The term eclectic psychiatry refers to all practicing psychiatrists not found in one of the other categories. Sometimes a psychiatrist will cease to be a threat to others, while maintaining some of the characteristic though patterns of psychiatry. These are referred to as retired psychiatrists. There is usually a prodrome of eight or more years before full fedge psychiatry is manifest. However, some of the features of psychiatry may be seen even earlier, sometimes even at a young age.
Psychiatry is a very dangerous disorder, and often resistant to reason.
Further, the prognosis is quite poor, with the disorder usually lasting for decades, and recovery very rarely complete - often, the best recovery that can be hoped for is a remission into the retired state. Thus, in many cases, the best thing to do with psychiatrists is simply to avoid them. Return to the index page Sinclair, Jim. However, it should be remembered that most of these behaviors are not malicious, and in most cases the psychiatrist actually believes he or she is helping his or her victims.