Shannon Brownlee
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 There's an incentive to say we're not going to do psychiatry because we lose money," said Langbaum. "So we really should refuse to admit psychiatry patients and admit more surgery patients. The problem with that is this is a teaching institution, and we can't pick and choose what we will take care of. So we try and develop programs that do make money to [be able to] run the programs that don't make money."
In other words, Hopkins does what all hospitals must do: It uses the profits it makes on some patients to cross-subsidize the care of others. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Journal, the Archives of General psychiatry, is the pro-drug psychiatric arm of the American Medical Association, a pill-pushing organization tarnished by a history of conspiracy against alternative medicine and the promotion of toxic substances like cigarettes with full-page ads in its flagship publication, JAMA.
From the outset, the fact that this study appears in a pro-drug, pro-psychiatry journal should bring pause to any scientific-minded person. |
Jay Joseph
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 By Siever and Gunderson's logic, we should completely disregard the 1968 study's results because the control group was not screened.
Bleuler's description of latent schizophrenia actually was the most useful guide since only those observations, like ours, had been made on individuals not hospitalized or seeking treatment.1
Bleuler did indeed identify the condition in his 1911 book on schizophrenia: "There is also a latent schizophrenia, and I am convinced that this is the most frequent form, although admittedly these people hardly ever come for treatment. |
Mark Sircus
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 Cerebrospinal fluid magnesium and calcium related to amine metabolites, diagnosis, and suicide attempts; Banki et al; Biol psychiatry. 1985 Feb;20(2): 163-71.
24 Treatment of severe mania with intravenous magnesium sulphate as a supplementary therapy. Heiden A et al; psychiatry Res. 1999 Dec. 27; 89(3): 239-46
25 Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes: Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, vitamin D and Fluoride. National Academy Press. Washington, DC, 1999
26 Aging and magnesium; Saito N, Nishivama S; Clin Calcium. 2005 Nov;l5(ll):29-36. |
Jay Joseph
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| In other words, if psychiatrists can reliably identify people with "schizophrenia," as they frequently claim, why do they need biological markers to enable them to identify schizophrenia? According to Merikangas and Risch, "Psychiatric disorder phenotypes, based solely on clinical manifestations without pathognomonic markers, still lack conclusive evidence for the vahdity of classification and the rehabihty of measurement."1 And Kennedy and colleagues wrote that, "the psychoses have nonspecific pleomorphic phenotypes, making diagnosis and nosology difficult. |
| I know that looking in-depth at one issue, particularly where numbers are involved, can test readers' patience. However, it is necessary in this case because the Danish-American results have had a tremendous impact on how the public and professionals view schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.
As I and others have argued elsewhere, the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies contained numerous flaws. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Arch Gen psychiatry 2005 Apr; 62(4):4l7-22.
Innes KE et al. Risk indices associated with the insulin resistance syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and possible protection with yoga: A systematic review. / Am Board Fam Pract 2005 Nov-Dec; 18(6):491-519.
Knowler WC et al. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med 2002 Feb 7; 346(6):393-403.
Ludman E et al. Panic episodes among patients with diabetes. General Hospital psychiatry 2006; 28:475-81.
Lustman PJ, Clouse RE. |
Jay Joseph
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| I am confident that during the upcoming years the heritage of the double helix will help psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and behavioral scientists unlock many secrets of the mind and brain."1
Later in 2003, genetic investigators Lynn DeLisi and Timothy Crow cautioned that the genes cited by Cloninger and Weinberger "have not yet been determined to show specific modification in multiple members with schizophrenia within families. |
| I draw a qualitative distinction between psychiatric conditions such as unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and ADHD, for which medical and biological explanations are dubious, and real diseases of the body, such as cancer and diabetes, for which medical explanations and interventions are essential. Although gene searches for true medical diseases (breast cancer, for example) are often performed at the expense of investigating crucial environmental factors, the tone of this chapter would be far different were I reporting on molecular genetic research in medicine. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 On July 16, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally signed the certificate of appointment, and Alzheimer rose to his chair in psychiatry.
