MORE ON THE CRIMES OF PSYCHIATRY AND ITS PRACTITIONERS
by Justice Lover

Here is Vera :



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FYI

On Monday, Jan. 21, at 9:00 PM, Public Broadcasting stations will be airing
The LOBOTOMIST, a riveting documentary on the American Experience based on
the 2005 biography of Walter Freeman, who performed ice pick lobotomies on
more than 2,900 people, the last lobotomy in 1967.

The Washington Post reports (below) that hour-long "American Experience"
documentary "The Lobotomist" makes clear that Freeman's operation reflected
the neurologist's peculiar combination of zealotry, talent, hubris and, as
one of his trainees noted, craziness. Sometimes Freeman, who relished
putting on a show, used a carpenter's mallet instead of a surgical hammer
during demonstrations of his operation. At other times, he would operate
left-handed rather than right-handed.

The same can be said about the proponents of Electro Shock, and psychiatry's
other brain damaging somatic interventions, including:
Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Vagus Nerve Stimulation (TMS), Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
None of these invasive interventions is supported by scientific evidence of
safety or lasting efficacy.

Psychiatry's increasingly toxic pharmacologic treatments also lack
scientific evidence of safety and efficacy to justify their wide use; yet
they have become industry's blockbuster profit-makers thanks to aggressive marketing and a complicit FDA.

Most disturbing is that each of these brain damaging experimental treatments
became fashionable due to the propaganda spread by its coterie of zealous
proponents whose hubris, positions of authority and financial stakes, led to
their acceptance. FDA officials abdicate the agency's mission by turning a
blind eye and deaf ear to fraudulent promotional claims refuted by the
scientific data buried within FDA's files.

Those who expose their patients to harm-producing interventions violate the
Hippocratic Oath--"First, do no harm."
In the absence of scientifically valid evidence-based medicine; in the
absence of mandatory monitoring and reporting of drug and/or device adverse
effects, to determine safety--it is better to do nothing.


Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
veracare@ahrp.org
212-595-8974

The relevant press article is here:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011401
484.html
THE WASHINGTON POST
'Lobotomist' Serves as a Warning
Documentary Shows Damage Done When Medicine Goes Awry
By Sandra G. Boodman
Tuesday, January 15, 2008; Page HE01

(Emphasis added by Justice Lover)