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“Most psychiatric drugs can cause withdrawal reactions, sometimes including life-threatening emotional and physical withdrawal problems… Withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done carefully under experienced clinical supervision.” Dr. Peter Breggin
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Oct 12, 2012

Misunderstanding Psychiatry (and philosophy) at the Highest Level Bullshit II

 
"to paraphrase a line from the film Cool Hand Luke—
“What we got here is a failure to communicate!"
No doc, what we got here is Bullshit. 


WARNING:
Believing Bullshit activates Bullshit's placebo effect.
Bullshit is safe and effective. 
That's NO BULLSHIT! 

Learned scholars who write defensive Bullshit in response to criticism
may be Bullshit Artists disguised as psychiatrists...

Supposedly, "learned scholars" are psychiatry's academic elite, and Key Opinion Leaders; i.e. the idiots who seem to believe strongly held opinions are evidence of validity, idiots who have distorted clinical drug trial data; researchers who used biased, or otherwise unethical methodology when structuring how a clinical trial is conducted and how results are reported. Commonly, these elite research psychiatrists report their corrupt work in "peer reviewed" professional journals, at professional conferences, and teach their corrupted work product at Institutions of Higher Learning and Continuing Medical Education programs, and use it as if it is valid information when authoring medical textbooks . 


In reality, these research psychiatrists lied by exaggerating the benefits and downplaying the risk profiles for the psychotropic drugs they used in clinical trials. Consequently, people have died; including children who were prescribed teratogenic drugs to "treat" a brain "disorder," "disease" or "chemical imbalance" i.e. a psychiatric diagnosis. Kids and their parents were basically (mis)informed by psychiatrists who told patients, faimily members and the general public that the psychiatric diagnosis requires "medical treatment" with teratogenic drugs. Since there has been no pathology or dysfunction actually identified, this is a fraudulent claim. The children are then "treated" with neurotoxic drugs which can actually cause dysfunction, i.e. iatrogenic dysfunction and iatrogenic diseases. After psychiatric treatment with neurotoxic drugs, many children and adolescents develop recognizable brain disorders and other diseases, drug-induced iatrogenisis.

I am not a doctor, but I could play one on TV. I'm not (mis)educated and have not been adjudicated by a court (mis)informed by a psychiatrist, i.e. a bullshit artist. I can explain the "misunderstanding" to the (mis)educated; which should clarify any misunderstanding. I'll explain the philosophy first, then the psychiatry. 

Who is right about the science---is not what matters most. What matters most is what is being done to real human beings behind the indiscriminate, prolific prescription of drugs; i.e. the Real World Outcomes of psychiatric patients. Psychotropic drugs were FDA approved based on utter Bullshit in some cases. Then, the "Highest Level" Bullshit artists, i.e. Academic psychiatrists, Key Opinion Leaders, peer-review Journal editors publish, but never retract Bullshit from their 'professional' journals, once identified as biased, unethical and/or fraudulent. The 'professional journals' are 'resources' in the "evidence-base" that is being used by psychiatrists and other professionals who prescribe psychotropic drugs to patients according to Bullshit contained in psychiatry's corrupted "evidence base."

Holy Cow! Psychiatric Standard Treatment Protocols based on Bullshit is what Pies is defending! Pies defends the various unethical psychiatrists who are Bullshit artists,who are considered leaders in the "medical" specialty of psychiatry despite their lack of ethical medical principles and a refusal to adhere to ethical  research standards?! WTF kind of willful blindness allows a group of 'medical professionals' to utterly and completely fail to hold colleagues accountable for unethical behavior? A professional association  that does not discredit, discipline, or even censure individual psychiatrists for unethical conduct, is itself unethical. Psychiatrists with questionable ethical integrity are not questioned for ethical lapses, but are given positions of power and authority representing professionals in psychiatric professional associations and teach in institutions of Higher Learning. Unethical psychiatric researchers are not held accountable, criminal behavior is not censured; instead, it's rewarded with federal grants to conduct more research. The academic elite have harmed patients and have intentionally misinformed other professionals which has led untold millions of patients to be iatrogenically harmed by the dissemination of bullshit by Bullshit Artists; the KOLs and "thought leaders" who are the "Medical Professionals" who rely on corrupt data, defend corrupt data, use unethical standards of care and defend unethical psychiatrists who are purposely perpetrating and carelessly perpetuating medical fraud. 


