Letter of Resignation from the American Psychiatric Association – Loren Mosher
…the most important part of a resident’s curriculum is the art and quasi-science of dealing drugs, i.e., prescription writing.
DSM
Multiple, concurrent psychotropics prescribed for children increasing in the USA
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.
5. No psychiatry, you can’t take over the world
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.
Saving normal with Allen Frances, MD – Psychiatric diagnostic overreach.
Psychiatrist Allen Frances, from the DSM-IV task force and later wrote Saving Normal, discusses psychiatry’s slide into diagnostic overreach.
3. Psychiatry’s lack of science masked by pharmaceuticals
The chance ‘discovery’ of psychotropic drugs saved psychiatry from oblivion by masking the subject’s lack of scientific foundation.
4. ‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests
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 DSM – just a bunch of opinions
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.
Commercial interests have captured mental health
Is there anything not influenced by money? To answer this question, if there is anything, it isn’t very important. Commercial interests, Big Pharma, and device… Read More »Commercial interests have captured mental health
Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed
Dr JAMES DAVIES. Why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in the 1960s, to around 370 today? Why… Read More »Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed
The Origins of the DSM
DR JAMES DAVIES Author, anthropologist and psychotherapist, Dr. James Davies describes the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the… Read More »The Origins of the DSM
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam
An elaborate pseudoscientific sham…It’s 943 pages long and lists out 374 mental “disorders.”It is the basis for the listing of mental disorders in the International… Read More »Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam
CCHR co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
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