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 "Cotton's practices were covered up by the hospital board and the leading figure in American psychiatry of the day, Adolf Meyer, and Cotton was also allowed to continue practicing at the hospital for almost another twenty years. At his eulogy in 1933, Meyer lauded Cotton's "extraordinary record of achievement."10
Harvard-trained doctors John Talbott and Kenneth Tillotson, somehow under the impression that psychosis could be expunged by extreme thermal measures, wrapped patients in freezing blankets so that their body temperatures fell ten to twenty degrees below normal."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Major international conferences, such as the World Congress of Biological psychiatry, feature bizarre installations to promote the drugs. At the Berlin conference in 2001, Eli Lilly set up what were described as "fun houses" to draw the attention of physicians to their products. In one fun house, called "Prozac," a huge mouselike creature sat in front of a blank TV screen. A confused psychiatrist asked the Lilly reps for clarification and was informed that the mouse represented a depressed man who needed Prozac." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "I saw the power inherent in biological psychiatry, albeit in an entirely different way. I saw its wonders up close, when it is applied most appropriately to the people who most need its power: people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and major depression." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "John Griffith, Professor of psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, testifying at the same hearing
HP he discovery that amphetamines could be used to alter the JL behavior of children was made by accident in 1937. Charles Bradley was a physician at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Home in Rhode Island, a residential treatment center for children diag-
52 nosed with behavioral and neurological disorders."- Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) |
 "I consider myself fortunate to be able to continue to practice psychiatry now that I am retired from teaching and lucky that 1 received my award before the name APA changes, perhaps to the American Bipolar Association. "
The level of frustration, disappointment and disillusionment expressed by the above doctors about the APA and its diagnostic criteria represents a level of honesty and integrity that an increasing number of professionals in the field are concluding is an accurate portrayal of the organization that determines the nation's mental health."- Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) |
| "Over the course of the 1950s the terms psychiatrist and psychoanalyst became synonymous in the American popular imagination. In fact, there was only a tiny cadre of psychoanalysts—there were no more than 1,400 practicing analysts in the world in 195751—at the core of this movement, but their numbers were enhanced by the addition of a throng of psychologists and social workers, who, while technically not analysts, brought psychoanalytic approaches to their work. The newly fashionable image of the analyst was reflected in the popular cinema. The kindly and wise doctor prevailed." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "DO NOT ALLOW TESTING OR LABELING: THE ONLY ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY
My message is the same to parents in the US and in every country of the world to which this fraud is being exported: do not go to those who would "screen," "examine," or "test" for their mental illnesses/disorders/diseases/chemical imbalances, for this is the process of labeling, and once labeled, the labels stick, stigmatize and enmesh you in the world of psychiatry. It all starts with the "label." That is the first "hook." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "When used to treat the epilepsies (seizure disorders), we have a disease and a diseased, abnormal child on the risk side of the risk/benefit equation, and a scientific rationale and medical justification to treat—something that is never the case in psychiatry. The (6) antipsychotics (Thorazine, Mellaril, Risperdal, Se-roquel, Abilify, Clozapine, Geodon, Clozaril, Haldol, etc.) are such an especially brain- and body-toxic group of drugs, that it should be criminal to give to any normal child." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) |
| "Talking Back to Prozac and Your Drug May Be Your Problem, understands the tricks of the clinical trial trade and further raises questions about the FDA's commitment to the public's safety.
"The most serious cases of depression," explains Breggin, "almost always are excluded from the clinical trials and, for example, the clinical trials for antidepressants almost always occur as outpatient trials, where they exclude in-patients. They always exclude patients who have a significant suicide risk and those who have a diagnosis of manic depressive disorder." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Harvard Medical School and author of several books, including Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives, explains some of the failed science into the "chemical imbalance." "One cannot measure serotonin levels in the brain of any patient. Nor can one measure serotonin at specific synapses. Synapses are the spark plugs between nerve cells, junctions where they exchange chemical messages and where drugs are said to work. Blood levels of serotonin are of little use." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "University of Vermont School of Medicine and a trustee of the APA made it clear which group was responsible for the language change when, during an interview with Jim Rosack of Clinical and Research News, the APA spokesman said "the change in wording brings the FDA warning closer to the actual science. I'm glad they responded to the extensive and detailed input from both practicing psychiatrists and the research community. Hopefully, the FDA will consider further revisions in the future, as more long-term and follow-up data become available." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) |
 "Arch Gen psychiatry 2005 Apr; 62(4):4l7-22.
