Posted on 01/18/2011 10:30:38 AM PST by markomalley
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Psychiatry has been corrupt for decades.
Follow the money. If the government is handing out free money for all illnesses, then it pays to define mental illness as something which affects everyone in the population. Everyone is sick — keep the checks coming!
Try at least a century.
What about ‘valium deficiency’?
Was it a decade ago that the APA tried to suggest that being molested was good for kids?
BFLR
Psychiatry is a religion that our government, at all levels, has established to rule over us.
My favorite disorder is “disagrees with a therapist’s diagnosis”.
People really have to be stupid to fall for this shyt.
Gun control by other means.
Do they accept suggestions? I’d like to suggest hoplophobia.
I have nasal-phalangeal insertion disorder. It occurs a lot while I’m driving.
...does not the forthcoming DSM exclude narcissistic personality disorder? (Perhaps in order to keep unapproved analysts and armchair psychiatrists from comparing Mister Obama to other prominent narcissists in history?)
One suspects that the members of the American Psychiatric Assn should be feeling quite guilty nowadays.
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It’s less of an Association; more like a cult with doctrine, creeds, priests, high priests and political connection.
Of course. They see everyone as “sick” or having some kind of “disorder”. It’s a strange kind of delusion.
BTTT!
DISCLOSURE: I was a member of the PTSD Subcommittee of the Anxiety Disorders Committee for the DSM III-R, and consulted with the Chair of the PTSD Subcommittee for PTDSD for DSM IV, resulting in a refinement and addition to the criteria for the PTSD disorder in DSM IV. I have first hand knowledge of which I speak.
The process of diagnostic definition is not purely scientific, as it is carried out in committees where individuals seek to have their say. Still, it is a serious process and ordinarilly will require that the "symptoms" of the disorder cause significant deficit in functioning beyond what would be considered the normal range.
Psychiatry, as a branch of medicine, still is encumbered by the medieval tradition of "appeal to authority"; and this is where the political pollution and contamination usually occurs. In this respect medicine is its own worst enemy. Nevertheless, one needs to read the narrative which accompanies the diagnostic criteria, for it is there that the distillation of the empirical research is found-- often the most worthwhile sections of the whole manual.
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