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The Tyranny of Psychiatry
Carmela Amankwaah
University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyFall 2009
Clip ~ Violence Teaser
Introduction
CCHRint. Psychiatry's Prescription for Violence Teaser
“Anti - Psychiatry”
The Age of Enlightenment
Psychiatrists
Marxist Intellectuals
Anarchists
Political leaders
The Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation ~ 1967, London
Thomas, Philip & Bracken, Patrick (2004)
Dr. David Cooper {1931 - 1986} South African Psychiatrist
Coined the term “anti-psychiatry”
Marxist Revolutionary
Wrote numerous essays against psycho-politics
Encouraged revolution against orthodox psychiatry
“Madness” and “Psychosis” were products of society
“Knowing what ain’t so” – Thomas Szasz (2005)
Dr. Ronald D. Laing {1927 - 1989}
Scottish Psychiatrist
Critic of psychiatric diagnoses as biological phenomena
Co-founded a community based psychiatric facility for schizophrenics (Kingsley Hall)
Author of numerous books on mental health“Knowing what ain’t so” – Thomas Szasz (2005)
Dr. Leon Redler & Dr. Joseph Berke
“Knowing what ain’t so” – Thomas Szasz (2005)
“The trouble with people, is not whatthey don’t know but that they know so
much that ain’t so.”
- Josh Billings, American humorist
CCHR Conference - Dr. Szasz
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
CCHRint. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychology Emeritus.
Dr. Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Szasz
Born on April 15, 1920 in Budapest – Hungary.
1944 - Medical Degree from University of Cincinnati.
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, certificate, 1950.
Member: American Psychiatric Association (fellow), American Psychoanalytic Association.
The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry The Theology of Medicine
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry -State University of New York.
www.szasz.com
The Myth of Mental IllnessPart One:
Hysteria: Differences between body illnesses from their imitations.
Psychiatry is a pseudo-science. Nonsensical to treat behaviors using a
medical approach Mental Illness as a fallacy.
Part Two: Man’s Responsibility Development of Moral Thinking Moral Issues in psychiatry and psychology
Szasz, Thomas (1961). The Myth of Mental Illness
“Mental Illness”The Convenient Myth
Age of Faith: Religion mimics Science
Age of Science: Psychiatry mimics
Science
Szasz, Thomas (2006). The Pretense of Psychology as Science
“Mental Illness” Does not Exist!
The Implications of Semantics
What is an Illness?
Biological deviation from the norm
Cancer
Body Temperature
Hypertension
Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness
“It takes one person to develop a real disease. But it takes two people to
develop a mental illness”
- Dr. Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz. cchr.org
What is a “Mental Illness”?
Psychological deviation from the Norm?
Psychological Norms - tied to cultural, social, ethical, and legal contexts.
Depression Anxiety Divorce Vengeance
Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness
Diagnosing “Mental Illness”Psychiatrist/
Psychotherapist is an “active participant”.
Diagnoses are subjective.
Influenced by psychosocial and ethical constraints.
Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness
Treating “Mental Illness” Assumptions
Problems with daily living – pathological.
“Patients” are not responsible.
Claims objective and value-free diagnoses.
Behavioral deviations are biological/neurological conditions.
Existing biological tests.
Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness
“Mental Illness” -- Behavioral Maladjustment
If not Nature, then Nurture.
Lose term for describing the manifestation of mankind's struggle to live.
Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness
On Obscenity
“ . . . I know it when I see it . . .”
-- Justice Potter Stewart - 1964
Becoming Real Doctors
Diagnoses (Labels)
Manual ~
Treatment (Psychotropic drugs)
The DSM
Thomas Szasz. cchr.org
Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Companies
“Conjoined twins joined at the wallet”
-Kay Carlson former drug rep. cchr.org
“Effects” of Psychotropic Drugs
Dry mouth
Dizziness
Increase in appetite
Agitation
Sedation - lethargy
Photosensitivity
Rash
Insomnia
Activation of mania
Hypomania
Suicide
Seizures
Aggressive attention-
seeking behavior
Involuntary dizziness,
Lightheadedness
Psychosis
Gastrointestinal complaints
cchr.org
Breeding Violence
Breeding ViolenceSchool Shooters on Drugs
Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak killed 5 ~ Xanax
Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed 9 ~ Valium
Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinend
killed 8 ~ antidepressants
Cleveland - October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon killed 1, wounded 4 ~ Trazodone
Blacksburg, Virginia – April 16, 2007: The psychiatric drug history of Seung-Hui Cho
in the Virginia Tech Massacre was never made public.~ “depression medication”
Lake, Minnesota – March 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, killed 10 ~ Prozac.
New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano opened fire on school mates ~
“medication for depression”.
CCHR.org. List of School and Teen Shooters
Breeding ViolenceSchool Shooters on Drugs
Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper, opened fire in school ~ SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin
Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, killed 4 ~ Prozac
El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, opened
fire on classmates ~ Celexa and Effexor
Pennsylvania – March 7, 2000: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush shot fellow
students ~ Prozac
Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon, shot and wounded 6 ~
andti depressants
Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold,
killed 13~ Luvox (Harris)CCHR.org. List of School and Teen Shooters
The Facts 100 million people worldwide are on psychotropic
medications.
As of 2009 17 million children are prescribed psychotropic drugs.
580% increase (from 1995) in anti-depressant prescription for children under 6 yrs old.
3000 psychotropic-related deaths per year (world wide).
http://www.fightforkids.org/facts.html
Cui Bono? (Who Benefits?)
Dissonance between the nature of Mental Disorders (behavioral) and their Treatment (biological).
Pharmaceutical Companies
Psychiatrists/Psychotherapists
Families?
Patients?
WHY???
Conclusions ~ So What?
Effect of Psychiatry on Psychology
Paradigm Shift
Critical Psychiatry
Instrumental Sources Citizens Commission
on Human Rights
Survivors Speak Out
National Self-Harm Network
The Hearing Voices
Network, Mad Pride and Mad Women
Depressed Parrot on Prozac
telegraph.co.uk
References Biley, Francis C. (2009). Review: Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of
Madness. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Vol 16, 214 - 223
CCHRint. Psychiatry's Prescription for Violence Teaser. September 05, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-9aYvTtIw&feature=channel.
CCHRint. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychology Emeritus. February 16, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQegsqYhuZE&feature=related . Retrieved April, 25, 2009.
CCHR.org. List of School and Teen Shooters. White Papers. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
Duncan B. Double (2004). Biomedical Bias of the American Psychiatric Association. Ethical Human Psychohgy and Psychiatry, Vol. 6, 2.
Fight for Kids. http://www.fightforkids.org/facts. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
John A. Vernon Joseph H. Golec, Randall Lutter and Clark Nardinelli (2006). FDA New Drug Approval Times, Prescription Drug User Fees, and R & D Spending.
Szasz, Thomas. (2005) Knowing What Ain't So - R.D Laing and Thomas Szasz. Existential Analysis 16.1.
References Szasz, Thomas. www.szasz.com Retrieved April 25, 2009. Szasz, Thomas (1961). The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of
a Theory of Personal Conduct Szasz, Thomas (2006). The Pretense of Psychology as Science:The
Myth of Mental Illness in Statu Nascendi Telegraph News (November 2008). Parrot Given Prozac After
Owner Dies. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3487321/Parrot-given-Prozac-after-owner-dies.html
Thomas, Philip and Bracken, Patrick (2004). Critical Psychiatry in Practice. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. vol. 10, 361 - 370.