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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:49:42 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: SHRINKS FINALLY ADMIT MASSIVE FRAUD
"Brain science has not advanced to the point where scientists or
clinicians can point to readily discernible pathologic lesions or
genetic abnormalities that in and of themselves serve as reliable
or predictive biomarkers of a given mental disorder or mental
disorders as a group."
-- APA Press Release No. 03-39, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writing to
Support Coalition International.
It took a hunger strike by psychiatric survivors, but at long last
the american psychiatric association has admitted, after years of
misleading press releases and bogus industry-funded "research",
that despite all their wishful thinking and public obfuscation,
there is no known genetic or neurological basis for "mental illness."
Therefore MI must be a social construct, not a medical diagnosis.
It only remains for rational thinking people (lawyers among them)
to connect the dots and ask the obvious questions. All dominant
social constructs serve dominant social interests. What interests
are involved here?
1) foremost of course are the interests involved in the "diagnosis"
and "treatment" of this social construct: institutional psychiatry,
psychiatrists and pharmaceutical corporations who, not surprisingly
have been the main purveyers of the decades of the unscientific
propaganda about MI. The motivations of this group are readily
apparent.
2) the people who hire them, who are, due to a legal sleight of hand
called "proxy consent", are not necessarily the objects of their
unscientific treatments. These include dominant family members who
act in a legal capacity on behalf of and purportedly in the interests
of the "patient." Their motivations are varied and complex, but
one telling statistical fact is pertinent here: by psychiatry's own
studies, somewhere between 50 and 80% of psychiatrized "patients"
(usually women and children) have histories of domestic abuse. Of
course such abuse is nearly always carried out by DOMINANT FAMILY
MEMBERS. Therefore psychiatrists often find themselves in the
employ of the abusers of their "patients."
3) the "patients" themselves, who often, by the same legally
sanctioned fiction and industry fostered social stigma, have no
human or civil rights to control their own bodies and lives, despite
having committed no crime other than being a victim of domestic
abuse. Not surprisingly the overwhelmingly dominant MI is "depression",
a perfectly understandable and ultimately rational response to the
chronic physical and emotional trauma typical of domestic abuse.
"Learned helplessness" is common in this group, a lack of a sense
of self worth and a willingness to go along with whatever they're
told is "good" for them, but in case of non-compliance, medical
professionals can always rely on legally sanctioned assault and
imprisonment to ensure a healthy attitude.
The psychiatric prescription for domestic abuse is therefore
institutional abuse: imprisonment, isolation from social support
networks, permanently brain damaging drugging, shock treatment and
lobotomy. Essentially a prescription for further psychiatrization.
Untold hundreds of thousands of people have lost virtually their
entire adult lives caught up in this cycle of profitable abuse.
Those fortunate enough to escape often have life-long post-traumatic
stress and are emotionally unable to publically accuse their legally
sanctioned, well-endowed and seemingly well-educated tormentors.
Psychiatry has long been aware of these essential facts, but perhaps
their financial self interest and well documented scientific
incompetence has prevented them from putting them all together. So
let me spell out one critical statistical fact: given the overall
rate of domestic abuse in the population, we can use the 50-80%
figure above to calculate the odds ratio (relative probability)
of psychiatrization among abused and non-abused people. If we
assume a 20% rate of domestic abuse victimization in the overall
population, then it can be readily shown that abused people are
between 4 and 16 TIMES more likely to be psychiatrized than non-abused
people. Decades and centuries of psychiatric "research" have
produced nothing even approaching this kind of odds ratio.
EUREKA! We've found a major cause of mental illness!
It's .... PSYCHIATRY!!!
Truely a business model worthy of Enron.
When will mainstream human rights organizations take note of this
naked emperor? When will the most vulnerable and voiceless segment
of the population be protected from such institutional predation?
"Todays patients, discontented, unhappy, fragmented and confused
by an increasingly frantic, alienating and violent society,
come to psychiatrists for help, only to have their illusions
shored up by an increased dose of a technologic fix. They are
told they have illnesses that are biologic and can be fixed,
instead of being allowed to speak about their unhappiness, to
speak about how difficult it is to be a human being, to speak
about their suffering, because human beings have always suffered
and always will. To believe that we can conquer depression,
despair, anxiety with modern technology is the height of hubris
and bad faith, a mere childish fantasy, unworthy of any
thoughtful person who has their eyes open to human history and
modern culture."
-- David Kaiser, M.D.
Northwestern University Hospital, Chicago, IL
Psychiatric Medications as Symptoms, February, 1997
http://www.etfrc.com/ChemicalImbalances.htm
"In a world dominated by rapidly escalating disparities between
rich and poor, with the attendant poverty, homelessness and
other associated oppressions, the unscientific, value-laden
judgements which are psychiatric diagnoses are being used with
greater and greater regularity to pathologize the natural and
justified anger, fear and hopelessness of the oppressed, and
to justify the vigorous social control of involuntary incarceration
and 'treatment' on an unprecedented scale.
"Likewise, the marked insensitivity towards issues related to
culture, gender and sexual preference which has long been a
key aspect of the psychiatric lexicon is rapidly increasing.
To put it bluntly, shrinks are an extra-legal, parallel police
force dedicated to controlling those behaviors, worldviews and
beliefs which fall outside the sphere of the criminal justice
system. This truth is all the more insidious due to its
masquerading as compassion."
-- Graeme Bacque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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