"DSM psychiatry manual's secrecy criticized"

Submitted by MR on Mon, 2008-12-29 23:12

Fred and I discussed the APA's DSM-III on episodes of Face Up To Fred that dealt with Parental Alienation.

It's too bad this L.A. Times article (DSM psychiatry manual's secrecy criticized) doesn't address the "gender politics" that goes into some of the DSM's conclusions (in my opinion). Excerpt:

"...the issue carries real weight for parents desperate to address children's difficult behavior or people in distress over their mental state. It also speaks to citizens' concerns over news accounts of an overmedicated America and of the troubling financial links between some psychiatric researchers and the pharmaceutical industry."
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"Darrel Regier, who heads the APA's research arm, said the critics are failing to recognize progress in the field. 'The field of psychiatry has gone from an ideology to a scientific pursuit,' he said."
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"Some critics suspect that a quest for profits has encouraged the field to create mental illnesses out of personality quirks."

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A few years ago there was a woman that wrote an expose about the DSM. She did the research and found that aproximately 98% of all of the research was funded by chemical companies. She also found that the research was contrived to benifit those same companies. The book was published, and there was a brief article about it in the local news paper. She was located in NY I believe. How about we write our own DSM without the influence of the greedy chemical companies? Perhaps we could expose all of the quacks that take our money and try and get us to take chemicals that have permanent physical affects on our brains? Just a thought.

David A. DeLong

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Submitted by David A. DeLong on Tue, 2008-12-30 16:24