psych

Placebos can only affect psych/neuro (and possibly hormonal) conditions, which is the brain is biologically capable of changing things.

But in my, again limited, experience, the state of inpatient psych treatment in the US is terrible, especially given the cost.

The best my psych can do is something that makes the episodes less intense, but they still happen.

His victims used the same word although it's certainly a pop psych term & that's expected.

A psych ward is essentially a jail; not an unfashionably appointed hotel as the author suggests.

Kind of a mysterious behavior, though it reeks of evo-psych tribal status dynamics stuff.

Far as sociopath vs psychopath, psychologists tell me they're both mostly pop-psych terms with meanings that vary due to who you're talking to.

The psych ward is there to get you stabilized and get attention quickly.

If you want anecdotal evidence that something is deeply wrong with our health care system, try spending a week in a psych ward.

But it is all we have right now, and spending time in the psych ward is still better than harming yourself.

Perhaps she is in a psych hospital, or homeless.

Yet, without being a sociology/psych major, I think this is a normal thing that should be recognized and hit head on by any reformists.

These guys _really_ know what they are doing - and the "psych out" is intentional - nothing personal.

I'm interested as well in alternative ways to do this kind of thing which are more "psych friendly" though I don't have any warm leads at the moment.

I have never seen a single psych drug, the PI sheet for which did not begin, "The exact mechanism of action is unknown" (or words to that effect).

I am likely wrong on exact numbers, but studies are well-known enough to be quoted in "Fooled by Randomness", "Predictably Irrational" and some other pop-psych titles.