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Jackpine Radical

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13. Yes. And most--MOST--of the psychiatrists on the DSM committee have ties
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:31 AM
Mar 2012

to Big Pharma. Hell yes, it's a pill-pushing move. And a political move.

The committee on Sexual Disorders has a prosecutor sitting on the board. He has no medical qualifications, but is there to help make sure the Sexual Disorders section is written in such a way as to be maximally useful in the post-sentence commitment of sex offenders, making it easier to establish that they have "mental disorders" that qualify them for commitment after the get out of prison. Medical "science" is being bent to fit prosecutorial needs.

I have known about this for a long time, but the true significance of it didn't hit me until I just wrote that. Holy shit.

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder jberryhill Mar 2012 #1
Occupying Defiant Disorder? Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #2
Dealing with Oppositional Defiant Disorder is not pretty meow2u3 Mar 2012 #7
Reminds me of a bloated bellicose radio host who arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #8
Given the context of this thread do we really need to go around medicalizing political foes? (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #16
I would think that lack of an appropriate grief reaction would be more of a mental illness. nt Still Blue in PDX Mar 2012 #3
'grief as a mental disorder'?!? bart95 Mar 2012 #4
Exactly. Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #5
psychiatry has a notorious and dishonorable record in it's classifications bart95 Mar 2012 #6
Isn't that what the Commies did in the old Soviet Union? meow2u3 Mar 2012 #9
This press release is obviously over-simplifying the issue maximusveritas Mar 2012 #11
The point remains that the proposed expansion of various mental disorder classifications is enormous Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #12
this reminds me of my psychology class in the eighties newspeak Mar 2012 #14
It's getting much worse. Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #15
Enshrining new classifications is the first step to marketing new pills. Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #10
Yes. And most--MOST--of the psychiatrists on the DSM committee have ties Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #13
Having spent 30 years being put through the mental-illness wringer: LadyHawkAZ Mar 2012 #17
Medications have their uses. This thread isn't about trashing meds, but Jackpine Radical Mar 2012 #18
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