By Kelly Patricia O’Meara May 15, 2014 With nearly 79 million Americans currently taking at least one mind-altering psychiatric drug, it boggles the mind that…
Connecticut Mirror – May 5, 2014 By Sheila Matthews Gallo In response to the op-ed of Saturday, May 3rd, titled “Biological change can be verified…
It’s already old news that the National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, the mother ship of mental health research in the world, has officially diagnosed psychiatry’s billing bible – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 – as suffering from extreme lack of science, proclaiming it dead on arrival. What isn’t known are the implications of NIMH’s announcement.
What is mental illness? Schizophrenia? Autism? Bipolar disorder? Depression? Since the 1950s, the profession of psychiatry has attempted to provide definitive answers to these questions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The world’s biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry’s “bible”…