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Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims, 2001
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"Essential reading for mental health patients and their families."
Dr. Tana Dineen
Dr. Dineen is a licensed psychologist Canada. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree (1969) from McGill University, and a Masters (1971) and Doctoral Degree (1975) from the University of Saskatchewan. She is a Full Member of the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association.
For four years, starting in 1977, she worked as Treatment Director of a large psychiatric facility, establishing specialized programs, including an assessment ward for the investigation of complex diagnostic questions and an intensive treatment ward for young schizophrenics, which won an American Psychiatric Association prize for innovative programming
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About the book:
"When I first sat down to write Manufacturing victims, it was with a
sense of outrage; the book was intended to give meat for arguments and to
inspire social action." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p
283)
"When Manufacturing Victims was first released in 1996, it drew
volatile reactions from within the Psychology industry. It was attacked as
"a conspiracy book" and called "the Ripley's Believe It Or Not of
Psychology." Colleagues who had neither met me nor read the book offered
their opinions, diagnosing me as suffering from some treatable malady such
as "burnout" or "depression." One psychologist, after watching an interview
of me on national television, lodged a formal complaint with my licensing
board that led to an investigation in the name of "protecting the
television watching public." After eighteen months, the board finally
acknowledged my charter right to speak and my role as "a social critic,"
and dismissed the complaint. ... So, I find myself in the role of renegade,
openly challenging the authority of my profession. Throughout this book, I
have made it clear that tragedies can leave scars and that suffering can be
genuine. But I have pointed out that, as with anything that is genuine,
from silk to pearls to paintings, there is always the copy, the synthetic
and the counterfeit, the product made to look like the real thing just as
there are real victims, so too are there fabricated victims, who are, by
and large, the products of the Psychology Industry." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 268)
"I am reminded of Sheldon Kopp's story of the "Just Man who went to
Sodom, hoping to save its people from sin and punishment. He cried out to
them, preaching in the streets, urging them to change their ways. No one
listened, no one responded, and yet he went on shouting his message of
warning, his promise of Redemption. Then one day a child stopped him,
asking why he went on crying out when there was no hope of being heard. And
the Just Man answered: 'When I first came I shouted my message, hoping to
change these men. Now I know that I am helpless to change them. If I
continue to cry out today, it is only in hope that I can prevent them from
changing me." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 283)
"If these shocking presumptions were not an actual description of
the current state of the Psychology industry, they might be laughable. But
regrettably, these simplistic theories are widely applied and widely
accepted in a society that naively trusts psychologists to be scientific
and objective, optimistic and positive, and caring and other-oriented."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 266)
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