{"id":460,"date":"2011-06-29T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=460"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:29","slug":"the-illusions-of-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/29\/the-illusions-of-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusions of Psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/jul\/14\/illusions-of-psychiatry\/\">The  Illusions of Psychiatry<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>by Marcia Angell in the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is a seriously great article exposing all the inner workings of  psychiatry&#8217;s billing bible, the <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental  Disorders<\/em> (DSM), including the complete lack of medical legitimacy\u00c2\u00a0for  psychiatric diagnoses, the birth of the\u00c2\u00a0psychiatric-pharmaceutical alliance to  push DSM disorders off on an unsuspecting public, and the funding behind  psychiatrists and their\u00c2\u00a0front groups pushing the brain based &#8220;disease&#8221; model  which they all know is bogus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Unlike the conditions treated in most other branches of medicine, there are  no objective signs or tests for mental illness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dno lab data or MRI findings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand  the boundaries between normal and abnormal are often unclear. That makes it  possible to expand diagnostic boundaries or even create new diagnoses, in ways  that would be impossible, say, in a field like cardiology. And drug companies  have every interest in inducing psychiatrists to do just that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Read the full article here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/jul\/14\/illusions-of-psychiatry\/\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2011\/jul\/14\/illusions-of-psychiatry\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell in the New York Review of Books This is a seriously great article exposing all the inner workings of psychiatry&#8217;s billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), including the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/29\/the-illusions-of-psychiatry\/\">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-460","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-7q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}