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What is psychiatry?

Components intersecting at cross-point where stands Psychiatry:

• The practice of medicine
• The practice of business
• The practice of one’s personal life
• The doctor-patient relationship
• The pursuit of Quality of Life

Who should go into psychiatry?

• Consider temperament
• There are areas of medicine that are more procedural based versus more weighted toward patient-doctor exchange.
• The medical system is incentivized by codes and governed by layers of administration.
• But the question begins with Me; what am I incentivized by?  Again, consider temperament.  Temperament encompasses perceived moral values, and where pleasure comes from.

What is brain illness?

• It is not just one thing.  It involves the biopsychosocial components.

1. Biological
2. psychological
3. sociological

We are not in this to cure anything.  We enter psychiatry to improve quality of life – through approach of the biopsychosocial model.

Questions for you:  

1. What is psychiatry?

2. Who should go into psychiatry?

3. What is brain illness?

Self-Care Tip:  Approach brain illness w/o expecting a cure, but rather a process.

Related articles

• “DSM-5: Caught between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice” (madinamerica.com)
• DSM-5: Caught Between Mental Illness Stigma and Anti-Psychiatry Prejudice (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
• Allen Frances: Is Criticism of DSM-5 ‘Anti-psychiatry’? (huffingtonpost.com)