My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of humility in understanding complex medical fields like psychiatry.
Thomas R. Insel highlights the need for humility in the pursuit of knowledge, especially in psychiatry, where a comprehensive understanding of the brain is essential. He suggests that rather than assuming we have all the answers, we should acknowledge our limitations and strive for deeper insights through clinical neuroscience, which will ultimately improve diagnostics and therapeutics in the field.
In practice
In a discussion about the future of medical science.
If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
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