The foundation of psychology, its questioning and critical thinking, if it was not always an illusion, has been abandoned in favour of power and profit, leaving only the guise of integrity, a show of arrogance and a financial bottom line. People are rather vague about the nature of psychotherapy training, and therapists rarely encourage their patients to ask in any detail. The most elaborate and lengthy training programs are the classic psychoanalytic ones, but this is not because of the amount of material that has to be covered. I spent eight years in my psychoanalytic training. DSM IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general.
Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document.
When parents hear me say that attention deficit disorder is a myth, they sometimes become very upset. They think I'm saying that their kids aren't jumpy, distractible, forgetful, impulsive, or disorganized. That's not what I'm saying at all. It's quite obvious to me that our nation's children have probably never been so hyperactive. In numbers unmatched in any part of the world, U.S. school children are diagnosed and drugged in a quid pro quo association between education and for-profit psychiatry and psychology.