Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry

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Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry
By Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D., 1995

"Essential reading for mental health patients and their families."

Dr. Colin Ross and Dr. Alvin Pam

About the authors:

Colin A. Ross, M.D., who is director of the Dissociative Disorders Unit at Charter Hospital of Dallas, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Southwest Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. (Pictured right)

Alvin Pam, Ph.D., Director of Internship Training at the Bronx Psychiatric Center, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City

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About the book:

"The purpose of this book is to show that biological psychiatry - presently the dominant force within the discipline of psychiatry - is dominated by a reductionist ideology that distorts and misrepresents much of its research" (Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D., 1995, p. 1-2)
"biological psychiatry cannot fulfill its mission properly because in the current state it has more the accouterment [false outward appearance] of a scientific discipline than the substance. ... the methodology of biological psychiatry is sufficiently flawed as to call into doubt the preponderance of its accepted findings" (Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D., 1995, p. 8).
"The history of biological psychiatry can be depicted as a tale of 'promising' leads, closure on slender evidence, hyperbole as initial reception to new work, and ultimately unproductive results. ... following about a century of effort, a harsh assessment would be that no substantive results have been tendered for the pathogenesis of any major psychiatric disorder" (Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D., 1995, p. 42).
"biological psychiatry does not come close to meeting scientific standards" (Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry, Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D., 1995, p. 69).

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