A frequent question of many of my patients is, “What do you think, Doctor?” This is very often a difficult, almost always a complicated, question. It is also a question very few physicians, like all people, do not answer honestly. Medicine, psychiatry included, has devolved, like most quasi-scientific endeavors, into dogma over the past few years especially. This blog is an attempt at honesty, at inquiry, at a renewed call for critical thinking. In an odd age of pathological superficiality, of identity over authenticity, much has been asked of myself and my colleagues. Little is asked of our patients. As your treating antipsychiatrist I would ask you not to react, but to slow down, and think…
