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PsychSearch The Shrinks are Shrinking Colin Taufer “Psychiatry is in decline and is becoming obsolete.” This statement does not come from an anti-psychiatry group or a former patient with an axe to grind or a dubious website. This quote comes from an article published by The British Journal of Medical Practitioners, a professional, peer-reviewed online medical journal. The title of the article says it all Psychiatry in Decline. How does the author, a noted English psychiatrist, make his point? Plentifully, honestly and accurately: ● Psychotropic drugs are perceived as a form of control by psychiatrists towards their patients. ● Psychiatrists are denigrated for being in the grip of Big Pharma and perceived as drug pushers. ● Shock therapy is considered barbaric. ● Psychiatry is a victim of its own psychobabble and increasingly mind-numbing research. ● Outcome studies are quoted as favorable, when the very principle of their foundations is very shaky. ● Abuse of psychiatric practice does occur. (As readers of PsychSearch are well aware.) ● Political regimes throughout the world have used and still use powerful psych drugs to subdue and control individuals who challenge the authority of the State. ● Psychiatry has been used by some totalitarian regimes to enforce political control: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and apartheid in South Africa. Not a favorable outlook. But not only is psychiatry becoming obsolete, the number of psychiatrists is also shrinking. According to one leading journal of healthcare policy, the population of US practicing psychiatrists declined between 2003 – 2013. Interestingly, during the same period the number of primary care physicians grew. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report discussed the trend of the declining number of US medical students choosing psychiatry as a specialty. This downturn is on top of a psychiatric shortage, the same article claims. In July, when asked about the shortage of psychiatrists, the president of the World Psychiatric Association, Dinesh Bhugra, lamented the dour future of psychiatry. He told PsychSearch that a dwindling number of students were interested in pursuing psychiatry and they needed to improve recruitment and training of new students. Psychiatry is a dying profession. Its theories are outmoded and inaccurate, its practices inhumane and ineffective, its numbers declining. The shrinks are shrinking. psychsearch.net/colin.taufer…

PsychSearch TelePsychiatry: Lives Ruined at a Distance Colin Taufer There was a time when psychiatric diagnosis required live face to face consultation before patients’ lives were ruined through psychiatry. Now, through modern technology, lives are also ruined at a distance with telepsychiatry: psych evaluation and drug prescription through teleconferencing. That telepsychiatry exists at all as a form of psychiatric “therapy” only highlights the broken and destructive nature of the psychiatric diagnostic process. Like all psychiatric examination, telepsychiatry diagnosis requires no blood tests, x-rays, brain scans or any other biological testing for that matter. Diagnosis is purely subjective and unscientific, full of guesswork and conjecture. There is no need for lab work of any kind. This lack of scientific verification in the process guarantees incorrect evaluations. There are numerous physiological reasons a patient may be experiencing lethargy: brain injury, poor nutrition, dehydration, stomach virus, hypothyroidism, etc. But a psychiatrist, with their unscientific analysis, does not search for or find a cause, instead they only see symptoms (inactivity, apathy, disinterest) and conclude the patient is suffering from depression and needs a lifetime supply of dangerous and expensive (and very profitable) antidepressants. On one end of the line sits the patient staring into his computer’s camera; anxious, concerned, uncertain. On the other end is the psychiatrist, ready to label the patient and issue a prescription. The patient talks about life and problems of living. The psych listens for symptoms (not root physical causes), does some mental guesswork, stamps the patient with a mental illness (insurance requires something is defined an illness before they’ll pay for it), issues a prescription and clicks goodbye. Psychiatry has taken an already inhuman practice, full of unscientific conclusions and destructive “cures”, and made it even more subjective and more impersonal. This is telepsychiatry. psychsearch.net/colin-taufer…

PsychSearch Women, Beware of Psychiatrists! Colin Taufer Over the last many months I have written a number of columns for PsychSearch. I’ve covered a variety of topics from brain damaging electroshock “therapy” to the horrifying reality of one million American children under the age of 5 on psychiatric drugs. After every article I receive emails from readers, most from America but others from as far as England and Australia. Interestingly, amazingly in fact, I can neatly categorize the writers of these emails into two groups. One group consists of those sending words of support for my message of bringing psychiatry to justice. The second group consists of those who have been directly victimized by psychiatrists and have horror stories to tell. Alarmingly, the authors of this latter group of emails have all been female, everyone of them. I have yet to receive any emails from men suffering at the hands of psychiatry. From their own words, I’ve learned of forced druggings, of having their clothes stripped from their bodies and their arms and legs forcibly restrained by male attendants, of confusion and blurred thinking from electroshocks and of maimed limbs. The World Health Organization reports that doctors are more likely to diagnose depression in women compared with men, even when they present identical symptoms and female gender is a significant predictor of being prescribed mood altering psychotropic drugs. Before writing this article I searched through the pages of PsychSearch itself and saw this same pattern: women preyed on by psychs. Criminal psychiatrists can be broken into two groups. The first group commits fraud and steals money. The second group is comprised of male psychiatrists who sexually abuse women and children. From a personal perspective, I offer another example to make my point. As a teenager I had a friend who was studying to get into the field of medicine. In addition to his academic work, during college he gained experience doing entry-level jobs in various medical facilities. He enjoyed his time doing these apprenticeships. He told me of the things he learned, his positive experiences and he was a good student of the science. One of the worst experiences he had on any apprenticeship happened at a mental health care facility and forever changed his opinion of the mental health profession and those who ran them. The problem? A senior coworker had repeatedly sexually abused a female patient under the hospital’s care. To this day I am still amazed that of all the experiences he shared with me about his medical training, the only one that was negative involved his time working with (criminal) psychologists and psychiatrists. Last week in Ontario Canada psychiatrist Robert Crozier had his license revoked for sexual assaults on female patients. The disciplinary committee which stripped him of his license had these words for Crozier: “…you have shamed and disgraced not only yourself but the profession as a whole and your conduct cannot and will not be tolerated…Crozier, you will now leave this chambers a disgraced physician.” But this is not about one psychiatrist, this is a systematic nightmare throughout the psychiatric profession. The time has come for psychiatry to leave this world a disgraced practice. Let us make it so. psychsearch.net/colin.taufer…

