femur wrote:The institution of psychiatry is like the reincarnation of the Catholic Church. I think every era in history has its corrupted systems. I wish I could answer this question. Possibly when there is a shift from a patriarchal modus operandi. There are a lot of connected issues that feed the monster so you can't really discuss just one component of "why psychiatry is so corrupted" in isolation from its context.
I do have to agree with you, not 100% but about 95%. There are many things that feed disinformation in psychiatry, but keep in mind every snake has a head. Everything has a controller.
Big Pharmaceutical companies are it. They have the money (billions) and thus the power to influence nearly every aspect of a psychiatrists training and the institution they work in. By doing so they can shift the system that is geared toward making new patients for there pills and keeping existing ones from getting better, thus nobody will get off pills. They have managed to bat around "mental illness is a life long disease, but it can be managed with medication" BS to both.
The studies they fund and control look legit but they are incredibly biased. Medical students with an expansive perception of relity are not welcome in that they may see the smeared over contradictions in the studies. They re-wrote the medical books claiming schizophrenia is neuro-degenrative, showing brain scans to prove it. What those brain scans dont factor in is that nearly all of those are from patients who for years have taken high amounts anti-psycotics.