I’m including The Hippocratic Oath here so that one can understand the original standard that has been set for the medical field. Please note that psychiatrists are trained medical doctors and should be abiding by this code as would any Read more…
As my kids grow I try as much as possible to expose them to cultural references that I think are valuable. Obviously, these are things that I think are valuable but I do like to think that I’ve learned something in all my years. I was talking to my youngest son about a couple of books the other day along this line. (more…)
In this blog I will be doing some comparisons of psychiatry to terrorism. One of the first steps would be to clearly define each and their stated goals. As the subject of terrorism has been at the forefront these past few years, we’ll start there. There is no shortage of material on the net about terrorists and their goals. I found one site that has some interesting information here: Terrorism Research
First, let us define terrorism: (more…)
We were sitting at dinner the other night discussing an article about the number of deaths attributed to Prozac over the last 20 years or so. This particular article mentioned the deaths as a result of Prozac were in the neighborhood of 20,000. This is a staggering number! My brother-in-law piped up and (more…)
“The mental health establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the most unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human beings in distress, calls this ‘medical treatment’, and then blames the outcome on ‘mental illness’.– Seth Farber, PhD. Even Read more…
The following quote is by Benjamin Rush, the first President of the American Psychiatric Association. I don’t know about you but I would not want someone trained with this point of view to see to the mental or physical health Read more…