Hello Daniel, First I wanted to Thank you for your beautiful existence, work, engagement, art and brilliant mind. Second, do you know the works of dr James Davies like “Cracked: Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good?” And third I would like to ask you if you agree with what I have written below: The naming issue - importance of language Psychology vs. psychiatry. List of medical specialties by nomenclature: endings: gr. -logía, eng. -logy “study of”: Audiology and Phoniatrics - fields of Otolaryngology Allergology Anesthesiology Cardiology Neurophysiology Dermatology Venereology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Gynecology Microbiology Neonatology Oncology Nephrology Neurology Ophthalomology Traumatology Pharmacology Pneumology Radiology Rheumatology Urology Proctology Immunology Podology and Podiatry Endings: gr. -iatreia eng. -iatry "treatment" Geriatrics - from Greek gēras ‘old age’ + iatros ‘doctor’, on the pattern of paediatric . There is a distinction between geriatrics and gerontology. Gerontology is the multidisciplinary study of the aging process, defined as the decline in organ function over time in the absence of injury, illness, environmental risks or behavioral risk factors. However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology. Pediatrics - Greek words: παῖς (pais "child") and ἰατρός (iatros "doctor, healer"). Obstetrics - From a Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”). Field combined with Gynecology Phoniatrics - Phoniatrics and audiology is one specialty within otolaryngology. Psychiatry Podiatry and podology - here is the same problem as with psychology and psychiatry Other endings and file names, e.g.: Surgery Emergency medicine Internal diseases, internal medicine Infectious diseases Orthopedics QUESTIONS: 1. Why has the name 'psychology' not been adopted by medicine as the name of the field? Why was another name invented for the field that deals with topics of the psyche? 2. Why don't we have ‘otolaryngiatry’, ‘endocrinoiatry’, ‘oncoiatrics’, ‘uroiatrics’ and so on? If we create the name ‘socioiatry’, will we create a branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of society? If we add “iatry” to geology, will we create the profession of an earth doctor? 3. What would happen if all psychology were transferred to the medical field? Is full medicalization of the psychic world the right move? I don’t think so, so... 4. For the logic of naming maybe we just transform psychiatry into a clinical psychology? Quote from Wikipedia: clinical psychology - a branch of applied psychology dealing with the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of mental and behavioral disorders, i.e. disturbances in the regulation of human relations with their environment. What about disturbances in the regulation of relations between the environment and the individual? Does this already belong to sociology, or maybe ‘sociatry’? 6. Why can't a psychologist or a psychotherapist write a sick leave from work? Why can't they have the ability to write a sick leave and I have to rely on the insight, judgment and will of a group of people I don't trust? The conclusions of Allen Frances - “the lead editor of the fourth edition of nt the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (universally known as the DSM-IV), the guy who wrote the book on mental illness, confessing that ‘these concepts are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the boundaries.’ ‘There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.’ Frances argued (in Gary Greenburg's 2013 book about the DSM-5, The Book of Woe) that these labels are still crucial to treatment, and he warned, ‘If you puncture that noble lie, you'll be doing a disservice to our patients . . . . A lot of false beliefs help people cope with life.’ Have Allen Frances just said that you can treat delusions with delusions? … https://www.wired.com/2010/12/ff-dsmv/ https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/01/acknowledge-psychiatry-religion/ In summary my main ideas are: 1. Transforming psychiatry into clinical psychology 2. Meeting of whole world's Psychological Associations with Psychiatric Associations and Patients Associations to conduct joint conversations about Mental World and Mental Health.