Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pederson: Absolutely. The american psychiatric association has basically endorsed light therapy for use not only for seasonal depression or Seasonal Affective Disorder, but also for a range of other disorders, including sleep disorders and delayed phase sleep syndrome -- which can affect teenagers -- and, there are a lot of different applications for seniors, and there's more emerging everyday.
Mike: How does light therapy actually work at a physiological level? You talked about receptors in the eye. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 In the fourth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the american psychiatric association describes three different categories of ADHD—ADHD inattentive, ADHD hyperactive-impulsive, and a third category that is a combination of the two. For the sake of simplicity, we will use the term ADD when referring to the inattentive form without hyperactivity, and ADHD for the hyperactive-impulsive and combined forms.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that between 3 and 5 percent of children in the United States have ADHD. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 About the same time as adult golfers were teeing off for the Shire-sponsored CHADD charity classic, Shire was releasing the results of a survey at the giant american psychiatric association congress in
New York, detailing what were described as the devastating emotional difficulties facing millions of adults with ADD.24 Shire was of course also one of the sponsors of the psychiatrists' congress, setting up a large display in the exhibit area, tastefully decorated with potted palms and fresh white flowers. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Guilford Publications and the american psychiatric association.56
The Specialty Which Refuses to Disclose Financial Conflicts of Interest
I hope you were startled by the research I shared a few pages back (p. 97) which found that medical school students (our future doctors) "regard the pharmaceutical industry as one of their most important sources of pharmaceutical information." I hope you were also stunned by the fact that Dr. Davidson has received money from nearly every major antidepressant drug manufacturer in America and Europe. |
Jay Joseph
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 A book produced by the american psychiatric association and revised periodically. Attempts to define and standardize diagnostic categories. The categories used in the DSM are accepted by most official organizations including hospitals, insurance companies, and other institutions.
Dual MatingStudy. A study assessing the prevalence of a disorder among the biological offspring of two parents diagnosed with the same disorder.
Endophenotype (Biological Marker). A genetically-based neurobiological observable trait related to the assumed or proven molecular genetic basis of a disorder. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Ross, MD, psychiatrist
The Evidence
Though numerous researchers have rejected the theory that mental problems are caused by some disease or chemical imbalance, the american psychiatric association, most physicians and most of the American public continue to hold to this belief. The evidence for the theory is found in studies that are commonly discussed not just by the drug manufacturers' literature but by the textbooks used to educate psychologists, nurses and medical doctors. |
| But the research makes it clear that we should not think in terms of nearly 400 different mental disorders (the number of mental disorders identified by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), but rather we should think in terms of a continuum. Do what leads to good mental health, and you will improve your mental health. Do what leads to poor mental health, and you will move toward the poor mental health end of the continuum. |
| The technical definition comes from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., and reads as follows:
Schizophrenia is a disorder that lasts for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of active-phase symptoms (i.e. two [or more] of the following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms.)2 less access to antipsychotic drugs have much higher recovery rates than do those in the United States and other wealthy nations who are prescribed these drugs. |
| The American Journal of Psychiatry, the official journal of the american psychiatric association, will typically have over 50 pages(!) of drug ads before the articles begin. As you might suspect, they refuse to require authors who own stock in the drug companies whose drugs they research and write about to disclose these or any other financial ties.
No specialty has more financial conflicts of interest than does psychiatry. Allowing this system to continue as is is unconscionable. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 The DSM IV's diagnostic criteria for ADHD were developed by a committee put together by the american psychiatric association, who also publish the DSM. It consisted of 12 psychiatrists, 4 psychologists, and no pediatricians, which means that nobody with ongoing experience of primary care issues in children participated. Despite this glaring lack of input, the Task Force of the American Academy of Pediatrics accepted the DSM IV as the basis for making ADHD determinations in children. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| A specialist makes the diagnosis by comparing a person's behavior pattern against a set of criteria established by the american psychiatric association. These criteria are as follows:
1. The person has either six inattention symptoms or six hyperactivity and impulsiveness symptoms.
Symptoms of inattention include:
• Does not pay close attention to details or makes careless mistakes.
• Has trouble keeping attention on activities.
• Does not seem to listen when spoken to.
• Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish tasks.
• Has difficulty organizing tasks and activities. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| Debra Zarin, representing the american psychiatric association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, testified on July 16, 1996, before a Congressional subcommittee conducting a hearing on federal responses to issues involving the treatment of ADHD, that, "It is a commonly held misconception that if a stimulant calms a child, that he must have ADHD; if he didn't have the disorder, the thinking goes, the medication would not have any effect. That is not true. Stimulants increase attention span in normal children as well as those with ADHD. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 After his expression of a heretical view, the mental health movement's high priests promptly went into action. The american psychiatric association and the National Alliance for the Mentally III, both heavily funded by drug companies, assured the public Mr. Cruise was wrong and the mentally ill need and benefit from their daily psychiatric drugs.
However, neither the APA, nor NAMI, nor Miss [Brooke] Shields offered any credible scientific evidence to support their claims that depressed people have a bona fide chemical imbalance that is cured by antidepressant drugs. |
| The Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual (DSM-IV) published by the american psychiatric association and used by licensed psychotherapists throughout the country is notorious for low scientific validity. Yet it is instrumental in securing insurance reimbursement for psychotherapy services..."4
And Herb Kutchins of California State University, Sacramento, and Stuart A. |
| The psychiatric community has not published a manual describing what is "normal," but, rather, the american psychiatric association (APA) has put pen to paper for the purpose of diagnosing what the organization considers abnormal behaviors - mental disorders - that require "treatment," which, more often than not, comes in the form of prescribing a number of dangerous, potentially life-threatening, mind-altering psychiatric drugs. And, as the theory goes, the chemicals (psychiatric drugs) will "help" the individual be "better. |
| Until the psychiatric community is called upon to provide conclusive scientific evidence that the nearly 400 disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA's) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) are not merely subjective clinical diagnoses but rather objective, confirmable abnormalities of the brain, the debate surrounding the benefit or risk of psychotropic drugs seems moot. |
| What is known is that neither the american psychiatric association nor the National Institute of Mental Health nor any other medical organization is capable today of making available scientific evidence to prove that any psychiatric disorder is an objective, confirmable abnormality of the brain.