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Ludman E et al. Panic episodes among patients with diabetes. General Hospital psychiatry 2006; 28:475-81.
Lustman PJ, Clouse RE."- Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) |
| "ADHD is a bona fide disease.
AMPHETAMINES AND THE HEART
The FDA advisory on Adderall continues: "... the FDA has not decided to take any further regulatory action at this time. However, because it appeared that patients with underlying heart defects might be at increased risk for sudden death, the labeling for Adderall XR was changed in August, 2004 to include a warning that these patients might be at particular risk, and that these patients should ordinarily not be treated with Adderall products." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) |
 "In other words, if psychiatrists can reliably identify people with "schizophrenia," as they frequently claim, why do they need biological markers to enable them to identify schizophrenia? According to Merikangas and Risch, "Psychiatric disorder phenotypes, based solely on clinical manifestations without pathognomonic markers, still lack conclusive evidence for the vahdity of classification and the rehabihty of measurement."1 And Kennedy and colleagues wrote that, "the psychoses have nonspecific pleomorphic phenotypes, making diagnosis and nosology difficult."- Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) "By Siever and Gunderson's logic, we should completely disregard the 1968 study's results because the control group was not screened. Bleuler's description of latent schizophrenia actually was the most useful guide since only those observations, like ours, had been made on individuals not hospitalized or seeking treatment.1 Bleuler did indeed identify the condition in his 1911 book on schizophrenia: "There is also a latent schizophrenia, and I am convinced that this is the most frequent form, although admittedly these people hardly ever come for treatment." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) "I know that looking in-depth at one issue, particularly where numbers are involved, can test readers' patience. However, it is necessary in this case because the Danish-American results have had a tremendous impact on how the public and professionals view schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. As I and others have argued elsewhere, the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies contained numerous flaws." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) "I am confident that during the upcoming years the heritage of the double helix will help psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and behavioral scientists unlock many secrets of the mind and brain."1 Later in 2003, genetic investigators Lynn DeLisi and Timothy Crow cautioned that the genes cited by Cloninger and Weinberger "have not yet been determined to show specific modification in multiple members with schizophrenia within families." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) |
 "His had been a journey from existentialist psychiatry, that is, from a form of clinical practice that had actually been designed to help women confront their deaths, not extend their lives. By design, the group therapy sessions Spiegel conducted possessed a stark-ness and (frequently) a darkness that were barely compatible with the usual understandings of what group therapy for cancer was supposed to be good for.
The support groups we formed offered far more than hand-holding and good wishes."- Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "With the rise in the 1970s of a widespread revulsion against such so-called mother-blaming trends in psychiatry and medicine, the issue of the health-giving effects of mother love languished for a generation. In the 1990s, however, it became topical again. Following the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dietatorship in Romania in 1989, Western doctors discovered 150,000 Romanian orphan babies who, like Spitz's foundling children, had been physically well cared for but left to languish without any affection or cuddling." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Particularly in psychiatry. For people who grew up as intellectuals, there's almost an aversion to it."
