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Psychiatrists
Cannot Define Schizophrenia
Psychiatrists literally vote on what constitutes a mental illness or
disorder by raising their hands at a conference. This explains why they
cannot scientifically define what they treat. In the DSM-II, they
state: “Even if it had tried, the [APA] Committee could not establish
agreement about what this disorder is; it could only agree on what to
call it.”
Allen J. Frances, professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center
and Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, admitted: “There could arguably not
be a worse term than mental disorder to describe the conditions classified in
DSM-IV.” DSM-IV itself states that the term “mental disorder”
continues to appear in the volume “because we have not found an appropriate
substitute.”
Prof. Szasz further states: “Schizophrenia is defined so vaguely that, in actuality,
it is a term often applied to almost any kind of behavior of which the speaker
disapproves.”
Aside from schizophrenia, there are numerous other conditions or behaviors that
psychiatrists have defined as diseases and through which they make millions
of dollars in insurance reimbursement, government funds and profits from drug
sales.
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