Freud, Lacan, Jung, Reich: having a healthy sex life and libido is a key factor to mental health.
Modern psychiatry:
@argumento is this a dunk on psychiatric medication? a lot of medication is known to be highly effective and saves lives. part of the scientific method is accepting that previously held hypotheses may be incorrect.
@amshepherd
Sexy times are a key factor to some people's lives, just not everyone's. You consider giving visibility to impaired libido a dunk? So we should ignore adverse events because some lives were improved?
I think the amount of people that die at the hands of doctors is the biggest dunk, but some people rather deny facts that make them uncomfortable.
@PiedraFiera i think there’s a difference between bringing visibility to an issue and blaming it squarely on “modern psychiatry”.
equally, there are doctors that commit malpractice (Andrew Wakefield would be a good example), but that doesn’t mean that “modern medicine” is a bad thing, only that, as in any field, there are some bad actors.
you can criticise the part without doubting the whole.
@amshepherd
Blaming? That is not what was happening but there is more than enough dead bodies and destroyed lives to spread the blame around and it goes way beyond malpractice. And I hell sure will criticize not only western medical practice, but the whole of capitalism and the naivete of people that defend them because some lives were supposedly saved. Just know, first those were ruined, and often it was at the hands of professionals.
