I hate verbal sloppiness. My hair stands on end when I read things like, “She was undergoing intensive psychoanalysis with a psychiatrist who prescribed her Thorazine and Paxil.”
Psychoanalysts don’t prescribe. They are not MDs and don’t have scrip pads. And psychiatrists don’t psychoanalyze because psychoanalysis is based on the rejection of psychiatry. The statement makes as much sense as saying that a homeopath performed brain surgery after administering teeth cleaning.
One can either figure all this out – because it’s not that hard – or, alternatively, avoid writing a 350-page book on the subject of mental health treatments.
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