Three videos were found on the extremely excessive counter-psychiatry propaganda movement characterizing the opposition to psychiatry.

 

Even though these videos are exceedingly tendentious, - still they raise important questions about our diagnostic system, Allegation that can not be overlooked, these are:

1 - There is no rational science for psychiatry

2 - Diagnostic systems based on consensus (vote) instead of science

3 - No real cure in psychiatry

 

First see the movies and then lets try to go step by step and see what can be improved using the knowledge we have today (2007) about how mental disorders could originate from the brain organization and its interactions with environmental (psychosocial and other) demands.

 

See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy79C0v8elE&mode=related&search=

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7GmeSAxXo&mode=related&search=

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30iwhEw9ho

 

In my opinion the first thing is to do away with a descriptive diagnostic system. But this immediately raises the question of the alternative.

 

The argument that there is no alternative because the etiologies (the causes) of mental disorders are not known is off course correct.

 

So we are left with hypothesis on which to try an alternative psychiatric diagnostic system.

 

This raises the question, is a hypothetical (not yet proven) approximated diagnostic system useful in these circumstances?

 

I believe that if a novel hypothetical diagnostic system for psychiatry fulfils three criteria it can justify itself.

 

These are:

 

1) - It is brain-related, - reconceptualizing mental disorders as disorders to the normal brain organization, - for example a disorder to neural network connectivity balance.

 

2) - It is developed in a – testable prediction manner – as to serve both as a pointer for effective research on the causes of the disorders, - as well as validable medical etiological diagnosis          

 

3)- It offers scientific rational for planning treatments based on strategies that are brain-related interventions to cure mental disorders, for example designing a brain-pacemaker to reoptimize connectivity imbalances in the brain.

 

A detailed explanation of such a system can be found at this website, see http://neuroanalysis.googlepages.com/home especially in the books links ‘Brain dynamics’ ‘Optimizers 2050’ and ‘Neuroanalysis’

 

You are invited to the discussion forums on the subject at:

http://theoreticalpsychaitry.nexo.com/

 

and:

http://groups.google.com/group/Optimizers?lnk=gcimv