Medical Professionals respond to psycho-surgery

The abusive and experimental practice of psycho-surgery (including drilling holes in a patient's brain), has not ceased.  This inhumane and torturous treatment is not based on any scientific or medical evidence and does not cure any mental health disorders or symptoms.  When recommended, it is done so, blindly, and when performed by surgeons, does not handle any of the underlying problems, leaving the individual less able to cope with his or her life.

 

Psychosurgery as Psychiatric “Disease” Propaganda

By Fred A. Baughman, Jr., MD
Author: The ADHD Fraud—How Psychiatry Make “Patients” of Normal Children
www.Trafford.com

As suggested in Regarding “Brain Power-- Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk (BENEDICT CAREY, New York Times, November 27, 2009), being unable to brush ones teeth or the act of showering for seven hours at a time are not diseases.  Even psychiatrists, having gone to medical school, know that a disease is an abnormality--gross (a lump), microscopic (cancer cells), or chemical (elevated blood sugar in diabetes, phenylalanine in PKU).  But in the wonderland of psychiatric diagnosis, they would have us believe that each of their labels is a physical abnormality/disease /disorder, when, instead, each is a lie—devoid of science and truth.  

Carey writes of Ross, 21, who swears “It (psychosurgery) saved my life.”  “I really believe that.”  Whether or not a patient believes he has a disease, and whether or not they believe a treatment’ has helped is subjective, proving nothing. 

Carey continues: “ the first real application of advanced brain science …is a precise, sophisticated version of an old and controversial approach: psychosurgery… ”  Because there are no diseases in psychiatry, psychosurgery is surgery on brains with no abnormalities—normal brains--done to perpetuate the ‘disease’ lie—psychosurgery as psychiatric propaganda!.  In 1948 psychiatry and neurology were declared separate specialties--neurology to deal with the diagnosis and treatment of physical/organic diseases of the nervous system, psychiatry with all problems emotional and behavioral, none of them diseases. 

Nor does an article such as this (Carey), with such powerful disease imagery, appearing on the front page of the New York Time, confirm or validate things psychiatric/psychological as brain or body abnormalities/disorders/diseases. 

On Nov 10, 2008, Supriya Sharma, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Director General of Health Canada wrote   “For mental/psychiatric disorders in general, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and ADHD, there are no confirmatory gross, microscopic or chemical abnormalities that have been validated for objective physical diagnosis.  On March 12, 2009  Donald Dobbs of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food & Drug Administration, wrote: “I consulted with the FDA new drug review division responsible for approving psychiatric drug products and they concurred with the response you enclosed from Health Canada.” 

In psychiatry today, there is no regard for the brain, our #1 organ of learning, adaptation, and mental healing, or for the truth that more persons recover from psychiatric ills to return to their homes and jobs absent drugs, shock, and psychosurgery than with any combination of such ongoing “treatments.” . 

FRED A. BAUGHMAN, JR. M.D.*
NEUROLOGY AND CHILD NEUROLOGY (Board Certified)
FELLOW, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY

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