Dear Dodger, the entire system is rigged to one end and one end only, to sell the product.
Psychologists and psychiatrists work out of the same knowledge base, and refer their marks back and forth. The essential difference being that psychologists do not yet possess the prescription pad, and psychiatry, as pharmaceutical companies sales force, are working on Getting psychologists the pad.
There are currently 374 different psychiatric/psychological excuses to turn people into life long drug addicts, with drugs which cure, nothing.
Every psych course in America has already targeted 60 Million Americans as needing their drugs: Exactly the same percentage it started out with from the Psychs in Hitler’s Germany: 1 in 5, 20%.
You can make all the jokes you like about it but it isn’t a laughing matter when those drugs have little kids slashing their wrists and hanging themselves.
I agree with you wholesale.
No joke. Your earlier message was confused and/or confusing although this post makes more sense ...