The move fatigued Alzheimer and he became acutely ill on the train journey to Breslau. From the moment he arrived, Alzheimer suffered from exhaustion, experiencing shortness of breath and cardiac palpitations at even the slightest exertion. Lingering symptoms hampered his body, but the doctor, a robust and otherwise vigorous man, still had his mental acuity and pressed on with his work. |
| In 1910, Emil Kraepelin officially coined the term Alzheimer's krankheit ("Alzheimer's disease") when he referred to it for the first time on page 627 of the eighth edition of his authoritative psychiatry textbook. The entry begins with this not-so-illustrious sentence: "The clinical interpretation of Alzheimer's disease is still unclear at the moment. |
| In several months, Alzheimer's lecture in Tubingen appeared, in full, in the General Journal of psychiatry and Psycho-Forensic Medicine under the rubric "Proceedings of Psychiatric Associations." And in early 1907, Alzheimer published a three-page report, "On a Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex," officially presenting the case of Auguste D.'s presenile dementia to the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Soon, millions of children were put on drugs like Prozac, and the great push towards diagnoses of bipolar disorder was underway by the hopelessly corrupt psychiatry industry, which is wholly owned and controlled by Big Pharma.
When a sufficient number of children were drugged with antidepressants and amphetamines (like Ritalin), the drug companies realized there was still one non-drugged entity in a typical household that could potentially become a new revenue source: The family dog. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Arch Gen psychiatry 2005 Apr; 62(4):409-l6.
Eren I et al. The effect of depression on quality of life of patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Depress Anxiety 2007 Feb 20.
Feldman G. Cognitive and behavioral therapies for depression: Overview, new directions, and practical recommendations for dissemination. Psychiatr Clin North Am 2007 Mar; 30(l):39-50.
Georgiades A et al. Study presented at the American Psychosomatic Society annual meeting, Budapest, Hungary, March 2007.
Granath J et al. Stress management: A randomized study of cognitive behavioural therapy and yoga. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In 2006, we reported the results of a study published in the Archives of General psychiatry showing that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide (and to be "successful" at completing the act). See http://www.newstarget.com/020643.html
On September 11, 2006, I reported on the link between antidepressant drugs and violent behavior yet again. (See http://www.newstarget.com/020394.html ) In that article, I explained, "If you're going to alter the brain chemistry of these children, you had better be prepared for the results. The result we're seeing now is mass killings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The logic of psychiatry goes like this: ADHD is a real disease because it's in the DSIM-IV manual (the bible of fictitious psychiatric disorders). ADHD is listed in the DSIM-IV because it's a real disease according to a group of Big Pharma-funded psychiatrists who made it up. Thus, ADHD is real because psychiatrists say is it! (See our related cartoon, Disease Mongers, Inc., to see a humorous depiction of this process.)
Treating children like guinea pigs
Nobody knows the long-term effects of Ritalin use on children. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| At the urgings of his colleagues, Kraepelin had begun publishing his psychiatry textbooks in 1883, and by the twentieth century, these books were known worldwide. Alzheimer eagerly anticipated collaborating with an outstanding researcher and taxonomist like Kraepelin, because Kraepelin shared his belief that mental illness should be predicated on brain pathology rather than Freudian theorizing about the psyche. In addition, he realized that the chances of becoming a university professor would be strengthened by joining forces with such a formidable figure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Yet the FDA chose to single out Scientology's E-meter machine, likely because it perceived the device as presenting a genuine threat to psychiatry's monopoly over mental health treatment.
The FDA, you see, believes it not only regulates foods, drugs, and cosmetics, but also religions. Only "mainstream" religious practices will be allowed, and any such religions that use alternative symbols, rituals, or scriptures will be prosecuted, regardless of what the Constitution says. The rule of law never interferes with the FDA's campaigns of terror.
The history of the U.S. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| S0ren Kierkegaard
In December 1995, my friend Konrad Maurer, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Frankfurt, and two of his colleagues made the discovery of a lifetime. Scouring through the bowels of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Frankfurt University Hospital, Konrad and his colleagues happened upon a cardboard box full of dusty old papers and portfolios—patient records dating back to the mid-twentieth century. Konrad's colleague pulled out a handful of blue-colored cardboard files from the box. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
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 After returning to Harvard as an assistant professor of psychiatry at MacLean Hospital, she came to the University of Arizona where she is currently an associate professor of psychiatry, psychology, and family and community medicine, and is director of research in Dr. Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine.
