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that treat the cause rather than the symptoms
Don't get your hopes up too high. This would be opposite of our current approach. Unless a false/arbitrary cause can be attached to the illness, like white supremacy or patriarchy.
Even though it's a radical opinion. People with personality disorders are still people. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could cure personality disorders? It would help our entire society have stronger families, more productive workplaces, and less crazy people in politics.
The mistake you’re making is assuming that psychotherapy/psychiatry is a real medical discipline or objective science. It isnt. Its a religion. Basically shamanism.
You might just as well ask “Wouldn’t it be great is we eliminated all sinful behavior?” Im sure many christians hoped to establish a utopian society this way in the past.
Its a will o the wisp. Determination of “pathological behavior” isnt objective. It depends on the values of the society. People that violate social norms or even people that experience a lack of success in society are deemed to suffer from some personality disorder or autism or Depression. None of these “conditions” can be explained well as a physiological disease. Most of this shit is just normal variation within a population.
For example blacks have a high rate of psychopathy/sociopathy on these tests. How can you “cure” this? You cant without eugenic intervention. Which causes as many problems as it solves.
I agree that psychology is not always based in science. a lot of people suffer because they were misdiagnosed via pseudoscience tradition. Clinical psychology is based in science. Truth is that we don't have cures to mental health issues because we've allowed pseudoscience to exist. The more we demand quantitative data for mental health the more pressure they'll feel to innovate and fix.-hopefully-
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