By Jon Rappoport
---After
investigating psychiatry for two decades, I'm confident that, if we could go
back and rewrite history, deleting all psychiatrists on the planet, so they'd
never exist---deleting their diagnoses and their drugs---this would have
resulted in a massive upsurge in mental health, moving forward.
The Daily Mail:
"A group of leading psychiatrists told a conference that Donald Trump has
clear hallmarks of mental illness that compromise his role as president.
Twenty-five researchers made a drastic break away from ethical standards by
meeting at Yale University on Thursday to discuss evidence questioning the
commander-in-chief's mental health."
Psychiatrist Allen
Frances, who has played a central role in defining mental disorders, disagrees.
He wrote in the NY Times: "Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled
[Mr. Trump as having] narcissistic personality disorder. He may be a
world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill."
Dr. Frances makes an
interesting point. He distinguishes between behavior and earning a badge for
having a particular mental disorder.
For example, a person
can be sad, but that alone doesn't make him a candidate for the label,
"clinical depression." A person can take aggressive actions against
authority, but that doesn't necessarily mean he is suffering from Oppositional
Defiance Disorder.
Consider the
accusation that Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). What does
that mean? What is the official definition of NPD? Here is an excerpt from the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the official bible
of the American Psychiatric Association. Go ahead, plow through it, it'll only
take a minute:
"The definition
of NPD states that it comprises of a persistent manner of grandiosity, a
continuous desire for admiration, along with a lack of empathy. It starts by
early adulthood and occurs in a range of situations, as signified by the
existence of any 5 of the next 9 standards (American Psychiatric Association,
2013):
- A grandiose logic of
self-importance
- A fixation with fantasies of
infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty, or idyllic love
- A credence that he or she is
extraordinary and exceptional and can only be understood by, or should
connect with, other extraordinary or important people or institutions
- A desire for unwarranted
admiration
- A sense of entitlement
- Interpersonally oppressive behavior
- No form of empathy
- Resentment of others or a
conviction that others are resentful of him or her
- A display of egotistical and
conceited behaviors or attitudes"
"...No actual
physical characteristics are seen with NPD, but patients may have concurrent
substance abuse, which may be seen in the clinical examination."
Got it? Now, think
about this: NOWHERE IN THE DEFINITION IS THERE ANY DEFINING DIAGNOSTIC TEST.
No blood test, urine
test, saliva test, brain scan, genetic assay. Nothing.
What you've just read
is a collection of behaviors. This collection was assembled by a committee of
psychiatrists, who decided that, taken together, they added up to a mental
disorder.
There is no defining
diagnostic test for NPD.
We're talking about psychiatrists
sitting in a room and arbitrarily deciding that a cluster of behaviors adds up
to an official mental disorder.
These psychiatrists
are playing word games. They're inventing so-called mental disorders.
Underneath this story
about Trump and the shrinks, there is a far more important truth. Psychiatrists
are world-class purveyors of fake news. They always have been. Because you
see...
None of the roughly
300 officially certified and labeled mental disorders has a defining diagnostic
test. None.
If you have the
tenacity, read through the whole psychiatric DSM bible and you will see for
yourself.
Or read this brief
exchange. In a PBS Frontline episode, "Does ADHD Exist?" Dr. Russell
Barkley, an eminent professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center, spelled out the fraud clearly.
Here it is.
PBS FRONTLINE
INTERVIEWER: Skeptics say that there's no biological marker---that it [ADHD] is
the one condition out there where there is no blood test, and that no one knows
what causes it.
BARKLEY: That's
tremendously naïve, and it shows a great deal of illiteracy about science and
about the mental health professions. A disorder doesn't have to have a blood
test to be valid. If that were the case, all mental disorders would be
invalid...There is no lab test for any mental disorder right now in our
science. That doesn't make them invalid.
Oh, indeed, that does
make them invalid. Utterly and completely. All 300 mental disorders. Because
there are no defining tests of any kind to back up the diagnosis.
Psychiatrists can
sway and tap dance all they like and they won't escape the noose around their
necks. We are looking at a science that isn't a science.
That's called fraud.
Rank fraud.
Imagine this. You
walk into a doctor's office, you talk with him for a few minutes, and then he
says: "You have cancer. You need to start chemo at once."
After you recover,
you say, "You didn't give me a test."
And he says,
"Well, we don't need a test. We know what the symptoms are because we
convened a high-level meeting of oncologists last year, and we listed the
answers to the questions I just asked you. You gave those telltale answers. So
we start chemo tomorrow. We may also need to surgically remove an organ or two
before we're done."
That's psychiatry.
That's the way it works.
Those boys have quite
a con going. And now, from a few hundred miles away, they've diagnosed a
sitting president.
Well, why wouldn't
they? They've been shucking and jiving all the way to the bank for the entirety
of their professional lives.
Do you like Trump? Do
you hate him? Do you think he's nuts? Sane? Whatever you believe, it has
nothing to do with the official pronouncements of psychiatry.
Psychiatry has become
an arm of technocracy---an attempt to organize society according to a list of
so-called mental disorders parading as science.
Psychiatry is fake
science that can be used to discredit, minimize, accuse, deride, treat (with
alarmingly toxic drugs), and eliminate any individual for any reason.
Now that is a good
example of insanity. Of the criminal variety.
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