Thomas Insel

On his blog, even the head of the NIMH, the leading governmental research institution on "mental illness", concedes that the current paradigm of "treatment" hasn't worked, for "schizophrenia" that is. He even uses scare quotes for the word "schizophrenia", the head of the National Institute of Mental Health! If only he did that with the word "medicines".

He nevertheless interlaces his admission with a lot of nonsense of obviously colonic origin. Supposedly, delusions and paranoia are "symptoms". What about the delusion he's been labouring under about the efficacy of psychiatric drugs, and the many delusions that constitute the conceptual foundations upon which this supposedly philanthropic enterprise rests on? I can just hear the chorus of the psychiatric faithful retorting "that only culturally bizarre beliefs that are wrong and persistently held in the face of all evidence to the contrary constitute delusions", which is just verbicide, even "semanticide", but even if it were true, doesn't explain how that qualifies it as a symptom of a real illness, but I digress.

Just lost my whole reply cause the internet disconnected! damn.

Was saying, allot of smart ppl get good jobs, like drs/ psychs, etc and they spend so much energy learning what they are told to learn, and doing what they are told to do, that they just go thru the motions everyday, they r so worn out just doing these things they don't have enuf energy to put any thought into any of the things that they do. And their image is part of this, they want to be seen as the good everyday dr (not radical or whatever, that would be bad for his/her image!) its so easy to just keep going thru those motions, they r hardworking maybe, no time for extra though except to do what they r taught.

Have u seen any trainee psychs? I ve seen how they just copy what the big boss psych does exactly, and the big boss psych is usually more lenient than the trainees, cause they r the boss they cant get in trouble. This was my experience anyway, the trainees were TOTAL ASSHOLES, all they cared about was sucking up to the boss psych. I stil feel hurt by the way on of the trainees talked to me, spitting out "NO, we don't have that information yet...We r working on that" as if I was dirty or something and bothering her, as if I was 'making trouble' just for asking her a question! totally that's how she made me feel. Horrible.

then why you still go visit them?