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INTERVIEW ON THE PRICE OF BUSINESS SHOW, USABR MEDIA PARTNER.
Kevin Price, Editor at Large for USABR and Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business show, recently interviewed Dr. Linda Lagemann, a prominent mental health authority and long time contributor on the nationally syndicated Price of Business program. on today’s show they discussed a shocking study from the University of Liverpool that essentially dismissed the credibility of a psychiatric diagnosis. Lagemann is with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (
www.CCHR.org). They go in deep at looking into this important study.
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According to the University of Liverpool: “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders.
“The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed analysis of five key chapters of the latest edition of the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), on ‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’, ‘depressive disorders’, ‘anxiety disorders’ and ‘trauma-related disorders’.
“Diagnostic manuals such as the DSM were created to provide a common diagnostic language for mental health professionals and attempt to provide a definitive list of mental health problems, including their symptoms.
“The main findings of the research were:
• Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules
• There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses
• Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events
• Diagnoses tell us little about the individual patient and what treatment they need
“The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents ‘a disingenuous categorical system’.”
As a follow up with the interview with Dr. Lagemann, Price will be interviewing Professor Peter Kinderman of the University of Liverpool in a future interview. He was one of the lead researchers in the study. Kinderman noted that “This study provides yet more evidence that the biomedical diagnostic approach in psychiatry is not fit for purpose. Diagnoses frequently and uncritically reported as ‘real illnesses’ are in fact made on the basis of internally inconsistent, confused and contradictory patterns of largely arbitrary criteria. The diagnostic system wrongly assumes that all distress results from disorder, and relies heavily on subjective judgments about what is normal.”
