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Let’s Help Academia Destroy Itself

Pat2881 Wrote: Mar 04, 2013 10:17 AM
Rowdy, as a conservative who is just about finished with my PsyD (Doctor of Psychology), I would point out that there are only 2 states in the US where psychologists are allowed to prescribe medications. Psychiatrists prescribe the pills, and they are medical doctors with training in mental illness. Most of the psychotropic meds are prescribed by general practitioners who are not trained in mental illness at all. I agree, it is a bit off-putting to have to sit through some of the "diversity" courses in grad school. However, psychology is trying to move more toward science such as using neuroimaging studies to understand how the brain works. Talk therapy does help people if it is done properly and not to try to indoctrinate people.



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