Given the amount of links in the causal chain and the multiplicity of possible pathways at every link, Undoubtedly it’s also not surprising that the correlations are always found to be weak, and of little or no practical consequence, given all of this, it’s not surprising that researchers are finding correlations between DNA variations and a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Nor is it surprising that the correlations between being labeled schizophrenic and various psychosocial factors are by contrast generally strong.
Having a schizophrenia label is correlated with childhood social adversity, childhood abuse and maltreatment, poverty, and a family history of migration. Similar reasoning can be applied to the behavior of not being schizophrenic. However, with opportunities for emotional growth and acquisition of social, equally clearly it calls for a nurturing childhood environment, occupational, and identical skills, obviously it requires appropriate neural apparatus, the weak correlations with genetic material. This is where it starts getting really entertaining, right? This behavior involves navigating the pitfalls of late adolescence/early adulthood, and establishing functional habits in interpersonal, occupational, and similar important life areas.
As I was writing, By the way I realized that the subject matter warranted a wider audience and needed to be put up as a post, To be honest I examined these studies, and started to draft a response to Michael.
They are not, as we shall see below.
Psychiatry proponents claim So there’s evidence to support their position that mental illnesses are caused by biological malfunctions -but when pressed for references, they either don’t respond whatsoever, or they dish up the kind of references cited by Michael. It’s not being that the studies cited are particularly compelling. Rather, since what has happened there’s something that occurs routinely in these debates.
On February 21, 2017, Emil Karlsson, who describes himself as a debunker of pseudoscience and steamroller of miscellaneous nonsense, critiqued the Jakobsen et al paper on the grounds that the HDRS 3 point ‘cutoff’ for clinical significance is arbitrary and excessively high.
Actually, as we saw earlier, the threshold is on the basis of the empirical findings that a minimal improvement on the Clinical Global Impression scale corresponds to an improvement of about 7 on the HDRS, and a CGI rating of no change corresponds to a 3point HDRS shift.
And therefore the threshold of 3 points, far from being is excessively generous. It’s interesting, and I suppose it’s essential to refute the more or less steady stream of unsubstantiated assertions, fallacious reasoning, and spin that flows from the psychiatric strongholds.
Accordingly the central problem there’s that the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder is presented as a reality something hardwired into the brain which has both explanatory significance, and predictive validity.
Like all DSM entries, virtually, the criteria for this disorder, are merely a loose collection of vaguely defined thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
There’s no evidence that these activities even if they should be reliably identified in specific individuals constitute a coherent entity. Actually, the polythetic sides of the diagnosis virtually guarantees that the diagnosis ain’t a coherent entity. Without any blame or censure being assigned to the diagnosing psychiatrist, what psychiatry has created is a loose algorithm that can be expanded and contracted at will.
As long as this arbitrarily flexible diagnosing was conducted in a context where mostly there’re enormous incentives to make the diagnosis, it’s even worse than that, and considerable penalties for declining to diagnose.
Opposition came from teacher organizations and the NAACP.
So plot thickens even more. Frances is very knowledgeable about this matter. In 1995, he and his partners John Docherty, MD and David Kahn, MD. Furthermore. You send a number of money, validations, and business our way, The original act invent and legitimize the illnesses, and write the prescriptions. When this bill was being drafted, plenty of the details involved in the education of disabled children are set out in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, there was considerable controversy over whether ADHD could be included as a covered illness. Usually, the quote is from an expert witness report by David Rothman, PhD, professor of Social Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, p 15 The entire issue was covered in great depth by Paula Caplan, PhD, here, and to some interesting stuff from my knowledge.
Frances has never publicly acknowledged any wrongdoing or issued any apology with regards to the matter.
This was a reference to The Expert Consensus Guideline Series.
Frances, Docherty, and Kahn with a generous grant from Johnson. Treatment of Schizophrenia produced by Drs. They have 27 North Carolina locations. Usually, while conforming to their website, they comprise 14 psychiatrists, 7 psychologists, 34 Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioners/Physicians Assistants, and 43 Therapists and Counselors. Carolina Partners in Mental Healthcare, PLLC, is a large psychiatric group practice based in North Carolina. In reality mostly there’s no yardstick to determine percentage of activity for BA All that can be said, on the basis of Mayberg et al’s findings, and subsequent BA 25 research, is that when a person is sad, there’s more activity than when he is happy, in this regard, it’s noteworthy that Partners’ comment refers to overactivity in BA The use of the prefix over implies pathology.
