Tag: schizophrenia

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Economic Manuscripts: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a “chemical imbalance” to a “brain circuitry defect.” There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing, “The idea of mental illness as a ‘chemical imbalance’ has now given way to mental illnesses as ‘connectional’ or brain circuit disorders.”

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Placebo effect for all psychiatric diagnoses “of considerable magnitude”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In a new study, researchers found huge improvements in psychiatric symptoms on placebo alone, particularly for depression and anxiety. They included the 10 least biased, most recent randomised controlled trials for nine common diagnoses in their attempt to quantify the improvements that could be expected without treatment.

Placebo effect for all psychiatric diagnoses “of considerable magnitude” (archived)

Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural.

Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry

Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Source: Talk World Radio: Bruce Levine on Psychiatry and Spinoza

About 60% of the authors had financial ties to industry, which are not disclosed in the DSM. Studies show that conflicts of interest lead to pro-industry decision-making.

Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors

H/T: Unorthodox Truth

Previously:

Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatry’s Antidepressant Coffin

CIA Experimented on Hundreds of Orphans, Torturing Them to Reveal Psychopathic Traits—Report

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

According to a new documentary out of Denmark, which interviewed former victims, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly carried out experiments on 311 orphaned children. The experiments were meant to reveal psychopathic traits and map out the link between schizophrenia and heredity. According to the report, the children were tortured in clear violation of the Nuremberg Code of 1947 that introduced ethical restrictions for experiments on humans.

CIA Experimented on Hundreds of Orphans, Torturing Them to Reveal Psychopathic Traits—Report

H/T: Aletho News