IMPORTANT FACTS

1. In 1865, Zurich psychiatrist Wilhelm Griesinger falsely claimed that all mental problems must be diseases of the brain. Undeterred by the absence of proof to this day, psychiatry built a multi-billion dollar empire on this false science.

2. In the late 1800s, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was first to label and codify human behavior as “disorders” while acknowledging that psychiatry had no effective treatments or cures.

3. In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contained only three “disorders” for infants or children. By 1980, there was a nearly ten-fold increase in the number of child disorders.

4. In 1987, “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD) was literally voted into existence by APA committee members and enshrined in the DSM. Within a year, 500,000 children in America alone were diagnosed with it.

5. 17 million schoolchildren worldwide have now been diagnosed with so-called mental disorders and prescribed cocaine-like stimulants and powerful antidepressants as treatment.

The creation of bogus learning disorders as listed in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) enables psychiatrists to label and drug millions of children at great profit.

CHAPTER TWO Inventing Psychiatric ‘Diagnoses’

Until the 1800s, the notion of the “lunatic” being sick was a foreign one. He was strange in his behavior, perhaps destructive, but explanations as to why did not necessarily center on a physical malfunction.

In 1865, however, Zurich psychiatrist Wilhelm Griesinger claimed that since most of the nerve coverage was in the brain, all mental problems must be diseases of the brain. Undeterred by the absence of proof to this day, psychiatry has since industriously built a multi-billion dollar empire with no more than an empty deck of cards.

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