tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post2623963516331375909..comments2024-03-28T22:29:05.434+00:00Comments on Relational psychiatry: Oh no, not another neurobiological theory of depressionDBDoublehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16140020984190294123noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-2357129246750273412010-10-06T19:44:18.441+01:002010-10-06T19:44:18.441+01:00Somewhere along the way, medicine forgot that the ...Somewhere along the way, medicine forgot that the brain is connected to the outside world. And so we how have the "it's all in the brain" as we once had "it's all in the unconscious." <br /><br />Hopefully, the growing field of social and affective neuroscience will get people to look beyond the grey matter and out to family, peers, and the social environment. They are all intimately linked in the etiology of depression. <br /><br />Bruce Wilson<br />theprimalmind.comBruce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07445797979784972815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-63540562767932358962010-09-30T15:16:10.613+01:002010-09-30T15:16:10.613+01:00Quite right - any physiological solution is barkin...Quite right - any physiological solution is barking up the wrong tree. Please don't misunderstand me though. Of course all behaviour, emotions and thoughts have their origin in the brain. It's just that we do not have to hypothesise a brain abnormality for depression.DBDoublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16140020984190294123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18614557.post-57054327829553348512010-09-30T14:29:09.584+01:002010-09-30T14:29:09.584+01:00Bearing in mind that there is a physiological basi...Bearing in mind that there is a physiological basis for everything the brain does or experiences, I would say that her statement is rather obvious and self-evident rather than just an opinion, but that the empirical method requires this kind of research-based evidence.<br /><br />Even a sociological basis for depression has to be filtered physiologically and will create physiological effects in the brain that are experienced phenomenologically as depression. Unless you are of the opinion that the mind is made of spiritual material and feelings occur in the soul. <br /><br />I fail to understand your dismissal of 'another neurobiological theory'. I mistrust anti-depressants too, but you seem to be saying that any proposed physiological solution is barking up the wrong tree.Richmond Strangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376208632631815558noreply@blogger.com