“Psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric wings of general hospitals, and addiction treatment centers are still largely trolling for customers who have insurance.”– Joe Sharkey
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This fact was affirmed in March 1996 by Rex Cowdry, the then director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Cowdry was called before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. House of Representatives to explain the vast sums wasted on absurd projects by NIMH. These, he said, were necessary because: “We don’t know the causes [of mental illness]. We don’t have the methods of ’curing’ these illnesses yet.” Psychiatrists have also failed to prove the existence of these maladies, but this detail has not prevented the list of “illnesses” from growing each year. In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association published its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM). It listed 112 mental disorders, up from seven in 1880. In 1968, the manual was revised and called the DSM-II. It listed 163 mental disorders, including a whole new category of “Behavior Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence.” These new ailments each of which could be considered a “handicap” appeared shortly after psychiatry procured federal funding for treating handicapped children. Commentary in the DSM-II revealed that the listed “disorders” had not been established by scientific evidence but by a committee which voted on whether they existed. Later versions of the DSM used this same “scientific” criterion “electing” new disorders. When the DSM-IV was published in 1994, the number of mental disorders listed jumped to 374. While this manual provides an extensive list of mental disorders, it admits that no definition specifies precise boundaries for the concept of a “mental disorder.”
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