This mantra is repeated throughout the book because it is the point of the book. That people are suffering isn't in question. |
| Sydney Walker III, author of A Dose of Sanity, wrote "the american psychiatric association is literally built on a foundation of drug money," which that influence, he says, "has focused on expanding the number of 'psychiatric disorders' recognized by the APA, and the number of drug treatments recommended for these disorders. After all, every DSM 'diagnosis,' is a potential gold mine for pharmaceutical firms." 8
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Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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| Back at the american psychiatric association congress in New York, it seems No Free Lunch is yet to have a big impact. Tonight the psychiatrists are scheduled to listen to a thoughtleader in the Sheraton's Imperial Ballroom tell them about anxiety disorders.68 Cultivating a stable of thought-leaders is a key part of the industry's marketing strategies, whether for depression or any other condition. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| The American Psychiatric Association's president responded that Cruise's comments were irresponsible.4 St. Louis psychiatrist Charles Conway declared, "I was shaking my head in disbelief.... It's safe to say that we know that metabolic changes in the brain are present for all major mental illnesses."5
Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Coyle responded by defending the role of genes, an essential component of the chemical imbalance view. "Scientists have identified some genes that clearly play a role in causing mental illnesses such as depression."6 A psychiatrist at Washington University in St. |
Mike Adams
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 In this case, a joint report by the American Diabetes Association, american psychiatric association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the North American Association for the study of Obesity complained that an entire class of antipsychotic drugs increases the risk of diabetes. Take the drugs for your head, and lose your pancreas.
A manufacturer of one of these drugs said that basically, this isn't news: these side effects are well-known in the medical community. If they are well-known, why are these drugs still allowed to be prescribed? |
Greg Critser
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 In a symposium entitled "Development of School-based Adolescent Depression Awareness Program," presented at the annual convention of the american psychiatric association, researchers noted two trends in "depression literacy" among kids and educators. One was that there was an increase in the number of kids who said "no" when asked if they agreed with the statement "Medicine should not be used to treat mental illness. |
| In a media alert at the 2003 convention of the american psychiatric association, the public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, hired by McNeil Pharmaceuticals, set down the new touchstone: "What do D's in school, increased risk of driving accidents, substance abuse, and jumping from job to job have in common? All could be the serious consequences of not managing and treating ADHD in all life stages." The answer was Concerta, McNeil's new once-a-day compound for the disorder. Lilly, too, had its own entrant into the adult ADD field. |
| By 2003, Lilly was so assured of the drug's impending approval that it hired a powerful New York public relations firm just to walk the aisles of the annual convention of the american psychiatric association and hand out the results of the studies. The company employed a troop of PR specialists to work the financial and health press, confidently predicting that approval was (their words to me) "just around the corner." Lilly analysts pegged their sales forecasts for Cymbalta at $2 billion a year.
The hype notwithstanding, by late 2003 Lilly had run into a number of unanticipated setbacks. |
| At the 2002 meeting of the prestigious american psychiatric association, an exhibit by the makers of a powerful drug for schizophrenia showed psychiatrists "how your patients feel." Set up inside the cavernous Moscone Center in San Francisco, the company's giant pavilions invited the curious to come in and sit down. Once inside, bar-raged by video, audio, and even weather-simulation machines, psychiatrists could experience how a schizophrenic who had forgotten to take his meds might feel when riding a public bus. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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| Against this backdrop of uncertainty and debate about the very definition and meaning of PMS, in the mid 1980s a small group of psychiatrists and others working with the american psychiatric association came together to try to define a new condition. The idea was to separate out normal premenstrual complaints from a severe form of mood disturbance that came and went every month, but was serious enough in some women to be disabling and warrant treatment. The group was pulled together by the imposing figure of Dr. |
| As the clouds and mist of an early May morning swirl around the rooftops of Manhattan, thousands of psychiatrists stream into a giant midtown convention center to learn about the latest in scientific developments, at the annual congress of the american psychiatric association, the APA. On their way in they couldn't have missed the massive billboards advertising the meeting, adorned with the name of one of the congress's key sponsors, Pfizer, the maker of the world's top-selling antidepressant, Zoloft. |
Greg Critser
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| That changed in 1980, when the american psychiatric association for the first time listed ADD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The DSM did not list a cause for ADD. There has, in fact, never been a consensus about what causes the disorder. There was no test for it. But one thing was known: children with ADD who took Ritalin got better — sometimes dramatically and almost always for short periods of time, sometimes longer. The drug thus became the diagnosis. If one responded to Ritalin, one "had" ADD. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 Perhaps the most heinous manifestation of this scientific medievalism has been the elimination of the term psychosomatic from recent editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the official publication of the american psychiatric association. One might as well eliminate the word infection from medical dictionaries.
This astonishing state of affairs—scandalous really—did not occur overnight. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 The american psychiatric association attempted to suppress our work several years later. We had published a paper in 1967 describing the results of treatment on five California patients. The patients had failed to respond to the best treatment they could get in California, including psychoanalysis, family therapy, medication, and so on. One of them came to us for treatment, and the rest were treated in California by other orthomolecular physicians. They all recovered. One of this group is now a research psychiatrist. |
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