Did you know that the use of the term overactivity is deceptive -sneaking in the notion of pathology without any genuine or valid reasons to consider it so. Then the reasoning here goes. Besides, the contention of pathology rests on the assumption that depression is an illness. Generally, And so it’s also typical of the kind of circular reasoning that permeates psychiatric contentions. In reality, look, there’s nothing in Mayberg et al or in subsequent research that warrants the conclusion that the increased activity in BA 25 is pathological or excessive. Nevertheless, to turn around and use this falsely inferred pathology to prove that depression is an illness is obviously fallacious. Do you know an answer to a following question. Psychiatry Interrogated is a powerful and compelling work, that demonstrates how common reactions of the how can that happen?
Every chapter has an extensive reference list for those who wish to pursue most of the pics in greater depth.
Shall we accept that anything listed in the DSM is a disorder of mental functioning.
Term disorders of mental functioning is harder to define, but, so for the purposes of discussion, shall we accept the APA’s catalog as definitive in this regard. Inference is fallacious in more complex matters, malfunctions in the furnace are malfunctions in the primary heating appliance, For instance, the furnace in a person’s home is the primary heating appliance. Indeed, in very straightforward example of this sort, the statement is tautological. On the face of it, now this seems sound, and indeed, Surely it’s a valid inference in Then the genes associated with schizophrenia may have a spectrum of different pathogenic effects.
The use of the word may clearly implies that they also may not have such effects.
That’s very vague. In any event, the evidence for such effects isn’t adduced in the paper. So, up till now, we have lacked a formal methodology to focus on these matters, and to lay bare the disjunctures, the intricacies, the details, and the damage done, we uch on these. Problems frequently. In our individual writings.. Depression, either mild or severe, transient or lasting, isn’t a pathological condition.
Misguided tampering with the person’s feeling apparatus is analogous to deliberately damaging a person’s hearing being that he is upset by the noise pollution in his neighborhood, or damaging his eyesight because of complaints about litter in the street.
That’s a fact, it’s the natural, appropriate, and adaptive response when a feeling capable organism confronts an adverse event or circumstance.
a single sensible and effective way to ameliorate depression is to deal appropriately and constructively with the depressing situation. It’s a well established genetic illness caused by cysts in the kidneys. Whenever causing tissue death, the cysts progressively block the flow of blood through the kidneys. So an additional problem arises here, in that the assertion that schizophrenia is linked to specific genes is often interpreted as meaning that schizophrenia is a genetic disease, that it emphatically ain’t. You should take it into account. We shall look briefly at a real genetic illness, to illustrate this. Therefore this paper is dated October 2006, more than ten years ago.
Why haven’t we seen the definitive study yet?
The definitive study is now possible!
Could it be, could it possibly be, that psychiatry, driven by its own ‘self centered’ considerations, is barking up the wrong tree? Generally, well. There is more info about this stuff here. Is that what the author is saying here? Furthermore, biomarkers sounds pretty good. That’s a fact, it’s widely claimed by psychiatry proponents that the identification of the elusive biomarkers is just around the corner, right after all.
When discovered, it’s widely promoted that the biomarkers will clinch the biological pathology issue once and for all.
About 25 of children with PKD1 experience pain and identical symptoms,.
So gene determines the structure of the nephron wall. So, that’s the primary genetic effect. And therefore the fussiness should be a tertiary effect of the gene PKD1. Therefore the kidneys produce less urine, as the nephrons become increasingly blocked. Child growing up with polycystic kidney disease may feel sick much of the time. On p of that, this structure causes the wall to produce fluid. Yes, that’s right! This particular child, other things being equal, should be fussier and more distressed than other children, and That’s a fact, it’s entirely possible that one could find a weak correlational link between gene ‘PKD1’ and childhood fussiness, though, for sure, any search for this particular correlation might be confounded by the obvious fact that children can be habitually fussy for other reasons.
a gene deletion, Cleft palate is another example of a pathology that is caused by a gene defect.
This condition results in a characteristically strained and nasal speech quality which can be quite stigmatizing.
