Bijzondere quotes van fameuze psychiaters over hun eigen vakgebied
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“Gezien de primitieve eenvoud van hun geest, vallen zij (de massa's) gemakkelijker ten prooi aan een grote leugen dan aan een kleine, omdat zij zelf liegen in kleine dingen, maar zich zouden schamen voor te grote leugens....” Adolph Hitler. Mein Kampf, Vol.1, Ch. 10, 1924 tr. Ralph Manheim, 1943"
Neurologist John M. Friedberg, M.D., said, “I do not believe in mental illness....Psychiatric drugs and electroshock inflict real injury in the name of treating fictive maladies".
Bron: John Friedberg presented this testimony before the Mental Health Committee of the New York State Assembly, a hearing on ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy, Electroshock Therapy) on May 18, 2001.
Prof. Dr. Allen Frances, M.D., “There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.”
Bron: Lead editor and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV, in an interview Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness, by Gary Greenberg, Wired, December 27, 2010, 12:00 PM.
Neurologist Fred A. Baughman, M.D., “There is no such thing whatsoever as a psychiatric or psychological disease.”
Bron: Empathic Therapy Conference April 13-15, 2012 Embassy Suites Syracuse, New York, USA. and Fred Baughman, Insight magazine, June 28, 1999, p. 13.
British psychiatrist Prof. dr. Joanna Moncrieff, M.D., “There is just absolutely no evidence that anyone with any mental disorder has a chemical imbalance of any sort…absolutely none.”
Bron: “Joanna Moncrieff—The Myth of the Chemical Cure; The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV1S5zw096U, at 53 minutes, 52 seconds point, accessed October 11, 2022.
Prof. dr. Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., psychologist, “Nobody should be diagnosed with mental illness”.
bron: lecture 'Diagnosisgate': Scandal After Scandal Since Last Year's NARPA Keynote conference of National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (narpa.org), Embassy Suites, Washington DC Convention Center August 20 - August 23, 2015.
Dr Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Psychiatrist; “For every class of psychiatric drugs, long-term studies have continued to show no proof of effectiveness. … all psychiatric drugs have serious long-term adverse effects and tend to produce chronic brain impairment (CBI).”
bron: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal—A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients, and Their Families (Springer Publishing 2013), pp. 70 & 265
Psychiatrist Dr David Kaiser, M.D., “Modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any single mental illness.”
bron: David Kaiser, MD, Commentary: Against Biologic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Times, Vol 13 No 12, Volume 13, Issue 12 December 1, 1996.
Prof. dr. Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, “Contrary to what is often claimed, no biochemical, anatomical, or functional signs have been found that reliably distinguish the brains of mental patients.”
bron: Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.D., Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health (Free Press 1998), p. 125.
Prof. dr. Dennis S. Charney, M.D. Psychiatry professor, Yale University School of Medicine, “We have so far failed to identify bona fide psychiatric disease genes or to delineate the precise etiological and pathophysiological basis of mental disorders.”
Bron: Dennis S. Charney, M.D. et al., Neurobiology of Mental Illness (Oxford Univ. Press 1999), p. vii.
Dr Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Clinical instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, “In medicine, strict criteria exist for calling a condition a disease. In addition to a predictable cluster of symptoms, the cause of the symptoms or some understanding of their physiology must be established…Psychiatry is unique among medical specialties in that we do not yet have proof either of the cause or the physiology for any psychiatric diagnosis.”
bron: Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.,, Prozac Backlash (Simon & Schuster 2000), pp. 192, 193.
Dr Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), “The weakness” [of the DSM-5] “is its lack of validity….Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.”
bron: Director of top research organization for mental health criticizes DSM for lack of validity, BMJ 2013;346:f2954.
Prof. dr. Thomas Szasz, M.D., from his book “Psychiatry: The Science of Lies,” “The assertion rests on an erroneous premise, namely, that the doctors were interested in distinguishing insane inmates properly committed from sane inmates falsely detained. The whole history of psychiatry belies this assumption. … each time experience was consulted, it showed that the experts were unable to distinguish the sane from the insane”.
