After reading the last chapter of the book, Demystifying Psychiatry, I felt so much better about where psychiatry might be when my kids are my age. Perhaps, if either is ever diagnosed with a mental illnesses, there will be more targeted treatments, and …
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I notice four of the five (the first four) all deal with biomedical paradigms—I believe psychiatry will be rejuvenated if and only if it jettisons much of the (pseudo)scientific garb in which it is currently cloaked…easier said than done. (Aside, of course, from actually proving things like chemical imbalances, genetic vulnerabilities and so on, which I don’t believe will ever happen.)
The fifth isn’t necessarily that far away, especially with the possibility of dimensional diagnoses.
“Over the next 50 to 100 years, neuroscience research will lead scientists to understand in exquisite detail how humans process information, express and regulate emotions, and motivate themselves to achieve specific goals.”
50 to 100 years? Based on what?
I think you vastly underestimate the advances in imaging technology, genetics and epidemiological data combined with computational neuroscience.
These 3 things are moving at a logarithmic scale and their main focus in humans is the brain. Acting in concert, the impact is already being seen as well as promises of what is to come. Neurology has reaped the benefits and psychiatry will be following in the next 2 decades. The teens will be amazing and the 20s even more so.