Wisdom in Bedlam, by Robert Royal

A doctor who came to one of my lectures recently told me of a problem within the medical profession: with some noble exceptions, the general practitioners know less and less about almost everything, and the specialists know more and more about almost nothing. (He’s a specialist himself.) I don’t know if this is broadly true in medicine. I do know that it seems to describe a great deal about what goes on in the modern world.

For instance, Sigmund Freud was once believed to have finally exposed the truth about the depths of the human psyche. From what I hear, it seems that psychiatrists and psychologists have mostly moved on – to what, it’s difficult to say, other than endless talking and psychoactive drugs. Yet whatever else you might say about Freud, at least he approached things through (relatively) human pathways: ancient mythologies like Oedipus, and solid Latin terms like ego, id, and superego. He probably would have laughed himself silly over terms like “sex assigned at birth,” which is accepted now even by the American Medical Association. …

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