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KNOW PART OF THE TITLE BUT CAN'T FIND IT?
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American Psychiatric Association Site
Proposed Draft Revisions for the DSM-V
Now Completed
And they are on facebook too!
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A Tool for Political Power
By Patricia Lefave
The DSM, which years ago I renamed the Dark Secrets of Metaphysics, works very well in conjunction with ANY political ideology. That is because it is based on ambiguous abstractions, generally presented in absolute terms but which can be modified with value judgements. This is metaphysics and not medical science. Psychiatry does not give you medical ‘tests’ to identify the illness’ they will tell you that you ‘have.’ despite the constant comparison to ‘diabetes’ this is NOT an illness which is defined by testing you ‘just like diabetes.’ you are ‘diagnosed’ based on what you say, think and/or feel about your life experiences and relationships and how you are handling them as perceived by your psychiatrist.
This means that wherever you are in the world, the diagnostic criteria can be ‘spun’ to fit the political ideology of those running the system which is using the DSM to control you and anyone else it targets. This works because vague, ambiguous abstractions using value judgements as modifiers is a one size fits all kind of power and because there is no evidence needed (or wanted) that can be used to either prove or disprove the ‘diagnosis.’ This power by passes all government controls including court systems, constitutions and charters of rights and freedoms. This should be scaring the hell out of everyone but it does not, mainly because the masses are being convinced this could not happen to THEM as they are set apart from those defined as ‘sick.’
But ARE you? I suggest you read the DSM V and look for yourself in those marvellously ambiguous ‘symptoms’ of virtually everything that defines as as human.
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| Unseen Variables |
02/20/2010 |
| By Patricia Lefave, the well tested.
It never ceases to amaze me that the observers and testers of the psychiatrized do not include themselves, or the awareness of their tests, in their evaluations and observations of the results of those tests, on those they are observing and testing. They seem to have ... More> |
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| Invisible Distress |
02/12/2010 |
| By Patricia lefave
Originally posted July 2007
Under the pseudonym Krystal Klarity
I used to visit someone in a nursing home. This was after I had been labeled myself.
There was a man who was a resident there who had also been labeled. I saw him many times struggling endlessly to be seen and heard as ... More> |
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Message Off the T.V.
Look for the patterns. Something to help make sense of it.
from Survivor
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UNDERstanding...
Do you want psych students to understand what life is really like?
Then STOP encouraging them to think of themselves as objective observers of defective others and START teaching them to find, and to understand their own defective thinking. Teach them by your example. To become comfortable with 'mental patiients' they will first need to feel really uncomfortable with their own minds and their own judgements. When they do, half the illness they are looking to 'cure' has already been identified. Life is binary experience. It does not take place in a vacuum without relation to external reality and other people, just like them. The idea that the world is neatly divided up into the sane and the insane is, itself, an insane idea.
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You See, the Mental Illness System KNOWS What it Causes Even While it is Causing it. They just see it as a 'lesser' of 'Two Evils.'
PSEUDOPATIENTS AND THEIR SETTINGS
(From On Being Sane in Insane Places by David Rosenhan, M.D.)
The eight pseudo patients were a varied group. One was a psychology graduate student in his 20’s. The remaining seven were older and “established.” Among them were three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter, and a housewife. Three pseudo patients were women, five were men. All of them employed pseudonyms, lest their alleged diagnoses embarrass them later.
Restated by Me: When you real name is connected to a psychiatric label, it is going to be 'embarrassing' at the very least. You and I know of course that it is going to be a whole lot MORE than just 'embarrassing. it is going to change your life forever.
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Messages for Our Psychiatrists
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Why we all need to STOP focusing on the ‘identified patient’ (usually “covertly”) and Look at the WHOLE GROUP- PL
Personality as a diagnostic feature
© Heinz Leymann - file 32170e
One quite often hears the theory that a harassed person´s "pre-morbid personality" should be blamed as the social factor that triggers for mobbing situations. This notion is also very widely spread amongst professionals. But until today, empirical research on adult mobbing, which began in 1982, has not been able to relate the cause of a mobbing process to the victim's personality. Not even similar research concerning child mobbing in schools (e. g. Olweus, 1993) has shown any such connection.
... We have seen individuals with both symptoms, mainly individuals who, after several years of trying to protect themselves, are still suffering from lengthy and daily victimization at work....
Cashew Commentary: You know how this sounds to me? Like the aggressor who states, “I would not be doing this to you if you weren’t making me do it.” Gee ...poor sick ‘us’....This is called blaming the victim. FOCUS on the symptoms of the ‘sick’ GROUP with the same gusto that you now use with that ‘clinical gaze’ focused on the targeted victim. This isn't rocket science.
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Inmates Running the Asylum
The ‘diagnosed’ delusional are now using their faulty perceptions to assess and evaluate the perceived delusions of those they have defined as delusional. If the delusional ones they are assessing object to this, the delusional assessors just know, that this is because the ones being assessed are the non compliant delusional type, unlike the better compliant delusional ones who are doing the assessing.
This is how it feels to us to be in the all knowing psychiatrist’s professional care. These are the kind of conversations we have with them which they do no see as a problem. We often look confused until at least the time we become able to see the whole tautology. Until then though (and even after) our ‘confusion’ is ‘interpreted’ by the great doctors as another sign or symptom confirming their diagnosis.
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