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Psychiatry and the scientific fallacy

Author(s) -

Saraga Michael,

Stiefel Friedrich

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

acta psychiatrica scandinavica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1600-0447

pISSN - 0001-690X

DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2011.01708.x

Subject(s) - liaison psychiatry , general hospital , service (business) , citation , medicine , psychiatry , library science , psychology , family medicine , computer science , economy , economics

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is now a science. So is psychiatry: DSM-III emphasized diagnostic reliability as the condition for scientific psychiatry; randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses are the gold standard to measure therapeutic effects; psychopathology evolved into a complex statistical discipline; psychiatric disorders are investigated by neuroscientists; and, since the 1990s, psychiatrists use newgeneration antidepressants and antipsychotics. A scientific nosology, complex tools, rigorous statistics and modern, sophisticated, receptor-specific drugs – this is the current Zeitgeist: psychiatry is finally leaving the Freudian wars of the past and joining up with science.

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