Psychiatry; an expose
Gemini said The Ghost in the Diagnostic Machine: Psychiatry’s Search for an Anatomy To define a medical specialty by its anatomy is to ground it in the physical reality of the human body. Neurology has the central nervous system; nephrology has the renal architecture; oncology has the cellular mutation. Yet, psychiatry—a field tasked with the "medical" treatment of the soul and mind—remains a specialty in search of a physical map. As an "unfinished" school of thought, it operates on a paradox: it claims the authority of medicine while lacking the objective biological markers that define every other branch of the healing arts. I. The Cartesian Chasm: Mind vs. Brain The fundamental struggle of psychiatry is its inability to bridge the gap between the brain (the hardware) and the mind (the software). In traditional medicine, "anatomy" refers to structure. In psychiatry, the "anatomy" is replaced by the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment...
