Freud vs. God Quotes

“[N]eurobiology will never be the bridge to the unconscious, for neurobiology explains at a different level from psychology.
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One approach that retains the knowledge of biological mechanisms yet does not assume a reductionistic approach is supervenience. Properties of one kind, such as consciousness, supervene on properties of another kind, such as neurochemical transmission [.] The underlying property must be there, but the supervening property cannot be reduced to the underlying property. Therefore different avenues of inquiry into the thoughts and behaviors of mankind are necessary if we are to avoid the deterministic, and frankly, depressing limits of a purely materialistic approach.”
― Dan G. Blazer, Freud vs. God

“Psychiatrists should take the lead in expressing caution about solving emotional angst by taking a pill. Doctors of the soul will distinguish between the proper use of medication for treating psychiatric disorders and the inappropriate desire to cure social and existential pain with a pill.”
― Dan G. Blazer, Freud vs. God

“Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torey proposed that psychotherapy is little more than a culturally specific healing ritual, similar to that of folk healers in primitive cultures.”
― Dan G. Blazer, Freud vs. God

“[E]motional suffering cannot be disowned from its sociocultural context. In other words, relationships are critical to virtually every psychiatric illness and its treatment. Those relationships stretch far beyond the therapist-patient relationship.”
― Dan G. Blazer, Freud vs. God