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Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill
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Few would argue that people suffer from mental illness, mental breakdowns, depression or any number of adjectives that describe behaviors that adversely, even severely, affect people's lives. In law it is said that "it doesn't matter what one believes, only what one can prove." The same can be said for psychiatric diagnosing. It matters little what anyone in the medical/psychiatric community "believe" is the cause(s) of mental illness. The question that has not been answered is whether tens of millions of Americans who have been diagnosed with any one or number of psychiatric mental disorders suffer from a mental "disease" - an objective, confirmable abnormality of the brain. What is known is that neither the American Psychiatric Association nor the National Institute of Mental Health, nor any other medical organization, is capable today of making available scientific evidence to prove that any psychiatric disorder is an objective, confirmable abnormality of the brain. This mantra is repeated throughout the book because it is the point of the book. That people are suffering isn't in question. Whether they actually suffer from a psychiatric disorder that is a known objective, confirmable abnormality of the brain is in question because selling mental disorders as "disease," such as the theoretical chemical imbalance, has become the norm in the medical/psycho pharmaceutical Community and it is blatantly false. The People, if given the truth, can take it. The decision to accept the psychiatric diagnosis and seek treatment with psychiatric mind-altering drugs may be no different, but at least the decision will be based on all the truth, the objective confirmable scientific evidence, not theories, wishful thinking, deceptive advertising and misleading advocacy group, pharmaceutical company and government-sponsored information campaigns.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #362290 in Books
- Published on: 2006-05-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
Customer Reviews
An independent reporter skewers the psychopharm industry
Investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O'Meara focuses a spotlight on the incredible proliferation of mental disorders and the widespread use of psychiatric drugs in our country.
Mincing no words and pulling no punches, O'Meara observes, "America, the nation of tough, indefatigable people that tamed the West and were first to land a man on the moon, has become an ever-increasing population of mentally ill patients."
How is this possible and who's to blame? "Psyched Out" provides the answers with a page-by-page critique of the main culprits:
* mental health professionals -- especially psychiatrists, led by the American Psychiatric Association and its DSM bible of fictitious mental disorders;
* the multi-billion dollar drug industry, whose clever marketing schemes promote the myth of "chemical imbalance" without a shred of scientific or medical evidence;
* front groups like the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD), funded by pharmaceutical profits;
* corrupt government agencies like the FDA and National Institute for Mental Health, catering to drug companies at the expense of citizens and taxpayers;
* journalists and news organizations who treat industry propaganda as fact, without questioning the lack of science behind it.
"Psyched Out" is a hard-hitting book that raises important questions and reaches some disturbing conclusions. Read it, and you'll think twice before paying a visit to a shrink.
Appropriate Outrage
Kelly O'Meara is a woman after my own heart. This book really grabbed me with its outrage, the response that matches my own to the insidious collusion of interests between psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. She is so right to point out that the problem really starts with the flawed diagnostic paradigm arrived at through consensus rather than science that is designed to sell mental illness rather than alleviate suffering. The psycho-pharma grip on our society all stems from this. This is an outstanding primer on the whole issue of how terribly fooled we are regarding "brain disease" and the treatments we have embraced that are in fact so dangerous and toxic to our health. I hope this book will be widely read and absorbed.
A must read!!!
Omeara has gathered a fabulous body of evidence that would definitely convict the pseudo-science of psychiatry. Her style is incisive, and her research is impressive. Her expose of the American Psychiatric Association, the FDA, the pharmaceutical companies, and psychiatry in general delivers a stake in the heart to this corrupt trio that has been manipulating the public and preying on their vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, The FDA has become lapdog for the pharmaceutical companies instead of a watchdog, since the passing of the PDUFA Act that has enabled them to receive money ($500,000 worth per drug) from the pharmaceutical companies to have the medication rapidly approved. They are in cahoots with these global corporations and the APA, in a concerted effort to pathologize everyone, medicalize behavior, and sell a $3.00 pill for a consumeristic society seeking immediate gratification and looking for a fast fix. The American Psychiatric Association has created a bogus consensual manual, the DSM that promotes alleged mental illnesses, which fit the armament of medications available on the market. Many of the consultants and designers of this manual are on the payroll of the pharmaceutical companies (according to a recent and elaborate study in the journal of psychotherapy and pychosomatics). This fraud has engendered billions of dollars in profits for the corporations involved as well as for the APA and the field of psychiatry.
From personal experience, I know that the senate and congress will never take any action against these culprits that have caused thousands of death as a result of their pseudo-diagnosis and their pseudo-treatment with deadly medications, due to the continuous large contributions provided by these organizations toward their political campaigns.
The practice of psychiatry is truly shameful! These alleged doctors have forgotten their oath "to do no harm" to their patients and replaced it with fancy cars and big mansions.
This book will provide the reader with an electrifying reading, and hopefully will mobilize the public to take action and to write letters to their congressmen and senators to curtail the prevalent corruption of the APA and the pharmaceutical companies.