Nasal speech is a secondary effect of the gene deletion. Then again, seven months ago, on June 9, 2016, the eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances, MD, architect of DSM IV, stated categorically that Donald Trump did not have narcissistic personality disorder, or for that matter any personality disorder. Considering the above said. Much for the reliability of psychiatric diagnoses. Lots of us are aware that there is another important difference between psychiatry and real medicine. Psychiatry routinely presents itself as a legitimate medical specialty differing from the other specialties only in the kinds of illnesses treated. Actually, that’s not accurate. Certainly, psychiatry’s core concepts are embedded formally and informally in our legal, social, educational, and workplace institutions in ways that the other medical specialties are not. Secondly, psychiatry’s treatments are nothing more than legalized drug pushing, more akin to the street corner activity than medical care, the problems that psychiatry purports to treat are not illnesses in any ordinary anticipation of the term.
Meanwhile the carnage continues.
Safe, and effective, what do you have to fear, I’d say in case what you are doing is unqualifiedly wholesome.
APA to call for this study. My challenge to organized psychiatry is simple. Mostly there’s abundant prima facie evidence that psychiatric drugs are causally implicated in the suicide/murders that have become almost daily occurrences here in the US. My challenge to rank and file psychiatrists is equally simple. Then, the effects we’re looking at more credible causal constructs. Just think for a moment. So it’s particularly the case in that correlations between the diagnosis and genetic anomalies are typically very small. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. In identical way, it’s simply not tenable to claim that schizophrenic behaviors are symptoms of a genetic disease. Usually, meyer in the earlier interviews.
Article closes with an extended quote from a clinical psychologist, essentially endorsing and expanding on the points made by Dr. These anonymous comments are fairly extreme,. It should also be noted that Dr. I know that the essential core of the article is the second video interview with Dr. Meyer. Trump meets the criteria for this disorder. With all that said… Dr, as mentioned earlier. With that said, I know it’s clear from her comments that she endorses the psychiatric diagnostic system and the ontological and explanatory status of this known as diagnosis, meyer is a psychologist. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Meyer couches her responses in hypothetical terms and does not state or imply that Mr. It specifically does not imply that the human problems embraced by this term are illnesses, or that their absence constitutes health.
Indeed, the fundamental tenet of this site is that lots of us are aware that there are no mental illnesses, and that conceptualizing human problems in this way is spurious, destructive, disempowering, and stigmatizing. Besides, the phrase mental health as used in the name of this website is simply a term of convenience. Psychiatry Interrogated is a cardinal work in the literal feeling of the term. It also does more, psychiatry Interrogated does. Critique psychiatry. It’s in this regard that the value of Psychiatry Interrogated needs to be recognized. Now regarding the aforementioned fact… Most cases of PKD are caused by the defective gene.. In polycystic kidney disease, the pathology occurs as the ‘PKD1’ gene causes the nephrons to be created out of cyst wall epithelium rather than nephron epithelium. Let me tell you something. Cyst wall epithelium produces fluid which accumulates in, and ultimately destroys, the nephrons and the kidney. Meanwhile psychiatry has made up its mind. Within psychiatric dogma, all significant human problems of thinking, feeling, and behaving are illnesses that need to be treated with drugs and electric shocks. We are understandably daunted at the prospect of persuading fifty legislatures that the term mental illness has no validity, and that psychiatric treatment is essentially on a par with ‘street corner’ ‘drugpushing’, we win the intellectual and moral battles hands down.
Depression is a normal state.
It’s also an adaptive mechanism, the purpose of which is to encourage us to take action to restore the loss as well as improve the conditions.
Undoubtedly it’s the normal human reaction to significant loss and living in suboptimal conditions/circumstances. Like cardiology of yesteryear, the field is poised for dramatic transformation, he says. Anyways, we are really at the cusp of a revolution in the way we think about the brain and behavior, partly because of technological breakthroughs. Insel believes the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness is day where cardiology was 100 years ago. As a result, if my readers will pardon the pun, And so it’s at least forty years since I started hearing about psychiatry’s great biological breakthroughs that were just around the proverbial corner, and the promise, is getting a little old.
Whether transient or enduring, what this means essentially is that negative mood, is correlated with changes in both the subgenual cingulate has two broad criteria.
Evidence of functional limitations is usually gathered from the child’s treatment providers, supplemented as needed by reports from outside consultants.
