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Some of his arguments make sense - but to say that he knows the history of psychiatry is kinda laughable...
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Mal, I'm curious why you think that Cruise knowing the history of the pschiatric discipline is possibly laughable?
His interviewer even mentioned that it was clear Cruise had done his homework. He may have taken courses or just read up on it's history. I hinted at a deeper (and not so rosy) history of pschiatry in my earlier post; how the discipline became mainstream and medically acceptable is publicly obtainable.
the short of it is that people who believed in such things as mental disorders eventually obtained their medical degrees and banked on the medical establishment's prestige to usher in their view of medicine.
psychiatrists are a relatively small group of professionals--not really fully accepted by the medical profession and not always looked up to by the pschology profession. But their medical degrees and substances that "work" (or ease the pain) are very enticing to the public.