Psychiatry: Are You Out of Your Mind?
Part One

Call Me Crazy 

Has been reproduced here with the full Knowledge and permission of Paula J. Caplan, PhD., Now at Harvard

Deepest Sadness

The ultimate sadness comes from being told by those in authority that your sadness has nothing whatsoever to do with your life, your experiences, your relationships or your genuine feelings about it all and that it is all just a problem of bad brain chemistry. The sadness that comes from being forced into a psycho-spiritual position like that one trumps them all.

The Wall

Putting up a dysfunctional group wall ...or a ''blue'' wall, or a ''white''' wall, ensures the protection, support and enablement of whatever abuser, ass-hole, or monster is inside ''those four walls'' with you. Evil grows in the dark- like fungus. Often the real 'threat' is coming from inside and not from outside.

This ''closing of ranks'' to protect a group, based on being a part of the group, rather than on discernment, principles, ethics or evidence has to go, as this is the nature of dysfunctional relating and part of what keeps it going. We cannot ''fix'' what we are not ''allowed'' to see or hear.

What is Scary about this Talk by Allen Frances, Leading Architect of the DSM-IV  is two fold-

What he is "confessing," which is done by psychiatry, is true and ALSO he STILL does NOT really  see what he should  because he is basically still a "believer". I have to put this here now  though and I will soon write a piece to go with it, pointing out the things NOT seen which so many of  us want seen.