Since arriving at the University of Arizona in 1992, Iris and I have coauthored more than thirty papers in scientific journals. In addition, Iris conducts systematic research on one of the most controversial areas of modern medicine—homeopathy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ewen Cameron $69,000 to perform LSD studies and potentially lethal experiments on Canadians being treated for minor disorders like post-partum depression and anxiety at the Allan Memorial Institute, which houses the psychiatry Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The CIA encourages Dr. Cameron to fully explore his "psychic driving" concept of correcting madness through completely erasing one's memory and rewriting the psyche. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The diagnosis of depression is therefore leading the profession of psychiatry into "silences about context, [and] minimizing the real life experiences, stories and strengths of the clients that we see."58
In other words, we have medicalized unhappiness. And what is true for adolescents is also true for adults that they come to be. "The fuckin' regularness of life is too fuckin' hard for me," said Tony Soprano in a universal complaint about existential meaninglessness. Tony's basic problem is that "he regards his very being as an inconsequential nothingness. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 A recent editorial in the British Journal of psychiatry, a major journal in its field, calls for abolishing the SD diagnosis and using a term such as "medically unexplained illness" instead. But we'll see how long it takes doctors to come around to this view.
Rather than calling medically unexplained symptoms "nothing wrong," a more rational approach has been to try to come up with clinical case definitions of these disorders; that way, researchers can identify groups of patients to study and apply scientific reasoning (not just opinion) to solve their cases. |
| In contrast to specialists who have to be expert in a tiny part of the body, the family practitioner is a gen-eralist and has extensive training in marrying the principles of psychiatry to those of medicine. The broad training of such doctors makes it less likely that you'll find yourself cut off in midsentence as you describe your symptoms.
Another way to reduce the chances of getting a doctor with the three Bs is to turn to a female physician. It's actually been shown that male doctors tend to be more dismissive of unexplained symptoms than female doctors. |
| An excellent example exists in the field of psychiatry. Back in the early 1960s, schizophrenia was diagnosed four times more often in the United States than in England. Obviously, it's possible that schizophrenia was a lot more common in the United States than in the United Kingdom. But a more probable explanation was that without a diagnostic test to help, doctors in the two countries diagnosed the illness differently. This striking discrepancy was the reason a number of psychiatrists decided to arrive at clinical case definitions for each of the many psychiatric syndromes. |
| Unfortunately, this is an idea that has not yet come of age in psychiatry.
One of the few upsides to depression is that it may cause patients with illnesses like FM to seek medical care. Whenever I diagnose depression in one of my patients, I explain that having depression on top of CFS, FM, or IBS is like turning up the stove under a pot: everything gets hotter. The symptoms of fatigue and pain increase, while the patient's ability to cope with them in the face of other daily demands decreases. So an important component of my evaluation is to consider the possibility of depression. |
| Current thinking in psychiatry is that the best way to treat depression or anxiety is with a combination of one of the new antidepressants and CBT. Fifty-five percent of patients with depression showed improvement when they tried with an SSRI alone; 52 percent got better with CBT alone; but 85 percent showed improvement when both treatments were used. In the same way that CBT improves treatment of depression with antidepressants, I strongly believe that
CBT improves treatment of medically unexplained pain and fatigue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I believe it is time we abolished the industry of psychiatry and its disastrous "treatment" of children with dangerous, mind-altering chemicals. If we continue to allow these profit-minded psych doctors to drug an entire generation with amphetamines, the long-term consequences to society will no doubt be devastating. Children do not need mind-altering drugs to demonstrate normal, balanced behavior. They simply need honest nutrition, responsible parenting and to be kept away from refined sugars, petrochemical food additives and processed foods. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Randomized, placebo- controlled study of ethyl-eicosapentaenoic acid as a supplement treatment in schizophrenia. Am J psychiatry 2002;i59(9):i596-98.
16 Peet M, Brind J, Ramchand CN,and Vankar GK. Two double-blind placebo-controlled studies of eicosapentaenoic acid in the treatment of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 200i;49(3):243-5i.
17 The Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Association with The University of Minnesota and Georgetown University School of Medicine. Food as Medicine:
Integrating Nutrition into Clinical Practice and Medical Education. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| At the new millennium, psychiatry was the fourth largest medical specialty in the United States.8 The best estimate of the number of active clinically trained practicing psychiatrists in the private sector is 45.000,9 only a small proportion of whom (3—6%) restrict themselves to inpatient practice. The specialty has grown rapidly (from 1970 to 2002, the number of psychiatrists increased by 86%), though recent evidence shows a downward reversal of that trend. |
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