Treatments Without Diseases
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In the psychiatrically correct view, mental illnesses are “just like bodily illnesses”; in fact, they are authoritatively declared to be “brain diseases.” The truth is that they are not. In medicine, there are diseases and, sometimes, treatments for them. In psychiatry, there are no diseases, nevertheless there are always treatments, that is procedures declared to be “therapies” for what, in fact, are diagnoses. The disanalogy between bodily disease and mental disease generates many confusions, perhaps most importantly the false belief that antipsychotic drugs function analogously to antibiotic and antihypertensive drugs.
There are objective criteria to determine whether a person has or does not have, say, a case of acute gonorrhea. This makes it reasonable to ask whether an antibiotic drug, say penicillin, is effective against gonorrhea. However, it is not reasonable to ask whether an antipsychotic drug, say Zyprexa, is effective against schizophrenia, because there are no objective criteria to determine whether a person has or does not have this alleged disorder. This is why it is futile to debate whether one or another psychotropic drug "works." All we can know is whether a particular mental patient likes or does not like to take a particular psychotropic drug; whether a particular family member likes or do not like his "loved one" to receive a particular psychotropic drug; and so forth.
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There are objective criteria to determine whether a person has or does not have, say, a case of acute gonorrhea. This makes it reasonable to ask whether an antibiotic drug, say penicillin, is effective against gonorrhea. However, it is not reasonable to ask whether an antipsychotic drug, say Zyprexa, is effective against schizophrenia, because there are no objective criteria to determine whether a person has or does not have this alleged disorder. This is why it is futile to debate whether one or another psychotropic drug "works." All we can know is whether a particular mental patient likes or does not like to take a particular psychotropic drug; whether a particular family member likes or do not like his "loved one" to receive a particular psychotropic drug; and so forth.
READ THE REST OF THE ESSAY HERE: http://www.alisterpaine.com/treatments.html
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"I maintain that neither mental illness nor psychiatric drugs cause suicide or murder. Killing -- oneself or others -- is a voluntary act for which the actor is responsible."
I generally agree with the ethical considerations the writer raises, yet I sincerely wonder if this writer has properly entertained schitzophrenia, or possibly other known disorders.
- 2 years ago
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