What causes mental disorders...Brain chemistry? Genetics? or Environment?

[mopinko]

8. just seems to me that we already milked that cow.

from freud on down, that has already been the focus.
obviously treatment has to have focus on what is/has been happening to a person. and obviously a more just world would result in fewer traumas.
but the failures of that approach are already legion.

let me try it this way- it seems to me that they are talking more about prevention than treatment. a valid point. a sticky wicket, for sure.

but i think the real promise for treatment is in understanding just how the brain works and why it sometimes doesnt. not necessarily talking about pharma. it may well reveal which talk therapies work, and which just ingrain and magnify traumas of the past. (which i think some do. )
if it turns out that yoga and meditation or wheat grass cocktails or cannabis are useful treatments, cool.
but we wont know any of that till we have a much stronger understanding of the brain and the mind.