>2) psychiatry assumes individual deviation from society's norms is the root of disorder, rather than seriously considering the disorder of society's norms at large.
Without making a comment which either agrees or disagrees with the above, I would like to add that I believe those who downvoted comments such as this--controversial and/or original ideas--might consider to instead offer a reason why the comment is likely to be of low value.
For example, I can readily find evidence in support & in opposition to the above comment, i.e. WebMD states a primary symptom of Paranoid Schizophrenia to be a belief that the government is spying on you[1]. Another example: gay rights activists of yesterday would be able to tell you of a time when their sexual preference was considered a disorder.
So while the idea might be controversial, I don't believe it is inherently of low value to add to the conversation.
>1) psychiatry is not objective science
There is a reasonable argument to be made that there is merit in being critical of what we do, and don't call, science. Richard Feynman talked about this fundamental, simple nature of the scientific method and the critical component being that it provides a testable hypothesis that can be observed and repeated, which shows us nature agrees with our theory[2]. As we all know, this is very hard to produce in psychology, despite their best efforts to use maths and stats to create studies which find strong correlations.
Without making a comment which either agrees or disagrees with the above, I would like to add that I believe those who downvoted comments such as this--controversial and/or original ideas--might consider to instead offer a reason why the comment is likely to be of low value.
For example, I can readily find evidence in support & in opposition to the above comment, i.e. WebMD states a primary symptom of Paranoid Schizophrenia to be a belief that the government is spying on you[1]. Another example: gay rights activists of yesterday would be able to tell you of a time when their sexual preference was considered a disorder.
So while the idea might be controversial, I don't believe it is inherently of low value to add to the conversation.
>1) psychiatry is not objective science
There is a reasonable argument to be made that there is merit in being critical of what we do, and don't call, science. Richard Feynman talked about this fundamental, simple nature of the scientific method and the critical component being that it provides a testable hypothesis that can be observed and repeated, which shows us nature agrees with our theory[2]. As we all know, this is very hard to produce in psychology, despite their best efforts to use maths and stats to create studies which find strong correlations.
1-http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/schizophrenia-paran... 2-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KmimDq4cSU