Dear Mr Korg, Fair enough, and thank you for your reply, but I suppose what concerned me was that there might in your remarks have been an unstated bias in favour of psychiatry and against psychology and psychotherapy. This latter does indeed seem evident in your reply to Mr Borda where you say: As I'm sure you know, a psychiatrist, after taking his MD, spends several years interning and specializing in his specialty before he is licensed to practice. Of course, there are all sorts of "therapists" with Ph D. degrees in psychology (or less) who run around the landscape trying to make people feel better. I suppose I'd like to know why you think the interning and specializing done by psychiatrists makes their treatment preferable to qualified psychologists 'who run around' etc. Surely they do different things, according to their training, and surely there is a clear bias against psychology in your remarks here. Many would think that psychiatrists, while good at diagnosing and treating chemical imbalances requiring drug treatment, are far worse than psychologists at treating behavioural problems through counselling - psychoanalysis remaining the treatment of choice for deep-rooted personality disorders. Sincerely, Richard Read. >Dear Mr. Read: > I don't know what you have made of my "tone," but I was simply >warning that competent psychiatric diagnoses should be made only by those >trained to do it. Note the various and differing speculations of the >postings that followed Mr. Redman's comment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Richard Read Email [log in to unmask] Senior Lecturer School of Architecture and Fine Arts The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6009 Tel +61 8 9380 2140 Australia Fax 8 9380 1082