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25 GOOD REASONS WHY PSYCHIATRY MUST BE ABOLISHED
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W. K. Mahler, Mahlers.Com
Dec 27, 2009, 7:57:42 AM12/27/09
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25 GOOD REASONS WHY PSYCHIATRY MUST BE ABOLISHED
by Don Weitz
1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities,
death - death of the body-mind-spirit.
2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which
orders all physicians "First Do No Harm."
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their
patients.
4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science.
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent
diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all
other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".
6. Because psychiatrists can not accurately and reliably predict
dangerousness, violence, or any other type of human behaviour, yet make such
claims as "expert witnesses", and with the media promote the "dangerous
mental patient" myth/stereotype.
7. Because psychiatrists have caused a worldwide epidemic of brain damage by
promoting and prescribing brain-disabling treatments such as the
neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroconvulsive brainwashing
(electroshock), and psychosurgery (lobotomy).
8. Because psychiatrists manufacture hundreds of "mental disorders"
classified in its bible called "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders" (a modern witch-hunting manual); such "mental disorders" and
"symptoms" are in fact negative, class-and-culturally-biased moral judgments
for dissident ways of coping with personal problems and alternative ways of
perceiving, interpreting or being in the world.
9. Because psychiatrists, blinded by their medical model bias, fraudulently
pathologize and label people's serious life or existential crises as
"symptoms" of "mental illness" or "mental disorder" such as
"schizophrenia","bipolar affective disorder", and "personality disorder".
10. Because psychiatrists compound this fraud by falsely claiming, without
scientific proof, that these "mental disorders" are caused by a "biochemical
imbalance" in the brain, genetic factors or "genetic predispositions",
despite the fact that there are no genetic factors in "mental illness".
11. Because psychiatrists frequently misinform their patients, families and
the public by claiming that brain-disabling procedures such as the
neurotoxins (e.g.,"antipsychotic medication" and "antidepressasnts"),
electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroconvulsive therapy/"ECT"),
psychosurgery (lobotomy) and other behaviour modification-mind control
procedures are "safe, effective and lifesaving". The exact opposite is
tragically true.
12. Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie to patients, prisoners,
their families, and the public.
13. Because psychiatrists routinely and willfully violate the
medical-ethical principle of "informed consent" by misinforming or not
informing their patients about the numerous toxic, disabling and frequently
permanent effects of the neuroleptics such as memory loss, tardive
dyskinesia, tardive psychosis, parkinsonism, dementia (all signs of brain
damage), and death.
14. Because psychiatrists routinely threaten, intimidate or coerce many
patients - particularly women, children, the elderly, and prisoners - into
consenting to health-threatening/brain-damaging "treatment" such as the
antidepressants, neuroleptics, electroconvulsive brainwashing, and hi-risk
experiments.
15. Because psychiatrists frequently fail to fully inform psychiatric
inmates and prisoners about existing safe and humane, non-medical
alternatives in the community such as survivor-controlled crisis centres,
drop-ins, self-help or advocacy groups, diet, massage, wholistic medicine,
affordable supportive housing, and jobs.
16. Because psychiatrists are sexist in frequently stereotyping women in
crisis as "hysterical" or "over-emotional", blaming women whenever they
voice real complaints and assertively express their feelings and emotions,
prescribing massive doses of tranquilizers and antidrepressants to
disproportionately large numbers of women, and in sexually assaulting women
in their offices and institutions.
17. Because psychiatrists, particularly white male psychiatrists, are
homophobic - the American Psychiatric Association (APA) once labelled
homosexuality as a "mental illness" or "mental disorder" - and have used
forced electroshock on lesbians, trying to coerce them into adopting a
heterosexual life style.
18. Because psychiatrists are ageist in prescribing tranquilizers,
antidepressants ("medication") and electroconvulsive brainwashing for
disproportionately large numbers of elderly people - a form of elder abuse.
