As we struggle with how to earn our way in the impartiality of the marketplace, we will probably discover skills and expertise and potential that we have long ignored but need to use. Our Ph.D. or Psy. D. does make a difference, that should begin to tell early in the new century. Similarly, the managed care emphasis on biological rather than information processing mechanisms should help in the long run. Information processing is just as biologically anchored as is neurotransmitter biochemistry, indeed is the manifest expression of and raison detre for it.
Information drives biochemistry, just as biochemistry underwrites information processing.
Mental and emotional problems fundamentally consist of faulty translation of incoming information into behavioral responses, such as to produce dysfunctional behavior. It should not take much playing of the exclusive medication game for the public to discover that much mental and emotional disorder is software, not hardware, driven. For such conditions, medication may oil the wheels but will not write the proper code. For many other conditions, medication will be unable to correct the biochemical aberration. A software work-around will be needed, and can often be provided by appropriate psychological help.