Nat. Institute of Mental Health Beholden to Drug Company Interests-Penalizes Non Drug Therapies

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The Geovernment Healtn Efforts are so heavily tied to the interests of

Pharmaceutical interests that if anyone strays from the orthodox promotion

of Drugs for Everything or a " (high price)pill for every ill " they are

penalized professionally and academically ostracized.

in the unlikely event you havent seen this reference...

> From: " " <ChrisL@...>

> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:43:31 -0400

>

> Dear OBRL,

>

> Apropos the recent mailing on psychiatry, there is a website I'd like to

> recommend to your readers who are concerned by the social and

institutional

> confluence of psychiatry with political and corporate power. This would be

> the website of the psychiatrist Dr. Loren Mosher.

> (http://www.moshersoteria.com/)

>

> The reader will find there a link to " I Want No Part of It Anymore " , an

> article Dr. Mosher wrote for Psychology Today. In it he describes the

> results of a controlled study he did of the " psychosocial " treatment of

> schizophrenia without the use of drugs in the late 70's, while he was

chief

> of the National Institute of Mental Health's Center for Studies of

> Schizophrenia. (!!!!) The positive results of Dr. Moshers work exceeded

his

> expectations and were documented and statistically analysed according to

> the highest professional standards.

>

> And what was the institutional response to Dr. Moshers work?. The

innovator

> was INVESTIGATED, and the project SHUTDOWN in a classic Emotional Plague

> reaction. Dr. Mosher writes,

>

> " The results of the study were published in scores of psychiatric

> journals, nursing journals and books, but the project lost its funding and

> the facility was closed. Amid the storm of controversy that followed,

> control of the research project was taken out of my hands. I also faced an

> investigation into my behavior as chief of the National Institute of

Mental

> Health's Center for Studies of Schizophrenia and was excluded from

> prestigious academic events. By 1980, I was removed from my post

> altogether. All of this occurred because of my strong stand

> against the overuse of medication and disregard for drug-free,

> psychological interventions to treat psychological disorders. "

>

>

> In the September of 1999, OBRL posted a message that included Dr. Moshers

> open letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association in

> which he scathingly accuses the APA of being virutally taken over by the

> psychopharmaceutical industry. The link to this letter is also displayed

> prominently at www.moshersoteria.com

>

> But the reader may also wish to refer back to that mailing because it

> contains relevant quotes from Reich's Schizophrenic Split, with which Dr.

> Moshers contactful approach to psychiatric practice compares very

favorably.

>

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> For Life Always,

>

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