AD4E Festival - Dr James Davies - The Making of DSM.
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Dr. James Davies speaks at the 'A Disorder For Everyone' online festival, held September 18, 2020. The making of DSM. The madding truth about its construction based on interviews with its creators
Dr. James Davies' work is always so important, so solidly research-based, so clearly and compellingly explained in writing or in speaking, and is part of his great activism to expose the truth about psychiatric disorders!
need more doctors like Dr James Davies
Dr. Davies, thank you so much for your exhaustive research and for sharing it online. Your observations tie in with Dr. Bartlett's and it's quite gratifying to see that the DSM is now being put to question which was long overdue. Below is an excerpt from Bartlett's book.
*_The conviction that one is "mentally ill" can have far-reaching and undesirable consequences. That conviction can itself be disabling-encouraging and sometimes compelling the diagnosed person to conform to the criteria applied to him or her and, as a result, to exhibit in his or her thought, affect, and behavior expectations to which such mental disorder labeling leads.' In other words, the application of conventional psychiatric diagnoses can, when internalized by patients, assume the form of yet another handicapping internal psychological limitation of the kind we have studied in this book. Such internal limitation can be the inner result of psychiatric labeling, which can in such people act not in a helpful, therapeutic capacity but as an internalized, harm-producing, iatrogenic pathology. Beyond this, there is of course the well-known external stigma of mental illness. As we have seen in different contexts, the psychologically normal are "primed" to react negatively to deviations from normality. The psychology of mediocrity contributes to this reaction, as often also does the psychology of stupidity. As a consequence, virtually no efforts are made by the public to question or evaluate psychiatry's rapidly inflating catalogue of mental disorders, which they swallow wholesale. Beyond the public, insurers are not in the business of asking fundamental questions, and so they also passively yield to and process without selective, critical oversight whatever DSM diagnostic codes are duly submitted to them. In this process in which ready credulity plays a central part, "concepts of normality have become the morality" (Reider, 1950, p. 43) advocated by the mental health industry_*
From Steven James Bartlett's book *Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health*
I wish someone at the Mad In America website would do a 3 or 4 part interview with Dr. Bartlett
Thanks, Dr. Davies, for such a clear and concise "shredding" of the DSM! Having this information with the slides has all the more impact. I will be sharing this and referring to this presentation often.
In this world we need good people `, and Dr james Davis is the best of people the best of men...Thank you James!
Very nicely done!!! Excellent that you had the opportunity to interview those folks before they passed.
I've come to your same conclusions, but via a totally different path.
I read somewhere that the DSM-5 has 150-some diagnoses, and elsewhere that it has around 400. I counted about 402 (not including the134 in the last category that the DSM clearly states are not disorders -- "Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention").
Simply awesome! Clear, concise, critical. Thank you.
So clear, so helpful and definitely not arbitrary in its scope, research and clarity. A very useful teaching tool as well - thank you.
That you for doing this research, documenting the facts, and presenting your case in such a clear methodical way.
The DSM has had a profound effect on lives of hundreds of millions of people.
People lose their lives, quality of their lives, their freedom, and even custody of their children based on the DSM.
I hope that many other qualified professionals will join you to spread the truth and in not so distant future there will be attempts to remedy, even if partially, what was done by a handful of people who did not act in responsible, professional, scientific ways.
P.S. Based on the quotes you read, the psychiatrist who was in charge of creating the DSM III (I forgot his name) seems to have "Grandiosity".
It would be Ironic justice to subject him to the scrutiny of the DSM III and assign a diagnosis to him based on the unscientific document which he spear headed.
Great man
of course if you tell a psychiatrist this they will label you as mentally disturbed
Dsm is a joke
DSM is a bad joke. I don't think that I ever recover from the trauma which was caused by psychiatric "treatment".
I have no support and have to deal this mess by myself. Although I'm used to left alone with my problems and finding out solutions, this time I know I won't be able to do it.
This time I'm not only facing problems which need to be solved in my mind.
I've been stigmatized, lost my credibility and my health.
From my point of view it's ludicrous I need my family members to help me to get antibiobiotics when I'm having infection. Is it urethiris or cystitis..?Anyway quite common ailment which I cannot have because of diagnosis of depression.. caused by psychiatric medications but who cares.
(I was miraculously cured when I made cold turkey with quetiapine. Three cold turkeys in a row actually. It's highly addictive subtance.)
In Finland health care system's message seems to be that sad people are crazy and crazy people lie every single word they dare to say out loud.