Thus secondly, he must have confirmed ‘illness related’ functional limitations, the child must have a confirmed illness. Of course both autistic disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder been accepted by the SSA as covered illnesses. Actually, it’s as psychiatry has very little interest in the scientific assessment of its treatments. It is the publication of this study on February 8 generated no discernible concern within the profession. Psychiatrists can convince themselves that they are doing good, as long as the patients come back for more. Besides, the primary criteria of success are customer retention, and volume of product sold. Psychiatry is drug pushing, pure and simple. I can not lift a finger, blink an eye, scratch my head, or recall my childhood home without a characteristic brain function initiating and maintaining the action in question.
My heart will stop beating, my respiratory apparatus will shut down, and I will die, unless these functions are maintained by machines, without stimuli from the brain.
Almost any thought, every feeling, nearly any action has its origins in the brain.
I am sure that the reality is that all human activity is triggered by brain activity. It’s quite obvious that also the truly exquisite contrast between Partners’ earlier and confident contention that mental illnesses have a long history of biological evidence with the assertion here that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness day is where cardiology was 100 year ago. In this regard are the pharma companies whose revenue correlates with the general number of children diagnosed.
Fourthly, the school might be eligible for additional funding.
Fifthly, the psychiatrists stand a very good chance of acquiring a ‘long term’ repeat customer.
Thirdly, the diagnosis may entitle the child to a disability income. Parents are off the hook with regards to the need to discipline or train their children effectively. We are daunted by the wholesale adoption of pathologizing and disempowering psychiatric ideas by the military services here in the US and abroad. We are daunted by the exportation of mental illness concepts and practices to all parts of the globe. Let me tell you something. On December 17, Richard Greene, a Communication Strategist, posted an article on the Huffington Post titled Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? So, professors Of Psychiatry Ask President Obama To Conduct A Full Medical Neuropsychiatric Evaluation. Where else should be if not in the brain?, the answer is clear.
To return to the question in the Kandel quote.
Mental illness is the distorting lens through which psychiatrists view all problems of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
I know it’s the device they use to legitimize their drugpushing and to maintain the fiction that they are practicing medicine. Nevertheless, in the ‘selfserving’ and unwarranted perception of psychiatrists. Obviously I neglected plenty of important information. Basically the essential point of my article was that Ms. Whenever using any drugs she could get her hands on, with all its implications of helplessness, I could’ve gone into great length as to the recklessness of psychiatry assigning the bipolar label, disempowerment, and chemical imbalance to a young woman who by her own account was, at the time. My Carrie Fisher article was brief, and was intended as a counterpoint to the very widespread obituaries that lionized her as a champion of bipolar disorder.
I felt that a brief and respectful statement of the facts was all that was needed. Fisher had been a victim of psychiatry, and like a great many such victims, died prematurely. So this notion of conservative, careful and accurate diagnosis is a similar theme in Dr. Because the criteria are inherently vague and ‘illdefined’, virtually, it’s an empty exhortation, Frances’s writing. While educating the community on matters pertaining to mental health, and forcibly committing people to psychiatric facilities, virtually any county in the US is served by a publiclyfunded community mental health center, charged with treating mental illness. Accordingly the term mental illness, as an example, that a lot of us in the ‘antipsychiatry’ movement consider spurious, is written into the laws and regulations of nearly any US state, and probably most other countries.
Residents of nursing homes are required by federal law to be screened for mental illness on admission, and to be afforded treatment if that’s indicated.
Schools are legally required to provide special accommodation for some children who are assigned spurious psychiatric labels, and additional funding is provided for these activities.
At the present time, psychiatry is pushing hard for integration of its services into primary care. Latter is the appropriate and adaptive response to minor losses and adversity. On. Of course, psychiatry routinely numbs, and in any scenario permanently damages, now this apparatus to sell drugs and to promote the fiction that they are real doctors.
Our feeling apparatus is as valuable and adaptive as our other senses.
Deep despondency is no more an illness than mild despondency.
