[RascalPuff]

If 'the 1st Law of Psychiatry' really is 'Never encourage unusual behavior', doesn't that exclude the accomplishments and contributions of a lot of unusually behaving people?

It can and sometimes is said that humankind would be better off without any kind of technological development and that may be true, but we're where we are, under the impingent circumstances, for better and/or worse, and if the 1st Law of Psychiatry is 'Never encourage unusual behavior', doesn't that fairly begin with failure to control fire and the invention of the wheel, for example?

(These points are so elementary that even a Geico advertising executive can understand them?)

If the 1st Law of Psychiatry is circumspected, is it not true that neither psychology nor psychiatry are sciences and for this reason have no authority to be conjuring - let alone functionally applying - any 'laws'?

If the First Law of Psychiatry really is trying to pass itself off as a scientific law, is that not unusual behavior and the pinnacle of duplicty? Is that not insanity, squared?

Post Script: 50% of the admitted patient hospital beds in the United States are psychiatric. Refer: insanity factory. Starting with the people in charge?

Any further commentary, criticisms, contributions are invited (as long as none of it constitutes or endorses unusual behavior?)

Interrogative: How much trouble are we in?
Declarative: How much trouble we are in.

[mkirkpatrick]

Thanks RP,the first law in psychiatry is;;firstly find the brain,then try to engage it! I have
been involved within the world of psychiatry for over 30years,and equally been involved
with those who are acutely mentally ill.

Some of the psychiatrists treating these patients,were as ill themselves,and I have personally seen many a shrink,being detained as a patient,(sometimes even within the
hospital they were working in)That is rare though,as they are moved to another area.



regards michael.