Psychologists and Psychiatrists

            Psychologists don’t know any more about the minds of their fellows than anyone else.  In fact, they may know less, because their own minds are encumbered with a bunch of irrelevant data on the one hand, or with wild, unverified theories on the other.  Rare indeed are the psychologists who have simply looked.

            Then there is the question of goals.  The psychiatrist in particular has as his aim the rendering of the patient more quiet or more manageable.  Such an aim may be valued by government, who want their respective populaces less troublesome.  But rendering a patient more controllable, more pleasant, more calm, more obedient – indeed, rendering him anything – is hardly in the best interest of the patient himself.