Gene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited

June 19, 2009

_Gene Theory for Depression Is Now Discredited_

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A study that attempted to replicate the " seminal " study that laid the

foundation for psychiatry's " serotonin theory " of depression, claiming a

genetic- serotonin impairment underlying depression, has been debunked by the

data from 14 similar studies claiming a genetic underpinning to depression.

Dr. Kenneth Kendler, a prominent authority on psychiatry and human genetics

at Virginia Commonwealth University, says that the new study " really takes

the wind out of its sales " referring to the widely accepted claim that

depression is linked to a genetic predisposition. Psychiatry is replete with

invalid biochemical assumptions--that are, upon examination, contradicted by

the data and life experience. But not before those false assumptions have

spurred the use of extremely toxic, harmful interventions that have caused

patients irreparable physiological and mental harm. The myths crafted by

psychiatry in collusi on with drug manufacturers about the clinical superiority

and cost-effectiveness of the atypical antipsychotics--which were deemed

" very safe & effective " was shattered by the results of the NIMH-sponsored

CATIE schizophrenia outcomes study, which documented the drugs' intolerable

effects and lack of clinical efficacy.

Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP/Benedict Carey, New York Times

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