Pyles attributes this partly to the founding principles of Freudian psychoanalysis. Doing something to avoid talking about our emotions is seen as "acting out." This is the origin of the psychiatrist's couch—the idea is to immobilize the patient and force the emotions to manifest themselves verbally. From this point of view, exercise is a prime example of acting out—dealing with our emotions physically rather than verbally. We're not working on our problems."- John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Glutamate is a workhorse, but psychiatry focuses more on a group of neurotransmitters that act as regulators—of the signaling process and of everything else the brain does. These are serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. And although the neurons that produce them account for only 1 percent of the brain's hundred billion cells, these neurotransmitters wield powerful influence. They might instruct a neuron to make more glutamate, or they might make the neuron more efficient or alter the sensitivity of its receptors." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Current thinking in psychiatry is that the best way to treat depression or anxiety is with a combination of one of the new antidepressants and CBT. Fifty-five percent of patients with depression showed improvement when they tried with an SSRI alone; 52 percent got better with CBT alone; but 85 percent showed improvement when both treatments were used. In the same way that CBT improves treatment of depression with antidepressants, I strongly believe that
CBT improves treatment of medically unexplained pain and fatigue."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "In contrast to specialists who have to be expert in a tiny part of the body, the family practitioner is a gen-eralist and has extensive training in marrying the principles of psychiatry to those of medicine. The broad training of such doctors makes it less likely that you'll find yourself cut off in midsentence as you describe your symptoms. Another way to reduce the chances of getting a doctor with the three Bs is to turn to a female physician. It's actually been shown that male doctors tend to be more dismissive of unexplained symptoms than female doctors." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
| "Wartime experiences like these helped solidify a consensus within psychoanalytic psychiatry in particular that any disruption to the mother-child bond, even when there was no overt abuse or neglect otherwise, could dramatically impair normal developmental processes. The man who, more than anyone else, helped to articulate this consensus was the British psychoanalyst John Bowlby." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "W]e exist in partial vacuum and in isolation from the vast majority of our colleagues in medicine, psychiatry, and psychology. . . . [T]he average age of our membership is 50 years, or, put another way, about half our members are eligible to join the American Association of Retired Persons.64 Today, almost twenty years later, the journal Psychosomatic Medicine still exists, but Freud and psychoanalytic thinking are almost nowhere present in its pages." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "It was his idea to bring to a rural county all the best in medicine—from dentistry and psychiatry to obstetrics-gynecology and pediatrics—using a rotating roster of specialists. My father-in-law, the late Dr. George Crile, Jr., had been a breast cancer pioneer at the Cleveland Clinic, which had been founded by his father. When he started practicing medicine, radical mastectomies were still the order of the day; it was his vision that the surgery did not always have to be so extensive, and he devoted much of his professional life to developing less radical operations."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
| "A recent editorial in the British Journal of psychiatry, a major journal in its field, calls for abolishing the SD diagnosis and using a term such as "medically unexplained illness" instead. But we'll see how long it takes doctors to come around to this view.
Rather than calling medically unexplained symptoms "nothing wrong," a more rational approach has been to try to come up with clinical case definitions of these disorders; that way, researchers can identify groups of patients to study and apply scientific reasoning (not just opinion) to solve their cases." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "As illustrations of the overall brain-disabling principle, the apathy or euphoria created by antidepressants is misinterpreted as an improvement in depression—the blunting of all emotions and self-awareness caused by antipsychotic
• In 2007 British psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff authored a scientific analysis and elaboration of my brain-disabling theory in an issue of Ethical Human Psychology and psychiatry celebrating my work, and further applies the principle in her 2008 book, The Myth of the Chemical Cure."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "These guidelines are created by panels of nationally recognized clinical experts, and are usually sponsored by nonprofit organizations (such as the American Heart Association, the National Osteoporosis Foundation, or the National Stroke Association), professional societies (such as the American Colleges of Gastroenterology, psychiatry, or Rheumatology), or governmental agencies.
Clinical guidelines provide expert review of the research and allow doctors to be confident that their decisions regarding patient care reflect the best available scientific evidence."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
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N. Engl. J. Med. (Gram 1994) about every other antidepressant. "The sales representatives for most antidepressants are now giving out sample packs starting with half-strength doses," Dr. Anthony Weisenberger, a top psychopharmacologist, recently said. "They lose so many sales because patients get side effects and quit treatment, the drug companies have finally caught on that the dose makes a big difference."- The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.) |
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