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The Myths
of Biopsychiatry
Soliciting government
research funds through testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives
Committee in 2000, Steven Miran, Medical Director of the APA stated that,
�Scientific research over the last two decades has shown that severe mental
illness and addictive disorders are � diseases of the brain with a strong
genetic and biological basis.�
In contrast, Healy reports,
�There are increasing concerns among the clinical community that not only do
neuro scientific developments not reveal anything about the nature of psychiatric
disorders but in fact they distract from clinical research. � There has been
astonishing progress in the neurosciences but little or no progress in under
standing depression.�
Harvard�s Glenmullen says
that despite �absence of any verifiable diseases,� psychopharmacology
�has not hesitated to construct �disease models� for psychiatric diagnoses.
These models are hypothetical suggestions of what might be the underlying
physiology�for example, a serotonin imbalance.�
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