The framework composed of Motive\/Pressure\/Incentive, Opportunity, and Rationalization\/Justification is known as the Fraud Triangle. It originated from the sociological research of Donald R. Cressey, an American penologist and criminologist, in his 1953 book “Other People’s Money: A Study in the Social Psychology of Embezzlement.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His theory is that all three components of the Fraud Triangle must be present where there is fraud. The theory is currently a standard criterion for measuring and investigating fraud risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth or falsity of this theory is not our subject here, but the fact that it has been taken up and elaborated by the psychiatric industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the Fraud Triangle originated in sociology and criminology, forensic psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and behavioral health researchers have written extensively on it, typically by examining the phenomenon via psychiatric mental health diagnosis and clinical pathology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This theory is followed up by the Dark Triad, a psychological concept introduced in 2002 by researchers Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams, involving three personality traits of Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy; then extended again starting in 2009 with the trait of Sadism by a longer list of psychological researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you can see, the concept keeps getting more complex as more contributors chime in, tending to obfuscate the basic meanings of fraud. The psychiatric industry has been complicating and explaining fraud away by turning the crime of fraud into a mental illness. Perhaps that is an attempt to draw attention away from their own fraudulent industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psychiatric literature treats fraud as a symptom driven by underlying mental disorders, mapping this criminal behavior onto categories in the already fraudulent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em> (DSM-5). Here are some of the DSM diagnoses that have been used to excuse fraud:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Essentially, What Is Fraud?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fraud: the intentional use of false information, trickery, or deceit to gain an unfair or illegal advantage; something or someone that is not what it seems or is represented to be; the attempt to obtain support without furnishing a product–i.e. the attempt to get something for nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [Middle English fraude<\/em>, from Old French fraude<\/em>, from Latin fraudem<\/em>, fraus<\/em>, “cheating, deceit, injury, or harm”]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In legal terms, fraud involves intentional deception or deliberate misrepresentation to secure money, rights, property or privilege. In general terms, fraud is understood to mean dishonest dealings, cheating or trickery. Fraud in these senses is a criminal activity, not a mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychiatric Fraud Is a Criminal Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychiatrists may attempt to soften the criminal aspect of fraud, for example by discussing “imposter syndrome<\/a>” — giving the fraud a psychiatric diagnosis instead of a criminal perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we speak of psychiatric fraud<\/a>, we are particularly speaking of psychiatrists or psychiatric facilities which promise help for one’s mental health, or which promise help in return for insurance or government funds, but which actually harm one’s mental health or waste those funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The unscientific and spurious nature of psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a><\/em> (DSM) invites fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychiatry cannot and never could cure mental problems. Factually, it is an unmitigated and verifiable failure. As psychiatry today increasingly operates above the law, and at the cost of individual well-being and lives, it requires constant alertness and vigilance to preserve true human rights. Psychiatry is a global menace and a roadblock to real progress in the field of mental healing and the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life\u2019s problems (they Rationalize [Rational Lies] them) as an \u201cillness\u201d or \u201cdisease.\u201d Psychiatry\u2019s false diagnoses, labels, programs and treatments are junk science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Establish or increase the number of psychiatric fraud investigation units to recover funds that are embezzled in the mental health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Clinical and financial audits of all government-run and private psychiatric facilities that receive government subsidies or insurance payments should be done to ensure accountability; statistics on admissions, treatment and deaths, without breaching patient confidentiality, should be compiled for review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. The DSM and\/or ICD (International Classification of Diseases mental disorders section) should be removed from use in all government agencies, departments and other bodies including criminal, educational and justice systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Provide funding and insurance coverage only for proven, workable treatments that verifiably and dramatically improve or cure mental health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Psychiatric literature treats fraud as a symptom driven by underlying mental disorders. Continue reading \n