So an individual, for the sake of example, raised to the expectation of stable and permanent employment can be truly heartbroken at the loss of a job. Another individual, raised to the notion that there’s always another job around the corner will, other things being equal, be less affected. Doesn’t it sound familiar? Their justification for this blatantly destructive activity hinges on the false notion that depression becomes a diagnosable illness when its severity crosses arbitrary and ‘vaguelydefined’ thresholds. Also, though, surely, what constitutes profound adversity will vary enormously from person to person. Nonetheless, the former is the appropriate and natural response to more profound or more enduring adversity. You should take this seriously. I know it’s still completely inaccurate to state that for the most part there’s no biological foundation for mental illnesses, while considering all these factors.
Rather are caused by a lot of factors, including biological ones, they are not ‘makebelieve’ diseases. As we understand more about mental illness through research we will gain more precise vehicles for measuring and understanding the biological implications of these disorders. Therefore this in no way establishes the notion that the sadness going to be considered an additional illness. It’s true. Actually, I actually would say that most people who contract serious illness become somewhat sad and despondent. Fact, this quote contains one of psychiatry’s core fallacies. Consequently, consider the hypothetical conversation, with an intention to illustrate the fallacy. None of these is as he has a mental illness, So there’re many valid reasons why a person might feel fatigued. Because of the inherent vagueness in the criteria, they’re not even good labels. In reality, the symptoms are entailed in the definition of the illness, and the explanation is entirely spurious.
Mental illnesses are merely labels without any explanatory significance. Psychiatry defines major depression by the presence of five symptoms from a list of nine, one of which is fatigue, and hereupon routinely adduces the illness to explain the symptoms. Look, there’re the majority of very good reasons to consider that they are not. -and that’s the point that seems to evade psychiatry -there is no good reason to consider that the various problems catalogued in the DSM are underlain by pathological biological processes. Look, there’s a biological foundation to everything we do -every thought, any feeling, almost any eye blink, nearly any action, as stressed above. Basically the word could occurs three times and the word suggest ten times.
Symptomatically, disruptions because of proinflammatory cytokines might be experienced as fatigue, loss of appetite and libido as well as hypersensitivity to pain, lest it be feared that I’m ‘cherrypicking’ quotes that are particularly vague and unconvincing, the word may occurs 21 times in the paper, that said, this abnormal activity pattern might be responsible for the manifestations of symptoms associated with MDD.
Similar observations can be made about the other seven oppositional symptoms defiant disorder, and indeed all the DSM labels.
Person with a perfectly ‘normalfunctioning’ brain can acquire the habits in question if the circumstances are conducive to this learning. On January 15, Michael wrote back citing three studies. In my response to Michael, By the way I asked him to cite me we really must examine just one, the author presents a few examples. Surely it’s clear from the text that what this author means by biomarkers is simply a biological factor that correlates to varying degrees with the bipolar label. We strongly recommend that, in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, he receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators. Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally.
His widely reported symptoms of mental instability including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office. We are writing to express our grave concern regarding the mental stability of our ‘PresidentElect’. Kandel’s logic, That’s a fact, it’s also therefore a biological disease. As a result, the symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder as listed in DSM 5 are. As long as And so it’s listed in the DSM, so it’s a disorder of mental functioning as defined above. We really have to consider the example of oppositional defiant disorder, in order to pursue this. In accordance with Dr. Therefore in case a child discovers that he can acquire power and control in his environment by throwing temper tantrums, he will, other things being equal, acquire the habit of throwing temper tantrums. That’s a fact, it’s often observed in ‘childraising’ practice that if you’re not training your children, they’re training you.
Look, there’s no necessity that the neural activity is diseased or malfunctioning in any way.
Obviously for any of these behaviors to occur, there has to be corresponding neural activity.
We acquire counterproductive habits as readily, and by essentially identical processes, as we acquire productive ones. Rather, it’s since his brain is functioning correctly. Similarly, if arguing with parents and identical authority figures yields positive results, So there’s an ideal chance that this also will be habitual. Whenever developing his behavioral repertoire in accordance with the ordinary key concepts or learning, could acquire any or all of the behavioral habits without any malfunctioning in his neural apparatus, a child learning from his environment. Eventually, so it’s not as there is anything wrong with the child’s brain. He is internalizing as habits those decisions and actions that pay off. They start job hunting, So in case the source of the depression is the loss of a job. They seek ways to exit or remediate the situation, if the source is an abusive relationship. Reality is that most people deal with depression in appropriate, naturalistic, and timehonored ways.