Psychiatrists expose the fraud of Psychiatry

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Dr. Niall McLaren, an Australian practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That it cannot/will not take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And that psychiatry only pushes mental disorders
as biological disease in order to convince people to take psychiatric drugs, causing a host of dangerous side effects.



For more psychiatrists/psychologists and doctors who have spoken out against the fraud of psychiatry's biological model of mental disorders
(chemical imbalance, etc) click here:

http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-diso ... fic-tests/

Psychiatrists, Physicians & Psychologists That Debunk Psychiatry as a Science

“There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.”
— Allen Frances, Former DSM-IV Task Force Chairman

“…modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness…Patients [have] been diagnosed with ‘chemical imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim, and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look like.”
— Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist

“There’s no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, ‘I have a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests. So what’s the biochemical imbalance?”
— Dr. Ron Leifer, psychiatrist

“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.”
— Loren Mosher, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

“All psychiatrists have in common that when they are caught on camera or on microphone, they cower and admit that there are no such things as chemical imbalances/diseases, or examinations or tests for them. What they do in practice, lying in every instance, abrogating [revoking] the informed consent right of every patient and poisoning them in the name of ‘treatment’ is nothing short of criminal.”
— Dr Fred Baughman Jr., Pediatric Neurologist

“Psychiatry makes unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.”
— Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist

“In short, the whole business of creating psychiatric categories of ‘disease,’ formalizing them with consensus, and subsequently ascribing diagnostic codes to them, which in turn leads to their use for insurance billing, is nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the public trough.”
— Dr. Thomas Dorman, internist and member of the
Royal College of Physicians of the UK

“I believe, until the public and psychiatry itself see that DSM labels are not only useless as medical ‘diagnoses’ but also have the potential to do great harm—particularly when they are used as means to deny individual freedoms, or as weapons by psychiatrists acting as hired guns for the legal system.”
— Dr. Sydney Walker III, psychiatrist

“The way things get into the DSM is not based on blood test or brain scan or physical findings. It’s based on descriptions of behavior. And that’s what the whole psychiatry system is.”
— Dr. Colin Ross, psychiatrist

“No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.”
— Bruce Levine, Ph.D., psychologist and
author of Commonsense Rebellion

“Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV [and ICD-10] are terms arrived at through peer consensus.”
— Tana Dineen Ph.D., Canadian psychologist

Intro to Psychiatry: Industry of Death

[Craig Browning]

That's right up there with Kreskin disproving Hypnosis...

Yes, from one point of view you could argue that Psychiatry/psychology is bogus but as one who managed to get his life back based on the validity of both, I'd have to say that the evidence outweighs the B.S.

[caniswalensis]

Well, there is no denying that Psychiatry/psychology is a "soft science" and that there are a lot of problems and things we do not know.

There is also no denying that there are people who need help.

So what if we got rid of it? What would replace it?

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[Craig Browning]

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The other thing with psychiatry is that we're talking about issues that are not easy to deal with. And the proper treatment is not always obvious. For someone on psychatric mediation, a psychiatrist may need to tinker quite a bit to get the right cocktail to really help the person. These are not one-size fits all treatments. I also know people whose lives have been saved by psychiatric treatment. Meaning they probably would have killed themselves by now had the therapy not been instituted.

I don't know a lot about psychiatry (though I have recently subscribed to a podcast dealing with psychatric issues) so I can't really comment in detail on the OP. But there are many differnt theories and treatments out there- some work, some don't. Science advances and undertanding of human psychology and neurochemistry continues all the time. Calling it "fraud" is simply uncalled for.

I do not consider it demeaning to label someone with a psychiatric illness. I deal with many people who are clinically depressed. Depression is very very real. And it's not as simple as giving someone a hug and telling them that it will be ok. Anyone who has tried to console a clinically depressed person will know how useless that is!

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Then why is there zero scientific evidence that a chemical imbalance causes mental disorder?

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[derrida]

the thing is.. psychiatric doctors have become really easy on medicating people
i really dont think there´s more ADD than 30 years before
but i do know there´s more kids on ritalin and whatever they give them because they are diagnosed that.. so yeah.. thats the part were i do think psychiatric doctors are harmful.

and yeah.. althought there´s MANY cases of missdiagnosis.. ill take science over newage worthless terapies..

[Craig Browning]

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Part of the problem too, I believe, is that patients don't adequately commuunicate with their doctors. They don't let their psychiatriststs know when the cocktail isn't working. This is the doctor's fault too, of course, for not emphasising enough that the client MUST update them in order to ensure that the the right medications are beind administered. Again annectodal, but like you craig I know people who when the cocktail was off, they were miserable, but after months of tinkering and making small adjustments here and there, suddenly the cocktail clicked, and it was like dealing with an entirely different person.

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