Humanity.-1- wrote: โTue Jan 23, 2018 11:28 amWhat do you mean "we"? You and I? or we as humanity?Philosophy Explorer wrote: โTue Jan 23, 2018 11:01 am -1- wrote:
"Psychiatrists' work is somewhat predictive, although not on an individual basis, but on a mass scale. They will stay with precise accuracy things like (as an example) "out of 1000 schizophrenics 14.8 will commit suicide by age 28", although they will be hard pressed to point at WHICH individual ones of the 1000 in the initial sample will be the ones to kill themselves."
So how do we determine who to let loose upon society?
What's the point to psychiatry then?
PhilX
It is psychiatrists who determine that, and I don't know the criteria they use.
The point to psychiatry is to make diseases more tolerable to live with, and ultimately, to find a cure for them.
PhilX