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Plenty.

Of course, I believe in progress and think that psychpharmacology will make great advances in the coming centuries. But currently we know very little about how or why brain chemistry goes out of balance, and treating your brain like a "soup that may need a little more salt or a little more pepper" to taste good sounds to me hopelessly naive.

Suppressing symptoms is not curative. If you get syphilis you take antibiotics for a week and you're cured. Where are the psych meds you take for a week and are cured? Is Paxil pain management or disease management? Are symptoms suppressed or mental health achieved? Where is the "medical model"?? A medical model circa 1328, perhaps.

Asking most laymen why their meds work is like asking a muppet to explain quantum mechanics. But it's not nearly as horrifying as watching the blank look that spreads over their face when you ask them what school of psychology their shrink subscribes to.