Since it is psychiatrists at the 'Highest Level' who consistently and vehemently defend unethical psychiatric bullshit, is it any wonder psychiatry is not considered a "real" medical specialty by some victims, survivors and critics of all of this psychiatric bullshit? Why would anyone believe psychiatric bullshit is based on  any scientific evidence, or a medical finding? Only a psychiatrist, a Bullshit Artist, would think a huge steaming load of Psychiatric Bullshit-based medicine is in a patient's "best interest." It's a poor substitute for ethical medical treatment which actually requires obtaining a patient's fully informed consent. No Bullshit!


Now there's a philosophy right there!
Some psychiatrists at the "Highest Level" seem to lack ethical integrity altogether...
No Bullshit!



4 out of 5 psychiatrists at the Highest Level recommend that professionals who prescribe neurotoxic drugs to children and adolescents 'off-label' take 'Ethic-Eze' to suppress professional judgement and ethical conduct.
Off Label psychotropic prescriptions: the right financial prescription for psychiatry and for pHARMa !


Philosophically, it doesn't matter, whose analysis is correct. Real World Outcomes matter. For the patients, treatment outcome matters most. In the aggregate, psychiatry has Real World Outcomes that are lousy and indefensible. Attempting to defend them is despicable; adds insult to injury. Defending psychiatry while failing to defend, assist or even acknowledge the psychiatric patients who are harmed by the Highest Level Bullshit "treatment' is morally reprehensible. Psychiatric drugs are thrown by the handfuls onto the playgrounds and into school classrooms; sprayed like scatter shot at traumatized veterans; and used to sedate grandpa and grandma into early graves. The Highest Level Bullshit artists seem to be willfully blind, conflicted elitists who castigate ethical professionals who question the rates of disability and fatality caused by psychiatric treatment the Highest Level Bullshit artists attest in Courts of Law is "necessary medical treatment" required to "successfully treat" psychiatric patients--apparently, psychiatric patients are "successfully treated" when they are treatment compliant, not if they are cured or recovered. The patient is successfully treated even when the psychiatric treatment results in a permanent disability or kills the patient. 


It is one thing to defend a hypothesis that is not yet validated while continuing to look for the evidence to validate it; it's quite another to allow one's belief in it, i.e. one's personal conviction of it's inherent truth, be the justification for using coercion and and fraudulent claims to compel patients to believe psychiatric Bullshit and subvert the Courts to adjudicate a person and legally apply a psychiatric diagnosis to force Bullshit down the patient's neck. Doing so, is contrary to the philosophy of medicine in the Hippocratic tradition. It is unethical. It is criminal. It is not therapeutic. 

It is unsafe and ineffective to use teratogenic drugs indiscriminately across diagnostic categories and population groups. It is not in a "patient's best interest" to prescribe drugs regardless of safety and effectiveness, and fail to warn the patient about the serious risks or adverse effects to watch for. The fact that some "off-label" prescriptions are without empirical support, is stunning; obviously, not "evidence-based" or even ethical--how can it be a "standard practice?" Even worse, drugs are commonly prescribed in spite of evidence it is not a safe and effective treatment for the condition or symptom being 'treated.' This is standard clinical practice because psychiatric treatment algorithms are developed by consensus, as a marketing strategy, such as the psychiatric treatment guidelines written and marketed by Expert Knowledge Systems e.g. TMAP. 

Still used in  Washington StateTMAP was considered an evidence-based "standard clinical practice" until it was discredited as part of an illegal marketing strategy financed by Johnson and Johnson to mass market the neuroleptic drug, Risperdal. In effect, what is being defended by Pies and others are unethical standards of care that are harmful to patients, and that lack empirical support and the use of sound medical judgement, in a word, unethical unprofessional . Standards of practice in psychiatry were developed using a quasi-democratic political process; called consensus. Professionals voting to achieve a "consensus of professional opinions" is not a valid scientific process; it is a quasi-democratic political process. Consensus is evidence of agreement, even agreed upon well-educated opinions and observations can only ethically support, not replace.

Consensus alone can not validate a hypothetical etiology for psychiatric symptoms or psychiatric diagnoses.

Human Experimentation has in effect, become a standard clinical practice by consensus.

