Tag Archives: psychiatry

Psychiatrists want ‘binge eating’ as official mental disorder-millions of overweight Americans could be profitable target

The American Psychiatric Association is considering including ‘binge eating’ in its diagnostic manual, but to many skeptics, the recognition of binge eating as a psychiatric disorder does nothing but absolve weak-willed people of their responsibility to rein in a dangerous habit. And some suspect that the diagnosis is a sneaky way to sweep an entire nation of over-eaters under psychiatry’s umbrella — and possibly into the marketplace for new drugs.

Irish Times: “Tinseltown gets the big picture on psychiatry – it sucks”

Fourteen of Hollywood’s most secret short films and hundreds of dark exhibits sketch a shameful history of the profession, blaming it for racism, the Holocaust, botched psychosurgery and a world dependent on the pharmaceutical industry. The gist? Psychiatry ain’t no good. Welcome to “PSYCHIATRY: An Industry of Death” museum.

Sen. Grassley’s bill requires disclosure of Pharma $ to doctors, ghost writers & “patient advocacy” groups like NAMI

Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Grassley to require drug, device and biologic manufacturers to report quarterly to the Department of Health and Human Services payments to physicians is part of the health care reform bill passed by the Senate Committee on Finance. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, S.301, would establish the first-ever nationwide requirement for this information to be reported and made publicly available.

The New Face of Psychiatry/Psychology: Mind Manipulation & Social Propaganda get a new name-Perception Management

“Perception management” has morphed into a psychological force of such magnitude that best-selling author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, etc.), was moved to comment before his recent death: “The greatest challenge facing mankind is … distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda…. In the information age (or … the disinformation age) … we must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real.”

VIDEO: PBS Reports Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers and petitioners incarcerated in psych wards just as they were in Soviet Russia

PBS News special report: Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers and government petitioners are being labeled “mentally ill” incarcerated in psychiatric wards and subjected to electroshock—a tactic reminiscent of Soviet Russia and the alliance between psychiatry and the police state. The marriage of psychiatry with communist/socialist and police state regimes has spanned countries across the globe as an effective means to deal with political dissension.