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Top APA Psychiatrist Needs Lesson in Disease vs. Disorder
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Hello and thanks for finding this page. I have enjoyed putting this information together for broad public consumption. I think you will find interesting the APA president’s confusion and misunderstandings. Read the quotes below from mental health professionals who clearly understand psychiatric disorders are not diseases, but then hear and see what the APA president said and did in a videoed interview.
"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
"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
"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
"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
And this, as you will soon see and hear, is what the top level of the APA understands on this subject: http://tinyurl.com/q34h7v
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