Psychiatrists Hyper-Ego Boosting DeLorean Ride

{EAV_BLOG_VER:d963f877b2d8efe4} The number of psychiatrists that have moved away from true psychotherapy and are now not just practicing but specializing in pure medication management is astounding and the number of doctors following them is stupefying. All I can say is, it must be a lucrative business with endless customers.

Don’t you think it’s time we stopped placing Doctors and Psychiatrists on a pedestal? After all they’re real people, people that – just like you and I – have human weaknesses and faults. I know it’s difficult to change decades of training. I look back over that past sixty odd years and see how well Pavlov’s theory worked on millions of unsuspecting people.

It’s become evident that when [some] Doctors and Psychiatrists live and breath the rarefied air of fame and fortune, when they live in an academic bubble and are elevated in the minds of not only their peers but by virtue of the media into the mind of every man, woman, and child and are thereby held in high esteem…the mind changes, their ego inflates and grandiose thoughts and ambitions can over ride common sense.

Add to this a hyper-ego boosting DeLorean ride when these lauded Doctors and Psychiatrists are courted by the Pharmaceutical Industry and showered with gifts such as first class travel and accommodation, front row tickets to major sporting events and expert witness or [conference] speaker fees lavished on them. Well, it stands to reason that most will fall from grace and use their influence in all the wrong ways while all the time believing that they…and only they…have all of the answers to humanities ills in a little pill.

Perhaps now you can see why there are large numbers of psychiatrists that have moved away from true psychotherapy, why most will only give a patient a few minute of their precious time. Perhaps you can see now why so many are specializing in pure medication management and are now doubling their efforts with Government and the media to capture the pediatric [and adolescent] ‘at risk’ mental health market.

All I can say is that they must see a very lucrative business with endless customers.

Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie have found a new market regardless of Patrick’s own meager attempts at research, and the financial backing of multinational pharmaceutical companies. “It is also evident that our government, even in the face of opposition by the world-wide scientific community, will attempt to shove this unholy pseudo-science down the throats of children and young adults via their families through the use of financial [tax] blackmail and the soon to be released e-Health records, while continuing to accept McGorry’s unverified statements that it is imperative to pre-drug our next generation“.

Conclusion

During my research the same names kept coming up over and over again on boards and committees of Government Health Organizations, NGOs and Pharmaceutical Companies, as expert advisers and or as funding recipients.

The documentation indicates a long and disturbing trend of manipulation, lies and deceit conducted by a handful of individuals to insure that a vast majority of the population is diagnosed with some form of mental disorder and medicated.

In addition, it would appear that these individuals have incorporated a much larger body of peers and government officials that have blindly and in some cases willingly supported this insidious brand of Voodoo Science and Snake Oil.

I call it a massive conflict of interest and one that our Government should address right now!