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Psychology Gone Crazy: Time to Decertify the DSM-5

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mental disordersMark A. Hewitt – Rarely is there a discussion of under what authority a male can compete physically with females.  World-class tennis champion Martina Navratilova says “transgender women” (men) are “cheating” if they compete in women’s sports.  What is the authority whereby a male can legally use the shower or restroom facilities or dressing rooms set aside for females?  The problem is that there isn’t a law or an authority, but rather the absence of terms used to describe mental disorders, specifically sexual disorders.

For decades, transgenderism and gender identity disorder had been classified as mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in that organization’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).  The DSM evolved from systems for collecting census and psychiatric hospital statistics and from a United States Army manual on mental illnesses.  Revisions since its first publication in 1952 have incrementally added to the total number of mental disorders and removed those no longer considered mental illnesses. Continue reading →

Psychiatric “MD’s” Dispense Dangerous Drugs With Impunity, All For Profit

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Natural Society April 19 2013

In a world where creativity is deemed a “mental illness” by scientists, is it any wonder that a large portion of the population is on medications for some type of ‘mental illness’? The old fashioned psychiatrist’s writing pad for taking notes during talk therapy has been replaced by the prescription pad, granting the population with dangerous psychotropic drugs instead of simple talk therapy.

DSM – The ‘Psychiatric Bible’

Have you ever been in a situation involving a psychiatrist and a prescription pad? Oftentimes, all it takes is a single short-term visit and a reference to the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to determine what to prescribe to individuals. Any future visits are only to adjust dosages or add other medications.

This has increased the profits of Big Pharma, attracting patients looking for magic fixes for minor problems that can be overcome with some common sense, or simply proper nutrition.

Even major psychological issues can be resolved with a competent psychologist who’s ethical enough to not pamper one for the sake of a long client revenue relationship. Psychologists also used the DSM until 1980 when DSM-3 was published.

That’s when the psychiatric leadership asserted the theme of being labeled M.D.’s, ready to play doctor and write lots of prescriptions. The DSM-3 became a catalog for determining what drugs to prescribe for symptoms observed or communicated.

Now psychiatry is “legitimized” as a medical science with a biological base. But is it really? There is more mental illness now than ever, much of it exacerbated or even caused by prescribed medications, while another portion is just completely fabricated.

The Psychiatric Profession’s Transition

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Psychiatry Goes Insane: Every Human Emotion Now Classified As Mental Disorder

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NaturalNews | December 20 2012 | Thanks, Vk

cartoon_psychiatryThe industry of modern psychiatry has officially gone insane. Virtually every emotion experienced by a human being — sadness, grief, anxiety, frustration, impatience, excitement — is now being classified as a “mental disorder” demanding chemical treatment (with prescription medications, of course).

The new, upcoming DSM-5 “psychiatry bible,” expected to be released in a few months, has transformed itself from a medical reference manual to a testament to the insanity of the industry itself.

“Mental disorders” named in the DSM-5 include “General Anxiety Disorder” or GAD for short. GAD can be diagnosed in a person who feels a little anxious doing something like, say, talking to a psychiatrist. Thus, the mere act of a psychiatrist engaging in the possibility of making a diagnoses causes the “symptoms” of that diagnoses to magically appear.

This is called quack science and circular reasoning, yet it’s indicative of the entire industry of psychiatry which has become such a laughing stock among scientific circles that even the science skeptics are starting to turn their backs in disgust. Psychiatry is no more “scientific” than astrology or palm reading, yet its practitioners call themselves “doctors” of psychiatry in order to try to make quackery sound credible.

How modern psychiatry really works

Here’s how modern psychiatry really operates: A bunch of self-important, overpaid intellectuals who want to make more money invent a fabricated disease that I’ll call “Hoogala Boogala Disorder” or HBD.

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Critics Blast Big Psychiatry for Invented and Redefined Mental Illnesses

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The New American | May 13 2012

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersUnlike in conventional medicine where objective diagnoses and treatments are made based on observable biological evidence, psychiatrists get together every so often to decide what should or should not be considered a “mental illness.” And they do not always agree, as evidenced by the more than 13,000 professionals from around the world who recently signed an open letter demanding that the upcoming edition of the psychiatry industry’s “diagnostic manual” be put on hold and reconsidered.

As the elite of the nation’s psychiatric establishment work in the shadows to fully revise the highly controversial handbook labeling various behaviors and emotional states as “illnesses,” experts across the board are crying foul. A handful of new potential mental disorders and the revised definitions for others have caused a particularly fierce uproar among some psychiatrists and mental health professionals. At least 25,000 comments have already been submitted about the proposals.

The debate and its resolutions, of course, will have serious repercussions. Depending on the outcome of the ongoing conflict, millions of people may suddenly find out that they are afflicted with newly created “diseases,” while others — especially certain individuals diagnosed with forms of autism — may no longer qualify under the new definitions. Tens of millions more may soon be officially considered “addicts” under the revised definition for addiction, too.

The proposed changes would have broad implications affecting everything from treatment regimens to welfare programs, criminal law, and even education. But around the world, psychiatrists and mental health professionals are fighting back hard, urging the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to hold off on the revisions until more discussion and research can take place.

Known as the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM), the controversial handbook is widely used around the globe by the mental health industry, governments, insurance companies, and more. If all goes as planned, the fifth edition of the so-called “Bible” of psychiatry is set to be distributed in May of next year after the first major revision in over a decade.

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