I struggle with neurology as producing genuine insights into human mental health, apart from those areas of possible degradation. Senility, affects on memory, brain damage, or areas where thinking-feelings affect interaction.
While the brain cannot be isolated but can be seen only in relation to the external world the investigation into the brain outside of these factors cannot possibly be justified.
Justifications are sought.
Clinical neurologists and psychiatrists have long recognized the frequent occurrence of psychiatric conditions in the context of neurologic (brain) disease. Indeed, this frequent co-occurrence of psychiatric with neurologic symptoms should come as no surprise, since psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and the mood disorders, can be induced by structural brain disease.
More recently, it has been recognized that it is the diseased brain in many instances that causes the psychiatric symptoms. This appreciation has opened up new avenues for understanding of these symptoms, and by extension of brainbehavior relationships in this context.
It has become clear that there is a high frequency of psychiatric symptoms in almost all neurologic diseases involving the central nervous system, such that the vast majority of patients with neurologic diseases will develop psychiatric disturbances ranging from affective disorders (eg, depression, mania) to cognitive impairments (eg, dementia, milder cognitive syndromes) to disturbances of perception (eg, hallucinations, delusions) over the course of their illness.
While the underlying causes of brain disease are often difficult to treat, there is emerging evidence that the psychiatric symptoms of brain disease are often amenable to treatment with existing therapies, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic. Since tens of millions of individuals now suffer from chronic neurologic disease, the publie health importance of neuropsychiatry as a therapeutic area of psychiatry should be obvious.
This is not a justification Stanley Wilkin , but only a scientific reflection of psycho-medical trends, with respect to emerging practices.
Stephen, how true is it? While it seems likely that deterioration in the brain is expected as it is only an organ this position serves also to intensify medical dominance and interpretation and its practices of course. Interpretive power exclusively employed remains dangerous.
Other processes claimed have been pushed back, even in a fairly simple factor that serotonin for example is everywhere, in everything, and has no agency in these other areas. Also, the mechanisms considered to create chemical states in the brain have been denied and claims that the brain does not function in the ways described. Processes need to be created that are not marked by ideologies.
Classical Science as a whole is a creation of what we belief. This means that Classical Science, as a whole, shows how we function. That is how Classical Science is an inverted image of our own being; in part.
It means that everything you do and experience adds to our understanding of Life.All disagreements with others exemplifies the interest of personal perspective.Differences in experience add to the variety in collective knowledge. Healing is the restoration of integrity of integration of information, in a living being.We can apply the same approach to revive’ our understanding of “science”, a ’rebirth’.It is a fundamental change in ‘axiomatic’ scientific understanding, a “Paradigm Shift”. It is about the inclusion of freedom of choice, involvement, in science.
Modern Medicine is based on Classical Science. Classical Medicine needs more than just the new classical relativistic quantum field models of science. Science regarded the scientist as a (classical) outsider with a (relativistic) event horizon, separated by a (quantum) leap from true involvement. Health Care addresses the experience of Life. Life differs fundamentally from ‘dead matter’.
Possible gateways Stanley Wilkin for better medicine and health care:
- Update Classical Medicine from classical science through relativity and probability theory to the now emerging field theory of science.
- Integrate the time-tested methods of healing from all cultures in New Science; combining experience with life involvement with insight into matter.
- Bringing Science to Life (Integrating Traditional Health Care with New Science)
- Healing Health Care (Integrating the result with Classical Medicine).
- Traditional Health Care can help science understand the role of involvement.
- Modern physics (New Science) can help Traditional Health Care explain how we can restore the integration of information and matter in our living being.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it. Moses Maimonides
Stephen,
I needed to see your views cleanly expressed. As you know, I do not accept medicine because it actually constructs its own reality and it has always an investment in power.
Away from psychiatry, my main focus, there was a considerable problem with deaths from pneumonia, within hospital confines, amongst patients two decades ago. Investigation was done later to find out whether hospitals had dealt successfully with so many patients dying of pneumonia within their confines. The report produced was optimistic. Whereas before between 60 and 80 % had died while in hospital the deaths had been reduced to 30%.
I found the research and studied the figures. While 30% had died in hospital of pneumonia and caught it within the hospitals, 30% had died a month or so after leaving the hospital and another 30% 6 months after. The responsibility lay and remained with the hospitals where pneumonia was being incubated. Pneumonia was and remains a hospital plague.
Stephen, my deep concern lies with the re-evaluation of lobotomy by the medical profession, which involves a rewriting of history and a denial of past wrongs. Governments exert no genuine power or influence on psychiatry therefore it does whatever it wants.
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