{"id":303,"date":"2010-07-10T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=303"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:09","slug":"why-psychiatry-needs-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/why-psychiatry-needs-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why psychiatry needs therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The February 27, 2010 issue of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> carried an article called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704188104575083700227601116.html?KEYWORDS=shorter\">Why psychiatry needs therapy<\/a>,&#8221; by Edward Shorter, professor of history at the University of Toronto. Dr. Shorter is a social historian of medicine, specializing in the history of psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p>Shorter says, &#8220;Psychiatry seems to have lost its way in a forest of poorly verified diagnoses and ineffectual medications. Patients who seek psychiatric help today for mood disorders stand a good chance of being diagnosed with a disease that doesn&#8217;t exist and treated with a medication little more effective than a placebo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Making fun of the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders <\/em>(DSM), psychiatry&#8217;s billing bible, is a pastime we understand, and Shorter makes short work of the DSM, calling it horse-trading in symptoms, &#8220;defining ever-widening circles of the population as mentally ill with vague and undifferentiated diagnoses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although, to be sure, the DSM is no laughing matter, as it aims to eventually diagnose everyone with some form of mental illness for which harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs can be prescribed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some actual diagnoses of &#8220;mental disorders&#8221; in the DSM-IV (DSM fourth edition):<\/p>\n<div>315.1 Mathematics Disorder<\/div>\n<div>V15.81 Noncompliance With Treatment<br \/>\nV61.20 Parent-Child Relational Problem<\/div>\n<div>V62.82 Bereavement<\/div>\n<div>V62.89 Religious or Spiritual Problem<\/div>\n<div>292.89 Caffeine-Induced Anxiety Disorder<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Though it has become very influential since it first appeared in 1952, there is one crucial test the DSM has never passed: scientific validity. In fact, after more than 50 years of deception, broad exposure is now being given to the unscientific and ludicrous nature of this doorstop.<\/div>\n<div>\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/quick-facts\/disorders-voted-into-existence.html\">Click here for more information about the DSM hoax<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broad exposure is now being given to the unscientific nature of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/10\/why-psychiatry-needs-therapy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-4T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}