Psychiatrists say Trump mentally ill
By Jon Rappoport
---After investigating psychiatry for two decades, I'm
confident that, if we could go back and rewrite history, deleting all
psychiatrists on the planet, so they'd never exist---deleting their
diagnoses and their drugs---this would have resulted in a massive
upsurge in mental health, moving forward---
The Daily Mail: "A group of leading psychiatrists told a
conference that Donald Trump has clear hallmarks of mental illness that
compromise his role as president. Twenty-five researchers made a drastic
break away from ethical standards by meeting at Yale University on
Thursday to discuss evidence questioning the commander-in-chief's mental
health."
Psychiatrist Allen Frances, who has played a central role in
defining mental disorders, disagrees. He wrote in the NY Times: "Most
amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled [Mr. Trump as having]
narcissistic personality disorder. He may be a world-class narcissist,
but this doesn't make him mentally ill."
Dr. Frances makes an interesting point. He distinguishes
between behavior and earning a badge for having a particular mental
disorder.
For example, a person can be sad, but that alone doesn't make
him a candidate for the label, "clinical depression." A person can take
aggressive actions against authority, but that doesn't necessarily mean
he is suffering from Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
Consider the accusation that Trump has Narcissistic
Personality Disorder (NPD). What does that mean? What is the official
definition of NPD? Here is an excerpt from the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the official bible of the
American Psychiatric Association. Go ahead, plow through it, it'll only
take a minute:
"The definition of NPD states that it comprises of a
persistent manner of grandiosity, a continuous desire for admiration,
along with a lack of empathy. It starts by early adulthood and occurs in
a range of situations, as signified by the existence of any 5 of the
next 9 standards (American Psychiatric Association, 2013):
- A grandiose logic of self-importance
- A fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty, or idyllic love
- A
credence that he or she is extraordinary and exceptional and can only
be understood by, or should connect with, other extraordinary or
important people or institutions
- A desire for unwarranted admiration
- A sense of entitlement
- Interpersonally oppressive behavior
- No form of empathy
- Resentment of others or a conviction that others are resentful of him or her
- A display of egotistical and conceited behaviors or attitudes"
"...No actual physical characteristics are seen with NPD, but
patients may have concurrent substance abuse, which may be seen in the
clinical examination."
Got it? Now, think about this: NOWHERE IN THE DEFINITION IS THERE ANY DEFINING DIAGNOSTIC TEST.
No blood test, urine test, saliva test, brain scan, genetic assay. Nothing.
What you've just read is a collection of behaviors. This
collection was assembled by a committee of psychiatrists, who decided
that, taken together, they added up to a mental disorder.
There is no defining diagnostic test for NPD.
We're talking about psychiatrists sitting in a room and
arbitrarily deciding that a cluster of behaviors adds up to an official
mental disorder.
These psychiatrists are playing word games. They're inventing so-called mental disorders.
Underneath this story about Trump and the shrinks, there is a
far more important truth. Psychiatrists are world-class purveyors of
fake news. They always have been. Because you see...
None of the roughly 300 officially certified and labeled mental disorders has a defining diagnostic test. None.
If you have the tenacity, read through the whole psychiatric DSM bible and you will see for yourself.
Or read this brief exchange. In a PBS Frontline episode,
"Does ADHD Exist?" Dr. Russell Barkley, an eminent professor of
psychiatry and neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical
Center, spelled out the fraud clearly.
Here it is.
PBS FRONTLINE INTERVIEWER: Skeptics say that there's no
biological marker---that it [ADHD] is the one condition out there where
there is no blood test, and that no one knows what causes it.
BARKLEY: That's tremendously naïve, and it shows a great deal
of illiteracy about science and about the mental health professions. A
disorder doesn't have to have a blood test to be valid. If that were the
case, all mental disorders would be invalid...There is no lab test for
any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn't make them
invalid.
Oh, indeed, that does make them invalid. Utterly and
completely. All 300 mental disorders. Because there are no defining
tests of any kind to back up the diagnosis.
Psychiatrists can sway and tap dance all they like and they
won't escape the noose around their necks. We are looking at a science
that isn't a science.
That's called fraud. Rank fraud.
Imagine this. You walk into a doctor's office, you talk with
him for a few minutes, and then he says: "You have cancer. You need to
start chemo at once."
After you recover, you say, "You didn't give me a test."
And he says, "Well, we don't need a test. We know what the
symptoms are because we convened a high-level meeting of oncologists
last year, and we listed the answers to the questions I just asked you.
You gave those telltale answers. So we start chemo tomorrow. We may also
need to surgically remove an organ or two before we're done."
That's psychiatry. That's the way it works.
Those boys have quite a con going. And now, from a few hundred miles away, they've diagnosed a sitting president.
Well, why wouldn't they? They've been shucking and jiving all the way to the bank for the entirety of their professional lives.
Do you like Trump? Do you hate him? Do you think he's nuts?
Sane? Whatever you believe, it has nothing to do with the official
pronouncements of psychiatry.
Psychiatry has become an arm of technocracy---an attempt to
organize society according to a list of so-called mental disorders
parading as science.
Psychiatry is fake science that can be used to discredit,
minimize, accuse, deride, treat (with alarmingly toxic drugs), and
eliminate any individual for any reason.
Now that is a good example of insanity. Of the criminal variety.
No comments:
Post a Comment