What physical evidence is required for a psychiatrist to support their diagnosis?
lol, yeah I see what you're trying here... A psychiatrist isn't exactly a plumber, his job's going to be a little more subtle, and no, you aren't going to be able to improvise yourself as one over the weekend, even if you think of yourself as smart enough, sorry
But to answer your question, generally speaking, the same material evidence that a cop needs to know if you're lying or not.
Your answers, reactions, behavior, when he interacts with you, your familial background... That's not exactly "material"... https://youtu.be/S-4nzmdYQTA?t=64
Heresy. So factually NOT a science
Each year a guild of elites get together and write a manual for diagnosis that they then use as evidence to diagnose patients.
Circular reasoning.
I study humans and human behavior as a passionate hobby. Just as scientific as psychiatrists but without their biases and mumbo jumbo because to talk up a chosen profession is to be human
Heresy. So factually NOT a science
Whatever. Psychiatry is a branch of medicine by definition it is not a natural science like physics or biology, duh!
Just like math btw, it's not a natural science. Does that render math as heresy? Rhetorical question...
Natural science tests its propositions against empirical measurements. Any theory in natural science that does not pass this test is discarded.
Mathematics, in contrast, is non-empirical. Its propositions are tested only against its own axioms, definitions, and rules of inference. It is independent of the empirical world.
Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidean geometry are both valid mathematical systems. And yet physicists have discovered that only one of them is an accurate model of the empirical world...
Does that render math as "heresy" or "unscientific", dumbo?
I study humans and human behavior as a passionate hobby.
Yeah I get that you love going to the pub over the weekend, but this has nothing to do with medical science
Just as scientific as psychiatrists but without their biases and mumbo jumbo because to talk up a chosen profession is to be human
"mumbo jumbo"... <- You obviously have no idea what you're dealing with... Hence why you call it "numbo jumbo"...
Again, psychiatry is not a hobby you can improvise over the weekend with your hammer like plumbing or carpentry, get over it already
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