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IMPORTANT
FACTS
1. Psychiatry’s Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM) currently contains 374
disorders whose subjectivity would cause anyone to be labeled “mentally ill”
and drugged.
2. Psychiatrists have
been unable to establish agreement on what schizophrenia is, only what to call
it.
3. “Schizophrenia,” “bipolar,”
and all psychiatric labels have only one purpose: to make psychiatry millions
in insurance reimbursement, government funds and profits from drug sales.
4. The cornerstone of
psychiatry’s disease model today is the concept that a brain-based, chemical
imbalance underlies mental disease. As with all of psychiatry’s disease models,
this theory has been thoroughly discredited by researchers.
CHAPTER
TWO Diagnostic Deceit and Betrayal
As a substitute for mental healing, the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
developed the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM),
a text that lists 374 supposed mental disorders. Its diagnostic criteria are
so vague, subjective and expansive that there is possibly not one person alive
today who, using this as the standard, would escape being labeled mentally ill.
Of course, that makes for a whole lot more mental ill-health business
for psychiatrists.
Meanwhile, psychiatrists not only admit that they have no idea of what causes
these supposed “diseases,” they have no scientifically validated proof whatsoever
that they even exist as discrete physical illnesses.
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Thomas Szasz says: “The primary function and
goal of the DSM is to lend credibility to the claim that certain behaviors,
or more correctly, misbehaviors, are mental disorders and that such disorders
are, therefore, medical diseases. Thus, pathological gambling enjoys the same
status as myocardial infarction [blood clot in heart artery].”
Patients are betrayed when told their emotional problems are genetically or
biologically based. Elliot Valenstein, Ph.D., says that “while patients may
be relieved to be told that they have a ‘physical disease,’ they may adopt a
passive role in their own recovery, becoming completely dependent on a physical
treatment to remedy their condition.”
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