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Psychiatry is Junk science
No scientific data that Psychiatry works!
"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)
Psychologists seek credibility by deceptively fashioning themselves to
appear to be another branch of medicine:
"Psychologists in White Coats: The re-emergence of a medical image
for psychological treatment, evident in two current activities, has
constituted part of the efforts to repair psychology's image. First was the
"scramble for protection under the powerful umbrella of medicine."
psychology hoped that if it could associate itself with the strong and
established profession of medicine, it could, by alliance or by default,
gain the credibility it could not attain through research. This movement
has been most evident in the re-acquisition of medical concepts and
terminology and in the attempt to redefine physical illnesses in, emotional
and psychological language. In contrast to its earlier anti-medical stance,
in the late 1970s the Psychology industry began to remodel itself along the
lines of traditional medicine. Problems became "psychopathology" or
diseases (e.g. the "epidemic of depression"), difficulties became
"disorders" or "syndromes," individuals again became "patients,"
assessments became "diagnoses" and outcomes were now "prognoses." A
significant contribution to this movement was the official introduction in
1980 of the DSM-111, which the American Journal of Psychiatry described as
having served to augment the "general trend toward the remedicalizations of
the phenomena of psychiatry." In an editorial in the issue discussing the
DSM-IV and psychotherapy, Chodoff concluded that "the other purposes
[beyond diagnosis) the diagnostic manual serves [are] to provide labels for
hospital, third party, and other records, and to supply data for research
into the prevalence and outcome of psychiatric conditions no matter how
they are treated." However, studies in the mid-1970s had shown the overall
unreliability of these psychiatric labels, a conclusion that was supported
by Chodoff when he noted that "treatment tends to give rise to a
diagnosis." Thus, if the DSM is unreliable and diagnostically imprecise, it
can only be concluded that the major effect of DSM-111 and its successors,
the DSM IV and IVR, was its provision of billing codes and the consequent
absorption of mental-health problems into the medical health care (and
insurance) system. Not only did psychology adopt medical terminology, it
also tried to co-opt medical patients and their business, with political
statements such as "60% or more of the physician visits are made by
patients who demonstrate an emotional, rather than an organic, etiology for
their physical symptoms. But rather than share their turf, psychiatrists
and psychologists began fighting for the same turf. Significant in this
struggle is the current trend to approach psychological problems from a
biological perspective, with regard to both diagnosis and treatment. For
instance, neurobiological evidence and explanations are being sought for
such problems as trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder." And
pharmaceuticals are being tested and dispensed for the treatment not only
of depressive symptoms, but also of attention deficit hyperactive disorder
(e.g. Ritalin), impotence (e.g. Viagra) and alcoholism (e.g. Naltrexone).
This shift towards a biological orientation has spurred licensed
psychologists to lobby for the right to prescribe psychoactive drugs. ...
And all of this is being carried out by a profession that historically
fought psychiatry, hospitalization and the use of drugs, arguing that
psychotherapy was "just as effective."" (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana
Dineen, 2001, p 256)
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