Thomas Insel, in an interview for the Boston Globe, discusses the historical tension within psychiatry about “being medical,” saying “Freud himself was apoplectic about the idea that psychoanalysis was going to be restricted to physicians [in the United States] … I don’t know if it [the answer to mental health problems] will be drugs. It may be some other kind of intervention.”
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