Standard Clinical Practice: originally instituted as a means to protect patients from harmful medical practices; now some standards primarily serve to protect psychiatrists and other medical professionals from being held legally liable for causing iatrogenic injury or iatrogenic disease to a patient IF the professional uses a recognized "standard of care" or treatment algorithm. In real world practice, Clinical Care Standards are an affirmative defense for medical malpractice for the drug-induced iatrogenic injury, disease and disability  inflicted upon patients with impunity.

How anyone interprets psychiatric Bullshit 
never has been as important as 
a patient's Real World Outcome!

Intent on preserving a sense of integrity for the profession, with outcomes not worthy of defending at all, psychiatry is clearly understood to be robbing people of cognitive and intellectual abilities while causing neurological, autonomic, metabolic, endocrine and hormonal dysfunction; known, common effects--(direct effects caused by a drug's mechanism of action are NOT in truth, "side" effects!)

Given the profound deleterious effects of 'Bullshit-Based' psychiatric treatment, the current incarnation of psychiatry called psychopharmacology, takes lives at an alarming rate and is reclassififying drug-induced deaths, as 'natural deaths." Stripped of basic human rights, people are 'legally' forced to have psychiatric treatment. WHY does this not sound like Medicine?

Claiming that Psychiatry (and Philosophy) at the Highest Level is misunderstood... 

is a common side-effect of believing psychiatric Bullshit!

Bullshit-Based Psychiatry causes iatrogenic injury and disease.

NO Bullshit!


SUMMARY 
Misunderstanding Psychiatry (and philosophy) at the Highest Level Bullshit II:
Any professional who questions psychopharmacology and/or the bio-disease model, and/or lousy real world treatment outcomes, may lack "insight," according to Ronald Pies, a faithful believer and defender of psychiatric bullshit and a Bullshit Artist with acquired immunity to Psychiatric Bullshit.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato

I'm not deceived or enchanted...
I'm a MadMother immune to Psychiatric Bullshit.



Bullshit pics from photobucket

Feb 18, 2012

Misunderstanding Psychiatry (and philosophy) at the Highest Level Bullshit


"to paraphrase a line from the film Cool Hand Luke
“What we got here is a failure to communicate!"
No doc, what we got here is Bullshit.


WARNING:
Believing Bullshit activates Bullshit's placebo effect.
 Bullshit is safe and effective. 
That's NO BULLSHIT!  


I've read quite a few learned scholars who write Bullshit
This one appears to be full of it!



Psychiatry's "protected" academic elite, i.e. the idiots who have lied about the Drug Trial data; the researchers who used biased, unethical methodology in clinical trial research harming real people; ultimately reporting their corrupt data in "peer reviewed" professional journals and at conferences.  In effect, these research psychiatrists lied about the benefit risk profiles of the drugs.  People have died. Millions of children have been told there is something wrong with their brains, and that they need to take teratogenic psychiatric drugs; when there in fact has been no pathology or dysfunction identified.  The children are then drugged using neurotoxins which can actually cause dysfunction, i.e. iatrogenic dysfunction.  Only after psychiatric treatment, do the children have something diagnostically wrong with their brain!?  I am not a doctor, but I could play one on TV. I'm not smart and adjudicated by psychiatry and philosophy, so I'll pretend I'm a real live doctor; but I'm gonna do the philosophy first.  Alrighty then!


Who is right about the science---is not what matters most.  What matters is what is being done to real human beings behind the indiscriminate, prolific prescribing of drugs.  Drugs approved based on utter Bullshit in some cases.  Then, the Highest Level Bullshit artists (such geniuses) don't retract Bullshit from their 'professional' journals.  The 'professional journals' are considered 'Resources' to physicians who then treat their patients with drugs based on this 'peer-reviewed' Bullshit. Holy Cow! Standard Treatment Protocols based on Bullshit are used, and now the Bullshit is what is being vehemently defended along with the Bullshit artists, who are still considered Leaders in the "medical" specialty of Psychiatry?!  WTF kind of willful blindness allows a group of 'professionals' to utterly and completely fail to discipline, censure and strip the licenses from it's members who have participated in blatant criminal behavior?! The academic elite have harmed patients and caused other professionals who relied on their Bullshit research to harm patients, and yet they are still "leaders." 

