More and more I think a lot of psychological disorders are just random clusters of atypical neurological traits and not organized in any scientifically justifiable way
Well, that’s hardly surprising when you take into account how little is still known about the actual brain structure and functionality that determines the relevant behaviors. It’s even less surprising considering the amount of charlatanism and pseudoscience with which psychiatry has been plagued historically (think Freud or Rorschach—who are in fact still taken seriously by some in the field, though such flagrant superstitions, as far as I know, don’t make it into the DSMs and similarly prominent documents these days). Not to mention that many issues that psychiatry deals with have a pronounced ideological dimension, making the situation even more hopeless. (How can the question of what behaviors get to be branded as pathological ever be approached in an ideologically neutral way?)
Well, that’s hardly surprising when you take into account how little is still known about the actual brain structure and functionality that determines the relevant behaviors. It’s even less surprising considering the amount of charlatanism and pseudoscience with which psychiatry has been plagued historically (think Freud or Rorschach—who are in fact still taken seriously by some in the field, though such flagrant superstitions, as far as I know, don’t make it into the DSMs and similarly prominent documents these days). Not to mention that many issues that psychiatry deals with have a pronounced ideological dimension, making the situation even more hopeless. (How can the question of what behaviors get to be branded as pathological ever be approached in an ideologically neutral way?)