How refreshingly civilised. God save the Queen.
To me, everyone’s answers seem to show how bankrupt psychology is as a philosophical system. Because it proceeds by diagnosis, there is an imperative to classify the many and varied states of human consciousness. It is my belief that the manifestations of the human psyche are too manifold, too layered and too complex to be described by such a system. I think the whole field is ripe for revolution and revision. It could be an exciting process to live through – akin to being around when Freud made such a splash. My guess is that the disciplines will have to look outside of medicine altogether for inspiration.