“After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association.”
A recent study of almost 127,000 youths who were subject to Medicaid from a single US state found from 2015 to 2020 the rate of psychotropic polypharmacy had increased to 4.6% – affecting more than 5,800 individuals.
All through psychiatry’s history there have been attempts to manipulate and control aspects of society way beyond any clinical address and based solely on the opinions of psychiatrists and others who control the subject.
An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation.
For decades, psychiatry in collusion with pharmaceutical companies and to a lesser degree device manufacturers, has turned the subject of mental health into a for-profit free-for-all where patients have become repeat customers.
Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.
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Dr. Thomas Szasz is co-founder of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) a psychiatric/mental health watchdog. He is a professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, author… Read More »CCHR co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus