Modern psychiatry’s enthusiastic embrace of the current biological model of treatment was triggered by significant advances in brain research in the 1970s and afterwards--and as we all know, the influx of money from the pharmaceutical industry sweetened the pot considerably. But psychiatrists were also driven into this new frontier of technology by our longstanding inferiority complex as a medical specialty--never regarded as "real doctors" by our medical peers, or others, until we had a lot of pills to prescribe. Why are we so insecure? Your answer is here.
Modern psychiatry’s enthusiastic embrace of the current biological model of treatment was triggered by significant advances in brain research in the 1970s and afterwards--and as we all know, the influx of money from the pharmaceutical industry sweetened the pot considerably. But psychiatrists were also driven into this new frontier of technology by our longstanding inferiority complex as a medical specialty--never regarded as "real doctors" by our medical peers, or others, until we had a lot of pills to prescribe. Why are we so insecure? Your answer is here.