonsense. It only thrives because of a few factors:
- the innate need of Man to make sense of the unknown. It's quite difficult to build a scientific model of understanding of a subject, while it's much easier to make up a good sounding story. It's extremely easy to publish a "scientific" paper in a psychiatry journal, for example.
- the death of religion and traditional values in the West. Modernity is a generator of mental illness.
- financial incentive to push CBT and pharmacological solutions.
- can be used to label undesirables and dissidents as crazy.