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E. Fuller Torrey Denounces Federal Funding for Consumer groups
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Apr 26, 11:19am
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psychiatry, human-rights, civil-rights, schizophrenia, fuller-torrey
http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/April02/TorreyColumn.htm
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YouTube - Schizophrenia
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Mar 28, 1:35am
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psychiatry, schizophrenia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jYqSA_fJk
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The icon of biological psychiatry (Fuller Torrey) had declared to the medical community (He's not a scientist) and had published in psychiatric literature (as many of his things are) that the structural brain abnormality for schizophrenia had been found, declaring it a legitimate brain disease (Although he does this even when he has no evidence because his bias lies in needing a biological factor to pardon his family's reputation for his sister being schizophrenic) like multiple sclerosis and shortly after scientists discovered that the brain abnormalities he found were actually caused by the drugs used to treat schizophrenics, as they were recreated in monkeys. This is the way bio-psychiatry has always been, and why it should be outlawed. Schizophrenia is only a clinical and societal impression and no I am not a scientologist, and neither are many of the people you may find at the top of this argument so let's forget Tom Cruise for a moment and think.
Read "Blaming the brain" By Elliot Valenstein (Ph.d neuroscientist) for a good explanation of how the biological psychiatry profession got here, "Mad in America" by Robert Whitaker for some perspective of how psychiatry practices. "Madness and civilization" by Michel Foucault for some historical perspectives of how we've got here at all and anything by Thomas Szasz for some logical, political and analogical perspective (You can just read his wikipedia article and perhaps know all you need to know from him)
I believe that psychiatry should be outlawed, those practicing it be imprisoned and people having anything to do with TAC, NIMH and the APA be imprisoned. This is no different now on schizos than it had ever been with blacks or gays who were also struck by that profession and its supporters in no different way. They medicalize symptoms characteristic of that people, provide pseudoscientific rhetoric to make them the specialist to treat it, and apply whatever treatment they have for it at that time until they are stopped (They are most empowered today by the drug industries). Throughout practically all the time they have operated they have had a hypothesis or a theory and attest that what they don't know will eventually be found to justify what they do and tell the public -- when fought back against hard enough by oppositional claims that they can no longer sneak away from -- that science is a work in progress and reassert their scientific validity to the masses most of which believe to be completely unaffected by it anyway or may even dislike the so called crazies and approve of bio-psychiatry and neuroleptic drug use even knowing its truths.
Throughout its whole history psychiatry has been on a foundation of poor logic, unscrupulous practice and social, political and financial influence and for this it should no longer be tolerated. It is not scrupulous medicine and it is not derived of genuine scientific principle, It is a way to discredit and control the types of people who do not fit within the structure of society. It must be seen for what it is so long as human beings taught as children they were living in a free and triumphant society are being oppressed, controlled and even tortured and harmed on neuroleptic drugs for believably supposed medical issues. This is not just a medical or existentialism issue, It's a civil rights, human rights and matter of truth issue that needs to be taken very seriously, very quickly and by everybody.
For the suffering I and many others have endured at the feet of biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs -- as well as the social and civil difficulties and psychological trauma -- societies ignorance is no excuse and their reluctance to even study the topic is a responsible factor in the suffering and a invalidation of the hardships endured by those labeled mentally ill and treated that way.
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