Plumbing, philosophy and psychiatry.

CONCLUSIONS: Psychiatry stands on a complex of ideas and concepts that cannot be reduced to a satisfying or unifying underlying conceptual system or idea. The ideas and concepts have been patched together ad hoc and function until things go wrong. Growing professional dispute and public disquiet indicates that things are going wrong. I suggest that professional philosophers need to be engaged in the necessary infrastructure repairs.
PMID: 27194778 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - May 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rosenman S Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research