PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS The Chemical Imbalance Lie

“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.” — Dr. Ron Leifer, New York psychiatrist

Reputable physicians agree that for a disease to be accurately diagnosed and treated, there must be a tangible, objective, physical abnormality that can be determined through tests such as, but not limited to, blood or urine, X-ray, brain scan or biopsy. It is the consensus of many medical professionals that, contrary to psychiatric assertion, no scientific evidence exists that would prove that “mental disorders” are “brain-based diseases” or that a chemical imbalance in the brain is responsible.

In his 1998 book Blaming The Brain, biopsychologist Elliot S. Valenstein wrote, “Contrary to what is claimed, no biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental patients.” He also stated that this theory is held onto because it is “useful in promoting drug treatment.”

In 2001, Ty C. Colbert, Ph.D., author of Rape of the Soul: How the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatry Has Failed Its Patients , said, “We know that the chemical imbalance model for mental illness has never been scientifically proven.”

In 2003, Australian psychologist Philip Owen warned: “The claim is continually made that the drugs repair chemical imbalances in the brain. This claim is false. It is still not possible to measure the exact levels of neurotransmitters in specific synapses [a place at which a nerve impulse passes from one nerve cell to another]. How, then, is it possible to make claims about chemical imbalances?”

BOGUS BRAIN THEORY: Presented in countless illustrations in popular magazines, the brain has been dissected and labeled and analyzed while assailing the public with the latest theory of what is wrong with the brain. What is lacking, as with all psychiatric theory, is scientific fact. As Dr. Elliot Valenstein explained, “There are no tests available for assessing the chemical status of a living person’s brain.”

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