The Problems Created by the APA

  Mark R. Rowe

8/17/14

     What is wrong with the American Psychiatric Association?  Why do the people that sit on the board of directors and attempt to make psychiatry larger than it it?  Psychiatry is such a large entity that it is equivalent to the size of some smaller religions of the world.

      Do we need to drug our children on a wide scale basis, as this is promoted in American media in the form of television, radio, and internet advertisements attempting to sell drugs.

      Recently I saw a public awareness advertisement on the side of a city bus that read:  "1 in 4 people suffer from a mental illness."  Is the APA really that dumb to assume that if they were to post "awareness" statements like this, people would believe that 25 per cent of all people have some type of mental illness?  I am sorry but people smart and not stupid.  See, the problem here, is that, psychiatrists during the 1940's finally had a chemical substance that could create a profound psychological effect on the human mind.  This chemical substance is a drug known to many by its acronym, LSD or D-Lysergic Acid.  LSD was discovered by Alexander Hofmann, a scientist working in Switzerland in 1943.

     Before the year 1943, psychiatrists were physicians that were not respected in the general field of medicine.  Psychiatry was merely a trial and error pseudo scientific discipline of medicine during the years before 1943.

      Psychiatrists could now synthesize real symptoms of schizophrenia and of other psychotic mental disorders with the prescription and administering of LSD to psychiatric patients.  These mimicked schizophrenic symptoms were believed to reduce the sum total of the quantity of hallucinations caused by Schizophrenia, and that LSD could regulate or attempt to regulate when hallucinations triggered by schizophrenia, (not by LSD) would occur for the psychiatric patient, thus giving psychiatrists and psychotherapists a ballpark time frame to use therapeutic measures to treat the patient.

     When psychiatrists first began administering LSD to psychiatric patients, psychiatrists had a low success rate for the reduction of psychotic symptoms, but as new drug research progressed and with government run behavior modification programs such as, MK-Ultra and the Phoenix Program, psychiatry began to establish itself as a more credible discipline of medicine.