19. Because psychiatrists are racist in disproportionately incarcerating and
drugging people of African descent, aboringal people, other people of colour
and labelling them "psychotic" or "schizophrenic".
20. Because psychiatrists routinely violate people's civil rights, human
rights and constitutional rights such as imprisoning innocent people without
court trial or public hearing ("involuntary commitment"), and subjecting
them to cruel and unusual punishments or tortures such as forced drugging,
electroconvulsive brainwashing, psychosurgery, solitary confinement,
"chemical restraints", and 4-point or 5-point restraints.
21. Because psychiatrists masterminded the mass murder of hundreds of
thousands of vulnerable people including disabled children, the elderly and
psychiatric patients during The Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and "selected"
hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners for death ("T-4
euthanasia" program) - historical facts still missing in psychiatric
textbooks and histories.
22. Because psychiatrists have willingly participated in and administered
mind-control experiments in the United States and Canada since the early
1950s - its chief targets have been poor patients, women, dissidents and
prisoners.
23. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is
based on the 3 Fs: Fear, Fraud,and Force.
24. Because psychiatry is a form of social control or punishment - not
treatment.
25. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is
fascist - a direct threat to democracy, human rights and life.
A note from the author:This statement is a slightly revised version of the
original written in Spring 1998. Feel free to add and publish your own
reasons. I am a psychiatric survivor and antipsychiatry activist who has
been involved in the psychiatric survivor liberation movment for 24 years. I
am also co-editor of "Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in
Canada" (1988), host-producer of the antipsychiatry program "Shrinkrap" on
CKLN radio (88.1 FM) in Toronto, member of People Against Coercive Treatment
(P.A.C.T.), and member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).]
PLEASE SNOWBALL, COPY AND PUBLISH THIS STATEMENT INCLUDING THE NOTE. NO
COPYRIGHT OR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
The author, Don Weitz can be reached at his e-mail address:
dwe...@interlog.com
25 GOOD REASONS WHY PSYCHIATRY MUST BE ABOLISHED
by Don Weitz
1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities,
death - death of the body-mind-spirit.
2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which
orders all physicians "First Do No Harm."
3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower people, especially their
patients.
4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science.
5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent
diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all
other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".
6. Because psychiatrists can not accurately and reliably predict
dangerousness, violence, or any other type of human behaviour, yet make such
claims as "expert witnesses", and with the media promote the "dangerous
mental patient" myth/stereotype.
7. Because psychiatrists have caused a worldwide epidemic of brain damage by
promoting and prescribing brain-disabling treatments such as the
neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroconvulsive brainwashing
(electroshock), and psychosurgery (lobotomy).
8. Because psychiatrists manufacture hundreds of "mental disorders"
classified in its bible called "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders" (a modern witch-hunting manual); such "mental disorders" and
"symptoms" are in fact negative, class-and-culturally-biased moral judgments
for dissident ways of coping with personal problems and alternative ways of
perceiving, interpreting or being in the world.
9. Because psychiatrists, blinded by their medical model bias, fraudulently
pathologize and label people's serious life or existential crises as
"symptoms" of "mental illness" or "mental disorder" such as
"schizophrenia","bipolar affective disorder", and "personality disorder".
10. Because psychiatrists compound this fraud by falsely claiming, without
scientific proof, that these "mental disorders" are caused by a "biochemical
imbalance" in the brain, genetic factors or "genetic predispositions",
despite the fact that there are no genetic factors in "mental illness".
11. Because psychiatrists frequently misinform their patients, families and
the public by claiming that brain-disabling procedures such as the
neurotoxins (e.g.,"antipsychotic medication" and "antidepressasnts"),
electroconvulsive brainwashing (electroconvulsive therapy/"ECT"),
psychosurgery (lobotomy) and other behaviour modification-mind control
procedures are "safe, effective and lifesaving". The exact opposite is
tragically true.
12. Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie to patients, prisoners,
their families, and the public.
13. Because psychiatrists routinely and willfully violate the
medical-ethical principle of "informed consent" by misinforming or not
informing their patients about the numerous toxic, disabling and frequently
permanent effects of the neuroleptics such as memory loss, tardive
dyskinesia, tardive psychosis, parkinsonism, dementia (all signs of brain
damage), and death.
14. Because psychiatrists routinely threaten, intimidate or coerce many
patients - particularly women, children, the elderly, and prisoners - into
consenting to health-threatening/brain-damaging "treatment" such as the
antidepressants, neuroleptics, electroconvulsive brainwashing, and hi-risk
experiments.
15. Because psychiatrists frequently fail to fully inform psychiatric
inmates and prisoners about existing safe and humane, non-medical
alternatives in the community such as survivor-controlled crisis centres,
drop-ins, self-help or advocacy groups, diet, massage, wholistic medicine,
affordable supportive housing, and jobs.
16. Because psychiatrists are sexist in frequently stereotyping women in
crisis as "hysterical" or "over-emotional", blaming women whenever they
voice real complaints and assertively express their feelings and emotions,
prescribing massive doses of tranquilizers and antidrepressants to
disproportionately large numbers of women, and in sexually assaulting women
in their offices and institutions.
17. Because psychiatrists, particularly white male psychiatrists, are
homophobic - the American Psychiatric Association (APA) once labelled
homosexuality as a "mental illness" or "mental disorder" - and have used
forced electroshock on lesbians, trying to coerce them into adopting a
heterosexual life style.
18. Because psychiatrists are ageist in prescribing tranquilizers,
antidepressants ("medication") and electroconvulsive brainwashing for
disproportionately large numbers of elderly people - a form of elder abuse.
19. Because psychiatrists are racist in disproportionately incarcerating and
drugging people of African descent, aboringal people, other people of colour
and labelling them "psychotic" or "schizophrenic".
20. Because psychiatrists routinely violate people's civil rights, human
rights and constitutional rights such as imprisoning innocent people without
court trial or public hearing ("involuntary commitment"), and subjecting
them to cruel and unusual punishments or tortures such as forced drugging,
electroconvulsive brainwashing, psychosurgery, solitary confinement,
"chemical restraints", and 4-point or 5-point restraints.
21. Because psychiatrists masterminded the mass murder of hundreds of
thousands of vulnerable people including disabled children, the elderly and
psychiatric patients during The Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and "selected"
hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners for death ("T-4
euthanasia" program) - historical facts still missing in psychiatric
textbooks and histories.
22. Because psychiatrists have willingly participated in and administered
mind-control experiments in the United States and Canada since the early
1950s - its chief targets have been poor patients, women, dissidents and
prisoners.
23. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is
based on the 3 Fs: Fear, Fraud,and Force.
24. Because psychiatry is a form of social control or punishment - not
treatment.
25. Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is
fascist - a direct threat to democracy, human rights and life.
A note from the author:This statement is a slightly revised version of the
original written in Spring 1998. Feel free to add and publish your own
reasons. I am a psychiatric survivor and antipsychiatry activist who has
been involved in the psychiatric survivor liberation movment for 24 years. I
am also co-editor of "Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in
Canada" (1988), host-producer of the antipsychiatry program "Shrinkrap" on
CKLN radio (88.1 FM) in Toronto, member of People Against Coercive Treatment
(P.A.C.T.), and member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).]
PLEASE SNOWBALL, COPY AND PUBLISH THIS STATEMENT INCLUDING THE NOTE. NO
COPYRIGHT OR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
The author, Don Weitz can be reached at his e-mail address:
dwe...@interlog.com
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I think a lot of this is true, but... sometimes people just need a
damned tranquilizer.
Gelly
Dec 27, 2009, 9:01:28 PM12/27/09
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Not everyone knows when they need one for themselves.
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