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You're confusing psychiatry, which is a branch of medicine, with psychoanalysis. This article is about the former.

Psychiatry has become heavily focused on prescribing drugs for diagnoses based on the DSM, where only the presenting symptoms are taken into account and interaction with the patient after the initial diagnosis is minimal.



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