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… Read More »4. ‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests
1. The beginning of ‘modern’ psychiatry – a descent into hell
We find a subject based on speculation, unable to establish causes of mental illness and whose primary solution is to murder the very people it should be caring for.
Another ECT myth debunked, again
A 2022 study finds no protection against suicide 30 days after ECT treatment and worse, a 30% increased risk of suicide in the following year.
Restraints & Solitary Confinement
Mental American Monster “In this part of the true horror, Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry, nineteenth century justifications of the use of… Read More »Restraints & Solitary Confinement
And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?
An examination of two countries that are among the highest psychiatric drug use per capita in the world finds that both have long statistical trends of increased suicides.
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.
Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide
Despite attempts to explain away shocking outcomes, the bottom line is that persons receiving psychiatric interventions were found to more likely commit suicide
Cause of Death: Unknown – Big Pharma & the selling of mental illness
Award winning doc exposing the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry and how it created an epidemic of mental illness.
Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives
When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.
Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the… Read More »Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
ECT: Is this the best you can do?
It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that… Read More »ECT: Is this the best you can do?