Sigmund Freud, the famous doctor that you might have heard about if your ever delved into the illusions of the insane. But Freud has had a quite complicated history, especially with his patients. The most infamous being relating present traumas to past incidents that did, and sometimes even today tear families apart. No doubt Freud was a prominent driving force for modern psychology, but this blog simply aims to highlight the loopholes in his and other psychological practices.
One of the major defects of psychiatry as opposed to simple medical practice is that while in the former, diseases are discovered, under special constraints and require empirical evidence, psychiatry sometimes gets into the affair of INVENTING diseases, unbound by any special constraints and more than often do not require any solid support cases. Sometimes, explicitly addressing the effects of past events on a person's behavior, can radically alter the roots as well as the effects of those incidents.
More than often appalling topics/arguments cannot/are not included in many stream because they may not appeal to that particular domain.
For example, the fact that atomic energy creates nuclear warfare doesn't make social conflicts a topic in physics, similarly , the fact that the brain and emotional judgements are involved in psychotic cases does not include moral and personal conflicts as topics in medicine.
THE DILEMNA OF "EXPERTISM" AND THE INABILITY TO DISTINGUISH
When a judgement is to be made in some cases, then instead of simply putting nut to bolt, the observer might become too skewed to instead either "downgrade" or "preach" the subject being judged, which then gives rise to "OUT OF THE BLUE" miracles.
Then the question which remains is 'Was the subject being judged really worth that attention, or was it just a fluke?
For example, take an impressionist whose job is to recognize whether paintings are authentic, but might he be too engulfed by the work, he might end up enchantedly creating a whole new figure.
So the question worth asking would be: What is that Painting? A masterpiece or a relic brought to life by the impressionist.
So things get quite interesting when psychiatry jumps into the bandwagon of inventing new cases which further force people into believing that those are REAL, and even if they weren't already affected by it, they will be now.
This is dreadful because it leads to EVERY unusual behavior that is being studied or any observed peculiarity by a psychiatrist to be classified as a 'DISORDER'. This is somewhat like describing the forgery of a masterpiece as itself a masterpiece, as it is just as pleasing to
the eyes as the original.
Take for Example the disorder that is thrown around without any proper context- OCD......
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has become quite popular, not because the cases of genuine OCD have suddenly sprung up, but because there is a cloud of misconception around this serious medical condition. Some being:
Being meticulous about the order of your belongings.
Repeated acts like washing hands to maintain hygiene.
Drafting out events to the last details.
These might just be some of the behaviors that we carry out instinctively, but the actual disorder is quite rare and might end up being debilitating. Those include compulsive thoughts ,imageries, worries about harming others, or preoccupations with numbers, patterns, morality or sexual identity.
Beware that in some cases, physiochemical and biological roots to the causes of psychotic diseases, are looked for, to gain prestige and fame than to get an understanding of it. This is also because of the famous dictum in theoretical physics(THAT'S EveryWherE). Since theoretical physicist enjoy much reputation and prestige, it was a prevalent trend among the psychiatrist to claim that they were indeed looking for some "real" physical root cause to the psychotic episodes that people experience.
Antique Hysterics
Conversion Disorder(Hysteria)(i.e. exaggerated emotional versions of simple incidents) involves intentional signs or bodily messages that convey something, while on the other hand psycho-somatic symptoms(those that are genuinely related to an individual's psyche)are unintentional signs, they are instead the actions that occur as a result of the antecedental
acts.
But the problem with addressing cases of initially called HYSTERICS with psychic ones is that people end up obscuring the matter with vague interpretations. Suppose for example that someone contracts paralysis or paresis(muscle weakness) which motivates him to conclude that the reason he has contracted the diseases is because he had sinned with that part of the body and so he was punished or that he was seeking some forbidden gratification with that and so it has been made useless.
So the idea of "CONVERSION HYSTERICS" has the ability to repress inter-personal conflicts related to objects, by diverting whatever psychic elements are involved, to bodily problems.
But What exactly are the intentions behind making such claims, we would never know. Worse, if the subject himself/herself is not aware of what he is communicating and to whom, then this loop will end up preying on the subject and the apparent witnesses of his absurd claims.
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