The Basic Fraud
Unfortunately, billions spent on psychiatry are worse than wasted. One look at our schools or any of the other areas psychiatry promised to improve and not only failed to improve, but actually made worse serves as proof. Psychiatry’s promise that its programs would prevent mental “illness” is of interest. At the turn of the century, less than one in 1,000 people were considered mentally ill. After psychiatry secured massive funding increases in the 1960s for “preventive mental health” programs, that number jumped to one in ten. Today, psychiatrists claim that half of the population are candidates for their couches, drugs or electric shock tables. Herein lies the basic fraud the concept of mental illness itself. According to author and professor of psychiatry emeritus, Thomas Szasz, M.D., mental illness itself is a myth. “A disease is a change in tissues rather than behavior,” he said. “Behavior is in the realm of morals, religion and law.” Psychiatry, therefore, is an instrument of social control, masquerading as medical science. “Mental illness” is an extension of German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt’s proposition that man has no soul. Though Wundt had no proof of his theory, what he advanced in the 19th century has been a linchpin of the psychiatric industry ever since. And today, a century and billions of research dollars later, psychiatry is still trying to prove this position.
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