Defining Psychiatry

Freeman | July 1, 2007| | Copyright

In the United States today everyone considers himself an expert on psychiatry, especially in the aftermath of a mass murder by a "deranged madman." Yet academically and legally qualified experts in the field keep telling us that they cannot even define psychiatry.

In 1886 Emil Kraepelin, the undisputed founder of modern psychiatry as a medical specialty and science, declared: "Our science has not arrived at a consensus on even its most fundamental principles, let alone on appropriate ends or even on the means to those ends." Eighty years later, the encyclopedic American Handbook of Psychiatry ...

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