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www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freud-fluoxetine/201912/why-do-we-separate-psychiatry-and-neurology

…Is that the question ?

A short commentary on the problem between neurology and psychiatry.

I tend to see that debate between people who are trying to help humanity from a pure idealism into the actual individual. That the people who are studying the brain, and the people who are studying behavior, are really just coming up with theories to explain their empirical givens. And the debate is between those two theoretical ideals, rather than a debate about actual real life mental situations..

However,

There is a further point of contention between those “empirical science” approaches to helping with mental issues, and those practitioners called counselors who actually attempt to help the individual people in reality. This can be described as the difference between pure idealistic theory and practical theoretical actuality.

But that discussion is for another post. x

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