Categorizing Priorities in Mental Illness Treatments

The inappropriate naming and meaning of psychiatric diagnoses and treatments, as well as the lack of valid diagnostic criteria for mental illnesses, has led to significant ambiguity regarding the priorities of proposed treatment. Each patient is faced with a multitude of therapeutic options, while each mental health professional applies the treatment he knows as the best therapeutic option. The therapeutic options in the field of mental health come from a huge variety of known and unknown theoretical fields and are applied by a huge or even unknown number of so-called or self-proclaimed mental health specialists. The psychiatrist, having lost the privilege or obligation to follow the patient’s progress, has been reduced to a degraded role, often far from the obligations and capabilities of medicine. We support the need to prioritize treatments for mental illnesses, in accordance with the valid discoveries of neuroscience. Aiming at integrated medico-social care, psychiatry must return to its home, that is, to the field of medicine, while leaving non-medical interventions to non-medical professionals. We believe that the handling of psychiatric cases based on this path will lead patients to clear, effective and safe treatment, protecting them from unnecessary and sometimes harmful trials.