Posted by
gepr on
Sep 26, 2016; 6:10pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-Unbearable-Asymmetry-of-Bullshit-Quillette-tp7587214p7587914.html
Psychiatry as Bullshit
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/springer/ehpp/2016/00000018/00000001/art00007;jsessionid=367qrargskjst.alice"Instead, we have clear evidence that psychiatry is colonizing, as it were, normal psycho-
logical states and reactions and claiming them as “mental illnesses” (Horwitz & Wakefield,
2007; Whitaker, 2009; Whitely, 2010). A state of discomfort, such as grief, is converted
by fiat to “a mental disease” for which drugs are de rigueur, but that is not the point here.
We can presume patients and the general public did not invent the expression “chemical
imbalance of the brain” to describe the cause of the various mental disorders. We can be
fairly sure it did not come from the older psychiatrists trained in psychoanalytic or other
psychodynamic approaches, nor the few who wholeheartedly adopted the behaviorist
model. By a process of exclusion, it had to arise in the complex of academic psychiatrists
and drug companies who so strongly advocated the biological model (Whitaker &
Cosgrove, 2015)."
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