[HealthyIndia] 25 Reasons why Psychiatry MUST be Abolished -- Dr. Leo Rebello forward

[Guest guest]

Yes, I agree because clergy is using their power to

influence youth to become terrorists. Only problem is

that how will you ensure that new terrorists are not

created.

But to help a mad or semi-made man to see the truth by

talking to him and influencing him to become a normal

person without the madness, should not be discouraged.

I am no psychiatrist, yet I could successfully talked

some half-mad persons to come out of their deluded

thinking and they did get rid off their ailment and

started behaving like a normal person without having a

fear of what may happen.

 

S. M. Acharya <smacharya

 

--- " Dr. Leo Rebello " <leorebello wrote:

 

> I fully agree with the 25 points of Don Weitz below

> and

> hence sending his article for wider awareness on

> this

> important issue.

>

> Dr. Leo Rebello

>

25 GOOD REASONS WHY PSYCHIATRY

> MUST BE ABOLISHED

>

> by Don Weitz

> www.antipsychiatry.org

>

>

>

> 1. Because psychiatrists frequently cause harm,

> permanent disabilities, death - death of the

> body-mind-spirit.

>

> 2. Because psychiatrists frequently violate the

> Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians " First

> Do No Harm. "

>

> 3. Because psychiatrists patronize and disempower

> people, especially their patients.

>

> 4. Because psychiatry is not a medical science.

>

> 5. Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science

> which lacks independent diagnostic tests, testable

> hypotheses, and cures for " schizophrenia " and all

> other types of alleged " mental illness " or " mental

> disorder " .

>

> 6. Because psychiatrists can not accurately and

> reliably predict dangerousness, violence, or any

> other type of human behaviour, yet make such claims

> as " expert witnesses " , and with the media promote

> the " dangerous mental patient " myth/stereotype.

>

> 7. Because psychiatrists have caused a worldwide

> epidemic of brain damage by promoting and

> prescribing brain-disabling treatments such as the

> neuroleptics, antidepressants, electroconvulsive

> brainwashing (electroshock), and psychosurgery

> (lobotomy).

>

> 8. Because psychiatrists manufacture hundreds of

> " mental disorders " classified in its bible called

> " Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

> Disorders " (a modern witch-hunting manual); such

> " mental disorders " and " symptoms " are in fact

> negative, class-and-culturally-biased moral

> judgments for dissident ways of coping with personal

> problems and alternative ways of perceiving,

> interpreting or being in the world.

>

> 9. Because psychiatrists, blinded by their medical

> model bias, fraudulently pathologize and label

> people's serious life or existential crises as

> " symptoms " of " mental illness " or " mental disorder "

> such as " schizophrenia " , " bipolar affective

> disorder " , and " personality disorder " .

>

> 10. Because psychiatrists compound this fraud by

> falsely claiming, without scientific proof, that

> these " mental disorders " are caused by a

> " biochemical imbalance " in the brain, genetic

> factors or " genetic predispositions " , despite the

> fact that there are no genetic factors in " mental

> illness " .

>

> 11. Because psychiatrists frequently misinform their

> patients, families and the public by claiming that

> brain-disabling procedures such as the neurotoxins

> (e.g., " antipsychotic medication " and

> " antidepressasnts " ), electroconvulsive brainwashing

> (electroconvulsive therapy/ " ECT " ), psychosurgery

> (lobotomy) and other behaviour modification-mind

> control procedures are " safe, effective and

> lifesaving " . The exact opposite is tragically true.

>

> 12. Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie

> to patients, prisoners, their families, and the

> public.

>

> 13. Because psychiatrists routinely and willfully

> violate the medical-ethical principle of " informed

> consent " by misinforming or not informing their

> patients about the numerous toxic, disabling and

> frequently permanent effects of the neuroleptics

> such as memory loss, tardive dyskinesia, tardive

> psychosis, parkinsonism, dementia (all signs of

> brain damage), and death.

>

> 14. Because psychiatrists routinely threaten,

> intimidate or coerce many patients - particularly

> women, children, the elderly, and prisoners - into

> consenting to health-threatening/brain-damaging

> " treatment " such as the antidepressants,

> neuroleptics, electroconvulsive brainwashing, and

> hi-risk experiments.

>

> 15. Because psychiatrists frequently fail to fully

> inform psychiatric inmates and prisoners about

> existing safe and humane, non-medical alternatives

> in the community such as survivor-controlled crisis

> centres, drop-ins, self-help or advocacy groups,

> diet, massage, wholistic medicine, affordable

> supportive housing, and jobs.

>

> 16. Because psychiatrists are sexist in frequently

> stereotyping women in crisis as " hysterical " or

> " over-emotional " , blaming women whenever they voice

> real complaints and assertively express their

> feelings and emotions, prescribing massive doses of

> tranquilizers and antidrepressants to

> disproportionately large numbers of women, and in

> sexually assaulting women in their offices and

> institutions.

>

> 17. Because psychiatrists, particularly white male

> psychiatrists, are homophobic - the American

> Psychiatric Association (APA) once labelled

> homosexuality as a " mental illness " or " mental

> disorder " - and have used forced electroshock on

> lesbians, trying to coerce them into adopting a

> heterosexual life style.

>

> 18. Because psychiatrists are ageist in prescribing

> tranquilizers, antidepressants ( " medication " ) and

> electroconvulsive brainwashing for

> disproportionately large numbers of elderly people -

> a form of elder abuse.

>

> 19. Because psychiatrists are racist in

> disproportionately incarcerating and drugging people

> of African descent, aboringal people, other people

> of colour and labelling them " psychotic " or

> " schizophrenic " .

>

> 20. Because psychiatrists routinely violate people's

> civil rights, human rights and constitutional rights

> such as imprisoning innocent people without court

> trial or public hearing ( " involuntary commitment " ),

> and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishments

> or tortures such as forced drugging,

> electroconvulsive brainwashing, psychosurgery,

> solitary confinement, " chemical restraints " , and

> 4-point or 5-point restraints.

>

> 21. Because psychiatrists masterminded the mass

> murder of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people

> including disabled children, the elderly and

> psychiatric patients during The Holocaust in Nazi

> Germany, and " selected " hundreds of thousands of

> concentration camp prisoners for death ( " T-4

> euthanasia " program) - historical facts still

> missing in psychiatric textbooks and histories.

>

> 22. Because psychiatrists have willingly

> participated in and administered mind-control

> experiments in the United States and Canada since

> the early 1950s - its chief targets have been poor

> patients, women, dissidents and prisoners.

>

> 23. Because psychiatry, particularly

> institutional-biological psychiatry, is based on the

> 3 Fs: Fear, Fraud,and Force.

>

> 24. Because psychiatry is a form of social control

> or punishment - not treatment.

>

> 25. Because psychiatry, particularly

> institutional-biological psychiatry, is fascist - a

> direct threat to democracy, human rights and life.

>

> A note from the author:This statement is a slightly

> revised version of the original written in Spring

> 1998. Feel free to add and publish your own reasons.

> I am a psychiatric survivor and antipsychiatry

> activist who has been involved in the psychiatric

> survivor liberation movment for 24 years. I am also

> co-editor of " Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against

> Psychiatry in Canada " (1988), host-producer of the

> antipsychiatry program " Shrinkrap " on CKLN radio

> (88.1 FM) in Toronto, member of People Against

> Coercive Treatment (P.A.C.T.), and member of the

> Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).]

>

> PLEASE SNOWBALL, COPY AND PUBLISH THIS STATEMENT

> INCLUDING THE NOTE. NO COPYRIGHT OR PERMISSION

> REQUIRED.

>

>

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