05-20-2024, 09:28 PM
This post was last modified 05-20-2024, 09:31 PM by Maxmars.
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I have to add something about my opinion here that may seem like an apology for those mental health professionals many are now questioning. It is not intended that way, but how you perceive the message is completely within your right to own.
Essentially, you have to trust the heart and intent of the healer. Most of these people are not even cognizant of foundational 'presumptions' behind what they were taught... and firmly rely on 'statistics' to form their framework of diagnosis. They have, within their industry, amassed vast amounts of data and observation... and much of their conjecture provides a workable, nominal, approach to mental health service.
Even if I am just as dismayed at the 'unscientific and unmeasurable' way psychological diagnosis takes form, their practices have actually helped uncountable people. It's hard to create a narrative of this as some manner of flim-flammery, a giant 'con' of sorts. As you get older, and meet more people in your world, you begin to discover that the "narrative of perpetual evil" is, in and of itself, a hindrance to evaluating the world rationally.
I think the reason for the problem is somewhere near the fact that the mind is not "only' a physical reality. Since it can't be measured, only inferred, there is a gap between... "well this works!" and "How does it work?" (let alone, "Why does it work?") The mind is not an "object"... only the brain is. Too be honest with you, I have more respect for the diligent and determined psychologist, than the technocrat psychiatrists for whom it's all "science" an no "art."
Enter exploitation... now I'm angry again.
Essentially, you have to trust the heart and intent of the healer. Most of these people are not even cognizant of foundational 'presumptions' behind what they were taught... and firmly rely on 'statistics' to form their framework of diagnosis. They have, within their industry, amassed vast amounts of data and observation... and much of their conjecture provides a workable, nominal, approach to mental health service.
Even if I am just as dismayed at the 'unscientific and unmeasurable' way psychological diagnosis takes form, their practices have actually helped uncountable people. It's hard to create a narrative of this as some manner of flim-flammery, a giant 'con' of sorts. As you get older, and meet more people in your world, you begin to discover that the "narrative of perpetual evil" is, in and of itself, a hindrance to evaluating the world rationally.
I think the reason for the problem is somewhere near the fact that the mind is not "only' a physical reality. Since it can't be measured, only inferred, there is a gap between... "well this works!" and "How does it work?" (let alone, "Why does it work?") The mind is not an "object"... only the brain is. Too be honest with you, I have more respect for the diligent and determined psychologist, than the technocrat psychiatrists for whom it's all "science" an no "art."
Enter exploitation... now I'm angry again.