"Medical Professionals" who rely on this corrupt data, are defending it, and the criminals who have purposely perpetrated fraud; if this is the 'Highest Level' ---why would anyone believe this Bullshit?!!  Only a psychiatrist at the Highest Level would think a big huge steaming load of Bullshit is "Evidence-Based Medicine."


Now there's a philosophy right there, I tell ya what!  I think I've about wrapped it up...
oh wait, psychiatry is medicine, that is supposedly misunderstood...
Well, not by me!  I'm not believing the Bullshit Pies...


Philosophically, it doesn't matter, whose analysis is correct.  The Real World Outcomes matter.   For the patients, it is all that matters.  In the aggregate, Psychiatry at the Highest Level has  Real World 'treatment' Outcomes that are lousy and indefensible.  Attempting to defend them is despicable; doing so adds insult to injury to say the very least.  Defending psychiatry while failing to defend, assist or even acknowledge the psychiatric patients who have been harmed by this Highest Level Bullshit, is morally reprehensible.  Psychiatric drugs are thrown by the handfuls onto the playgrounds and into school classrooms; sprayed like scatter shot at traumatized veterans; and used to sedate grandpa and grandma into early graves.  The Highest Level Bullshit artists seem to be willfully blind, conflicted elitists who castigate other professionals who have the audacity to think critically of the disability and death toll that the Highest Level Bullshit has had on the patients 'successfully treated;' i.e. treatment compliant, or not. 

It is one thing to defend a hypothesis that is not yet validated; and to continue to look for the evidence to validate it. It is quite another to use belief in it's validity, i.e. one's personal conviction of it's inherent truth, as a justification for using coercion and and fraud to compel patient's to believe your Bullshit, or use the Courts to force your Bullshit down patient's necks.  Doing so, is contrary to the philosophy of medicine in the Hippocratic tradition. It is unethical. It is criminal.  It is not therapeutic. It is unsafe and inefficacious to use teratogenic drugs indiscriminately across diagnostic categories and population groups. It is not in a patient's "best interest" to prescribe drugs regardless of the safety and fail to warn about the serious risks. That the prescriptions can be entirely without sufficient empirical support, is stunning; obviously, unethical.  Even worse, drugs are commonly prescribed in spite of evidence that it is not safe or efficacious; and this is done using treatment algorithms in endless combinations, i.e. polypharmacy; and this is called, a standard clinical practice, in spite of not being supported by valid empirical research or patient outcome data.  What exactly is being defended is standards of care that are not based on medical science, medical ethics, or using ethical medical judgement. The standards were developed through a quasi-democratic political process. Professionals voting to achieve a "consensus of professional opinions" is not a scientific process, it is a political endeavor. In this way leaders in psychiatry have made it a "legal" standard clinical practice to conduct Human Experimentation; and call it a "standard of care."  


How anyone interprets Bullshit
 has never been 
as important as 
Real World Outcomes.

Intent on preserving a sense of integrity for the profession, with outcomes not worthy of defending at all, psychiatry is clearly understood to be robbing people of cognitive and intellectual abilities while causing neurological, autonomic, metabolic, endocrine and hormonal dysfunction all common negative effects--(not side effects) of psychiatry's Bullshit 'treatments.'  Given the broad spectrum effects of 'Bullshit-Based Medicine,' psychiatry, in it's present incarnation of 'psycho' pharmacology, takes lives at an alarming rate; and calls drug-induced deaths, 'natural' instead of acknowledging it is iatrogenic homicide. After being striped of their basic human rights, people can be legally forced to take teratogens...WHY does this not sound like Medicine?  Is it because treatment could actually cause the patient iatrogenic illnesses, and ultimately a decades early death?  


Claiming Psychiatry (and Philosophy) is Misunderstood, is Bullshit;
it's a common side-effect of believing your own Bullshit Pies.



Bullshit-Based Medicine causes one hell of a 
iatrogenic injury.
(NO Bullshit!)

SUMMARY
Misunderstanding Psychiatry (and philosophy) at the Highest Level Bullshit: Any professional who questions psychopharmacology and use of the bio-disease model, or the lousy real world treatment outcomes, lacks insight; "Misunderstanding Psychiatry (and Philosophy) at the Highest Level." Apparently, Bullshit Artists become immune to Bullshit.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
~ Plato

Let's just say I am neither deceived, nor enchanted.


I'm a MadMother immune to Bullshit.


Bullshit pics from photobucket

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