Globe & Mail: “Is Psychiatry A Failure?” (for the record, we vote yes…)

Two new books attack big pharma and lazy doctors for not doing enough to help patients. Sometimes talk, not drugs, is all a person needs.

It will certainly be interesting to see what impact, if any, their kind of critique will have on the DSM-V , slated for 2012. In the meantime, here’s a script from a philosopher: Read Paris and Bentall and feel wiser, or certainly more sober, in the morning. I recommend both books to specialists and lay readers alike.

The Mothers Act: Disease Mongering at Its Best

“Disease mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources, and causes iatrogenic harm,” Ray Moyniahan and David Henry warn in the April 11, 2006 paper in PLoS Med, titled, “The Fight against Disease Mongering,” in words that certainly apply to the Mothers Act campaign.

Chinese Health Ministry: Internet addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn’t work.

According to the ministry, there is no clinical evidence to show ECT, normally used to treat severe depression, has an effect on internet addiction.

New book Doctoring the Mind says psychiatric diagnoses inaccurate, drugs over prescribed; psychiatry has failed

Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall takes issue with the mainstream psychiatric view that mental problems are genetically determined brain diseases that must be treated with drugs. The diagnoses are inaccurate, the genetics and neurobiology overstated, and the drugs oversold and overprescribed. Bentall pulls no punches: “Psychiatry has failed.”

Former Exec for Eli Lilly blows the whistle on Pharma industry with latest book, “Side Effects: Death”

Dr. John Virapen has been working for more than 30 years for the pharmaceutical industry, as manager for Eli-Lilly and Novo Nordisk. There have been years of withheld information regarding the adverse side effects of pharmaceuticals promoted by Eli Lilly.

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