Host dr. Dinah miller you write in your book shrink rap that psychiatry is a controversial medical field. Why . Guest well i think part of it is because of the history of psychiatry. Certainly its a field that has floundered with how to diagnose, how to treat, some of the treatments have not gone so well. For example the lobotomy phase that was very brief and i think part of the confusion with diagnosis that birthed some controversy is that with the exception of psychosis of people who hear voices or see visions or have delusional beliefs, that all the other symptoms blow into the rom of the usual Human Experience. Even the psychotic symptoms sometimes bore into the round of the usual Human Experience depending on the culture. So in some cultures you might be considered special if you have these issues and certainly somebody might say i hear a voice and its the voice of the dead relative calling me. We wouldnt consider that a psychosis. We would call that a carl terrell phenomenon a cu
Im craig melvin. Youre watching msnbc. Day five of the Government Shutdown, the house has just passed another piecemeal bill to pay furloughed workers once the government reopens. While theres still no end in sight to the stalemate, the blame game seems to be intensifying. Were live on capitol hill. Do you feel responsible for whats been happening to people . Look, i think it is indefensible that president obama and harry reid have forced a Government Shutdown. They shouldnt have shutdown the government. I didnt go around courting the media. And i certainly didnt go around trying to shut down the government. Were not going to let a federal Government Shutdown have an impact on our preparedness in the state of florida. So theres no light between us and the federal government. I am strongly, strongly against common core. It has increased my ability to reach more students. Tropical storm karen, the system weakens as it closes in on the gulf coast. Were live with the latest advisory releas
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