Monday, September 03, 2012

No definition of a mental disorder

Psychiatrists and psychologists act as if there is something scientific about their diagnosis, but read this Natural News rant:
The medical cartel, one of a handful of evolving super-cartels that strive for more power every day, is rife with so much fraud it's astounding. In the psychiatric arena, for example, an open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.

THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.

And along with that:

ALL SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED, DESCRIBED, AND CATEGORIZED by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human behaviors.

Their findings are published in periodically updated editions of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), printed by the American Psychiatric Association.

For years, even psychiatrists have been blowing the whistle on this hazy crazy process of "research."

Of course, pharmaceutical companies, who manufacture highly toxic drugs to treat every one of these "disorders," are leading the charge to invent more and more mental-health categories, so they can sell more drugs and make more money.

But we have a mind-boggling twist. Under the radar, one of the great psychiatric stars, who has been out in front inventing mental disorders, went public. He blew the whistle on himself and his colleagues. And for 2 years, almost no one noticed.

His name is Dr. Allen Frances, and he made VERY interesting statements to Gary Greenberg, author of a Wired article: "Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness." (Dec.27, 2010).

Major media never picked up on the interview in any serious way. It never became a scandal.

Dr. Allen Frances is the man who, in 1994, headed up the project to write the latest edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-IV. This tome defines and labels and describes every official mental disorder. The DSM-IV eventually listed 297 of them.

In an April 19, 1994, New York Times piece, "Scientist At Work," Daniel Goleman called Frances "Perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America at the moment..."

Well, sure. If you're sculpting the entire canon of diagnosable mental disorders for your colleagues, for insurers, for the government, for Pharma (who will sell the drugs matched up to the 297 DSM-IV diagnoses), you're right up there in the pantheon.

Long after the DSM-IV had been put into print, Dr. Frances talked to Wired's Greenberg and said the following:

"There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it."
Here is the 2010 Wired article, if you want to check the context of the quote.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

In an April 19, 1994, New York Times piece, "Scientist At Work," Daniel Goleman called Frances "Perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America at the moment..."

So now you're going to rely on a Jewish, N.Y. Times writer's article about psychiatry, after all you've written about Jews, N.Y. Times writers and the N.Y. Times ?

George said...

I quote the NY Times quite often on this blog. I think that it is the best American newspaper. If it says that someone is a powerful psychiatrist, then he is probably a powerful psychiatrist.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the New York Times should more accurately be called The "Jew York Times?"

George said...

I also watch MSNBC and Fox News TV. Yes, there could be bias.

Anonymous said...

Here's what you said the day before..

if the Christian pro-family groups are hate groups, then surely the NY Times is a much bigger hate group. It recently published two anti-dad articles that misrepresented the research to draw anti-dad conclusions. I criticized one of the articles here.

And...

"The NY Times caters to its Jewish readers."

Try making up your mind.

George said...

In there some contradiction between those statements?

Anonymous said...

You described the N.Y. Times as the best newspaper in the U.S., right ?

George said...

I often read the NY Times even tho it is written for NY liberals.

Anonymous said...

And the best newspaper in the U.S. is one that is written by Jews for Jews, and is liberal, right ?

George said...

The system seems to have lost a message saying; "And the best newspaper in the U.S. is one that is written by Jews for Jews, and is liberal, right ?"

I don't know what you are getting at. I suggest listening to Rush Limbaugh for some more conservative views.