Bron: Thomas S. Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness (Harper & Row 1961).
Psychiatrist Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D., “Mental disease…The very term is itself nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental ‘disease’ than you can have a purple idea.” "None of the conditions that we now call mental ‘diseases’ have any known structural or functional changes in the brain which have been verified as causal"
Bron: E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., The Death of Psychiatry (Penguin Books 1974), pp. 38-39.
Psychiatrist Philip Q. Roche, M.D.,“…there is no such thing as mental disease or defect, but rather certain patterns of behavior to which, in a given social context, we apply certain names which enable us to talk about and to effect certain changes in the social relationships of those who exhibit them and to effect changes in the individuals themselves. At best, we are left to the imposition of purely arbitrary criteria in selecting such persons.”
Source: Philip Q. Roche, The Criminal Mind (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1958), p. 253.
Prof. dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, M.D. …psychiatrists prefer to talk about a mental disorder, rather than a mental illness or disease, which is because psychiatric diagnoses are social constructs. Psychiatrists have blown life into a social construct that is nothing but a variation of normal behavior and have given this construct a name, as if it existed in nature and could attack people.”
Source: Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche,M.D., Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial (2015).
Prof. dr. Tomi Gomory, Ph.D. “…we have argued, the existence of a disease of mental illness has never been established.”
bron: Stuart A. Kirk, D.S.W., Tomi Gomory, Ph.D., & David Cohen, Ph.D., Mad Science (Transaction Publishers 2013), pp. 195, 301, 302, 328.
Dr Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., Psychologist; “No biochemical, neurological, or genetic markers have been found for attention deficit disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, compulsive alcohol and drug abuse, overeating, gambling, or any other so-called mental illness, disease, or disorder.”
Bron: Bruce Levine, Ph.D., Commonsense Rebellion (Continuum 2001), p. 277.
Dr. Sidney Sament, a neurologist, “Electroconvulsive therapy in effect may be defined as a controlled type of brain damage produced by electrical means. No doubt some psychiatric symptoms are eliminated…but this is at the expense of brain damage.”
Bron: Sydney Sament, Clinical Psychiatry News, Mar. 1983, http://www.ect.org/effects/psychnews.html.
Chuck Ruby, Ph.D.,Psychologist: “The conventional mental health industry goes to great lengths in an attempt to perpetuate the myth of mental illness ... ISEPP's goal is to dispel the myth of mental illness....The problems we've dubbed mental illnesses are about inter- and intra-personal, spiritual, existential, economic, and political matters, not real disease."
Bron: Chuck Ruby, Ph.D., April 2018 Bulletin of the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry, https://psychintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Apr-2018.pdf
Prof.dr. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, “Why do psychiatrists torture people and call it electroshock therapy?”
Bron: Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing (2012).
Prof.dr. Seymour S. Kety, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience in Psychiatry, and Steven Matthysse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychobiology, “an impartial reading of the recent literature does not provide the hoped for clarification of the catecholamine hypotheses, nor does compelling evidence emerge for other biological differences that may characterize the brains of patients with mental disease.”
Bron: Seymour S. Kety, M.D. & Steven Matthysse, Ph.D. in Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. (ed.), The New Harvard Guide to Psychiatry (Harvard University Press 1988), p. 148.
Dutch psychiatrist Prof. dr. Jim van Os., “Antidepressants are not antidepressants”
Bron: Pharmacologisch Weekblad, 3 oktober 2014 149-40/41).
De fameuze Harvard University Prof.dr. Anne Harrington die als medisch historica concludeert: "Een goed begrip van de belangrijkste mentale ziektes en hun onderliggende biologie blijft het (medische) veld ontglippen...";
Bron: Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness (2019)
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Laatst bewerkt: 17-08-2023