On the 3rd Anniversary of the Clinic Opening

Medical care is often expected to be a reliable technique for saving lives, yet in reality it is a profoundly human and uncertain practice.

In psychiatry especially, treatment depends not only on diagnostic accuracy but also on the relationship between patient and clinician. As a result, a physician’s age, experience, values, and life history can all influence clinical practice. Because psychiatrists themselves live within finite time, they cannot take responsibility for an entire patient’s life, but only for support at a given moment.

This essay uses clinical experience in psychiatry as a starting point to examine the limits of the medical profession and the meaning of realistic support within it.

You can read the director’s message for our third anniversary here.