Marginalized by the field of medicine because of its lack of scientific credentials, psychiatry today works hard to create an apparent scientific image for its diagnostic system, the DSM , and the use of prescription psychiatric drugs.

In 1998, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced a “Mental Disorders in Primary Care” kit that was distributed internationally to make it “easier” for primary care physicians to diagnose mental illness. Based on the DSM-IV and ICD-10 , the kit was designed to garner more business for the mental health system and involved doctors checking off a list of patient symptoms to “diagnose” a mental disorder. They would also act as referral agents to psychiatrists who would treat the more “serious” disorders.

As a result of such marketing efforts, general practitioners now prescribe up to 80% of antidepressants.

Peter Tyrer, professor of community psychiatry at Imperial College, London, stated in 2003: “I always say that
DSM stands for the Diagnosis of Simple Minds; it provides what Americans [psychiatrists] call ‘operational criteria’ for the diagnosis of conditions. Basically, if you have a certain quota then you have the condition. It has led to a tickbox mentality. Well, you are a bad clinician if you have to do that. Doctors should be finding out about the person.”

Doctors are certainly finding out about the sham of psychiatry and its diagnostic invention:

In April 2003, in a Psychiatric Times article entitled, “Dump the DSM ,” psychiatrist Paul Genova said
that psychiatric practice is governed by a diagnostic system that “is a laughingstock for the other medical specialties.”

J. Allan Hobson and Jonathan A. Leonard, authors of Out of Its Mind, Psychiatry in Crisis, A Call for Reform, stated: “… DSM-IV’s authoritative status and detailed nature tends to promote the idea that rote diagnosis and pill-pushing are acceptable.”

“Many of the new ‘sufferings of the soul,’” which is how Swiss psychiatrist Asmus Finzen tags many of the DSM “disorders,” are nothing more than normal ups and downs in life. Being isolated gets inflated to “antisocial.” Natural sadness has also been classified in psychiatry as an “adaptation disorder.”

It is vital that medical practitioners universally reject the DSM diagnostic system as a pseudo-medi- cine and as a danger to their patients.

“These people have no ethics at all. They’re morally bankrupt. They’re like the grave robbers in old England who provided cadavers for the medical schools.”
— Paul McDevitt, Massachusetts counselor speaking about mental health fraud, 1993

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