05-13-2024, 03:50 AM
(05-13-2024, 03:04 AM)Maxmars Wrote: Excellent topic!
I have to admit, this one feel extra 'dark' to me. The idea of a confidence games being played on patients always creeps me out... it feels no longer wise to consider that all doctors are honorable healers 'by default.' Sad that.
Very sad indeed mate and probably no accident that quackademics from the Rockefeller's 'Hastings Centre' and the WEF's 'Future of Health Care Committee' are now openly advocating for the banning of the hippocratic oath (amongst other things).
Have to say that speech by psychologist Jeffrey Schaler was quite a refreshing one and I do have respect for the field of 'psychology' - anyway there are some relevant statements below made by professionals regarding 'psychiatry' and perhaps the last one sums things up the best.
Quote:• "'Mental illness’ is terribly misleading because the ‘mental disorders’ we diagnose are no more than descriptions of what clinicians observe people do or say, not at all well established diseases
Statement of Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman, 2015
• “While DSM has been described as a ‘Bible’ for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary…. The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever.”
Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health
• “There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.” “There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bull—. I mean, you just can’t define it.”
Allen Frances, Psychiatrist and former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman
• “Virtually anyone at any given time can meet the criteria for bipolar disorder or ADHD. Anyone. And the problem is everyone diagnosed with even one of these ‘illnesses’ triggers the pill dispenser.”
Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, Psychiatrist
• “Despite more than two hundred years of intensive research, no commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorders have proven to be either genetic or biological in origin, including schizophrenia, major depression, manic-depressive disorder, the various anxiety disorders, and childhood disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity. At present there are no known biochemical imbalances in the brain of typical psychiatric patients—until they are given psychiatric drugs.”
Peter Breggin, Psychiatrist
• "While there has been “no shortage of alleged biochemical explanations for psychiatric conditions…not one has been proven. Quite the contrary. In every instance where such an imbalance was thought to have been found, it was later proven false.”
Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist
• “The theories are held on to not only because there is nothing else to take their place, but also because they are useful in promoting drug treatment.”
Dr. Elliott Valenstein Ph.D., author of Blaming the Brain
• “There is no blood or other biological test to ascertain the presence or absence of a mental illness, as there is for most bodily diseases. If such a test were developed … then the condition would cease to be a mental illness and would be classified, instead, as a symptom of a bodily disease.”
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York University Medical School, Syracuse
• “We do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no data to indicate ADHD is due to a brain malfunction.”
Final statement of the panel from the National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on ADHD
• "DSM IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document. To its credit it says so — although its brief apologia is rarely noted. DSM IV has become a bible and a money making best seller — its major failings notwithstanding. It confines and defines practice, some take it seriously, others more realistically. It is the way to get paid. Diagnostic reliability is easy to attain for research projects. The issue is what do the categories tell us? Do they in fact accurately represent the person with a problem? They don’t, and can’t, because there are no external validating criteria for psychiatric diagnoses.”
Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, former Chief of NIMH’s Center for Studies of Schizophrenia, head of Schizophrenia Research, National Institute of Mental health
• “The way things get into the DSM is not based on blood test or brain scan or physical findings. It’s based on descriptions of behavior. And that’s what the whole psychiatry system is.”
Dr Colin Ross, Psychiatrist
• “Psychiatry has never been driven by science. They have no biological or genetic basis for these illnesses and the National Institutes of Mental Health are totally committed to the pharmacological line. … There is a great deal of scientific evidence that stimulants cause brain damage with long-term use, yet there is no evidence that these mental illnesses, such as ADHD, exist.”
Peter Breggin, Psychiatrist
• “No claim for a gene for a psychiatric condition has stood the test of time, in spite of popular misinformation.”
Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist
• “In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.”
Peter Breggin, Psychiatrist
• “…modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness…Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”
Dr. David Kaiser, Psychiatrist
• “There’s no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?”
Dr. Ron Leifer, Psychiatrist
• “No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That’s not what diseases are. Diseases are malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brain. Typhoid fever is a disease. Spring fever is not a disease; it is a figure of speech, a metaphoric disease. All mental diseases are metaphoric diseases, misrepresented as real diseases and mistaken for real diseases.”
Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
• “It has occurred to me with forcible irony that psychiatry has quite literally lost its mind, and along with it the minds of the patients they are presumably supposed to care for.”— David Kaiser, Psychiatrist
• “DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.”— Loren Mosher, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
• “All psychiatrists have in common that when they are caught on camera or on microphone, they cower and admit that there are no such things as chemical imbalances/diseases, or examinations or tests for them. What they do in practice, lying in every instance, abrogating [revoking] the informed consent right of every patient and poisoning them in the name of ‘treatment’ is nothing short of criminal.”
Dr. Fred Baughman Jr., Pediatric Neurologist
• “Psychiatry [makes]… unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.”
Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist
• "In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”
Dr. Thomas Dorman, internist and member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK
• “I believe, until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as medical ‘diagnoses’ but also have the potential to do great harm—particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms, or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.”
Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist
• “The way things get into the DSM is not based on blood test or brain scan or physical findings. It’s based on descriptions of behavior. And that’s what the whole psychiatry system is.
Dr. Colin Ross, psychiatrist
• “No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.”
Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion
• “Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV [and ICD-10] are terms arrived at through peer consensus."
Tana Dineen Ph.D., psychologist
• “It’s not science. It’s politics and economics. That’s what psychiatry is: politics and economics. Behavior control, it is not science, it is not medicine."
Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Cheers.
