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Comment on More Or Less Biology In Psychiatry–That Is The Question by mindfreedomvirginia

mindfreedomvirginia — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:33 +0000

I don’t think so, Duane. This shift is opportunism on the part of an NIMH taking advantage of criticism of the DSM-5 revision efforts. The psychologists object because they do psychoanalysis now, and psyche is precisely what’s missing from psychiatry now that all is determined by genes and biology…in theory. The NIMH is insisting that psychiatry become even more biological and less behavioral in orientation. We’re talking a change alright, but perhaps not as dramatic as one might imagine, and not for the better. Pseudo-science, yes, but pseudo-science pretending to be hard science. Is biological psychiatry vanishing into a black hole of self-destruction? Anybody who thinks so is indulging in wishful thinking. Biological psychiatry is more firmly entrenched than ever, and this is an instance where the NIMH is taking the lead away from the APA when it comes to trying to insure that the direction psychiatry takes be biological. Jockey stats and push gizmos and gadgets, this is the way of the NIMH, and if Thomas Insel were a fishman, he’d know those fish were biting. Thomas Insel and the NIMH aren’t working against the APA, with its DSM, so much as they are taking the lead away from them. Both the APA and the NIMH are completely in cahoots. If anything, this is an feignt on behalf of both organizations to deflect attention away from the message relayed by any real critics of psychiatric dogma. If there are schisms here, any schism between the APA and the NIMH is of a different order than a schism between professionals who reject the “schizophrenic” label, for instance, and professionals who enforce the “schizophrenic” label. There is no conflict here in that regard, both the APA and the NIMH can safely be considered enforcers.

Comment on More Or Less Biology In Psychiatry–That Is The Question by Duane Sherry, M.S.

Duane Sherry, M.S. — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:41:24 +0000

We’re watching a pseudo-scientific profession implode.
That’s a good thing.

Duane

Comment on Website Exposes Doctor Ties To Big Pharma by San Jose

San Jose — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:16:41 +0000

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

Comment on Pre-psychosis In The News by mindfreedomvirginia

mindfreedomvirginia — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:04:39 +0000

I’m not getting a visual here, Rod, which is just as well. The low life floor show couldn’t be much of a floor show. You do hit on a provocative question though. What can the terminally frustrated do for relief, besides shoot people?

Comment on Pre-psychosis In The News by mindfreedomvirginia

mindfreedomvirginia — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:42:42 +0000

Yep, I’d watch it if I were you. Pre psychos are everywhere.

Comment on Pre-psychosis In The News by Rod

Rod — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:28:45 +0000

They’re more dangerous than the ones that you can pick by their drooling and public masturbation.

Comment on Pre-psychosis In The News by Rod

Rod — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:26:46 +0000

I don’t go out anymore in case I find myself in the company of pre psychos.

Comment on The Current Crop Of Whoppers On Capitol Hill by mindfreedomvirginia

mindfreedomvirginia — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:07:29 +0000

Your welcome, Duane. The Manchin and Toomey background check bill was just defeated in the Senate. I don’t know that I contributed a great deal to that defeat, but it certainly helps to think I might have contributed a little. I think we’ve got our work cut out for us when it comes to trying to convince the powers that be that people who have had their lives disrupted by the mental health system have not ceased, thereby, to be human beings.

Comment on The Current Crop Of Whoppers On Capitol Hill by Duane Sherry, M.S.

Duane Sherry, M.S. — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:48:33 +0000

Thanks for the consistency and passion on this issue.

Duane

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