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PsychSearch The Lie That Kills and Makes Psychiatry Billions: Chemical Imbalance in the Brain Colin Taufer In late 2015, Mike Arens’ family was faced with the gloomy and joyless task of piecing together how their fifty-four year old son, brother, and friend was found dead in his Minnesota home. It didn’t take them long to find out how he died and who killed him. Inside Arens’ house they found hundreds of empty pill bottles, all of them prescribed by the same person, psychiatrist Faruk Abuzzahab . Abuzzahab prescribed at least eight different psychiatric drugs to Arens while at the same time receiving tens of thousands of dollars in payments from big pharma for recruiting patients for their drugs . It’s a story of corruption, lies, and killing that repeats itself every day. A drug pusher psychiatrist acting as a dealer for big pharma hooks another patient on a deadly cocktail of multiple psychotropics to “modify one’s brain chemistry” . The psychiatrist gets a kickback from big pharma and big pharma has another addict in its grip. Their profits roll in while the patient dies a little each day. This is a dirty money operation that makes obscene amounts of earnings for psychiatrists and big pharma alike. A few years ago the antipsychotic drug Abilify was the best-selling drug in the U.S. with sales of $7.5 billion in one year . A big reason for this record windfall was Abilify’s price: around $800 for a bottle of 30 tablets. Paying out $10.6 million directly to doctors to push Abilify and $535 million to the U.S. Justice Department for its deceitful marketing is small change for the manufacturers of Abilify , Bristol-Myers Squibb . The biggest lie is the one which underpins the core myth of psychiatry, the lie of the chemically imbalanced brain . No such thing exists. As much as psychiatry wishes it to be true, it is not. Neither psychiatry or big pharma, despite the decades and billions they’ve spent, have proven this myth correct . Today psychiatrist Faruk Abuzzahab is a rich man. Today Mike Arens is dead. psychsearch.net/colin-taufer…

PsychSearch Psychiatry’s War Against the United States Military Colin Taufer Today tens of thousands of American soldiers are stationed in the Middle East, taking the fight to our enemies so our enemies don’t bring terror to the United States. These brave fighting men and women have put themselves in harm’s way at the front lines of combat. But the greater threat to their survival is not the crazed terrorist or plotting insurgent in front of them but the sinister psychiatrist behind them. Between 2005 and 2011, according to the Department of Defense, military psychiatrists increased the number of psychoactive drug prescriptions to our armed forces 682 percent. At the same time prescriptions written for antipsychotics to active-duty troops rose a staggering 1,083 percent. This is an onslaught no army could withstand. Our servicemen and women have no defense for this bombardment of dangerous drugs and their deadly side-effects: increased suicidal thoughts, mania, and aggression. And as prescriptions rise, so do their revenues. In 2016 alone, North American pharmaceuticals took in more than half a trillion (that’s trillion with a “t”) dollars in earnings. Blood money. Psychiatrists know the havoc they are wreaking. Their own studies confirm the link between antidepressants and increased suicide. Here is one 2009 study that took place in a Veterans Administration clinical setting and found suicide rates were twice the base rate for soldiers on antidepressants. Before that, in 2004, the FDA concluded that the newer antidepressants double the rate of suicidal thoughts in behaviors of children, youth and young adults up to the age 24. This is how psychiatric-induced suicide — not combat — has become the leading killer of U.S. troops deployed to the Middle East, according to the Pentagon. This is the treason of psychiatry. psychsearch.net/colin-taufer…

PsychSearch Psychiatrists’ Obsession with Sex By Colin Taufer The “World’s Sexiest Psychiatrist” is not a punchline to a crude joke or the caption on a humorous cartoon. No. The World’s Sexiest Psychiatrist is the tragically accurate and infamous nickname of New Jersey psychiatrist Theodore F. Jasper, who, recently had his licence revoked for four years. Here’s another nickname for Jasper, from someone unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with him: Terrible Human Being. “Jasper is a liar!” his victim told PsychSearch. “He said I made up the story about our sexual relationship to his wife. Then he turned around and admitted it to the medical board. He is a terrible human being! He’s no longer a doctor anymore and thank God for that. He will always be a liar, cheating husband and fake person but at least he can no longer harm anyone anymore for now.” This is not an isolated incident. Jasper is one of many, many criminal psychiatrists featured on the Psychsearch website. In fact, getting into legal trouble for sexual misconduct is so prevalent with psychiatrists, Psychsearch has dedicated an entire section of its site solely to this one topic. Just in the last few weeks, a number of psychiatrists have gotten themselves into trouble for possession of child porn, having a sexual relationship with a patient, sexual assault of a boy, molestation, sexual assault of men, and sexual conduct with a patient, and the list goes on. Abusive, psychotic, delusional and antisocial are how this study describes such psychiatric sexual deviants. Since the beginning, sex and sexual pain have been a recurring fascination with psychiatrists: the focus of Freud on sexual desire, the use of lobotomies to “cure” homosexuality, psychosurgeries to kill overactive libidos, medication to control sex offenders and castration to subdue rebellious youth. There is even a manual on “Love Treatment”, advocating for therapists having sex with their patients. By its own admission, psychiatry as a profession has a serious problem with sexual misconduct. Despite widespread efforts to prevent sexual violations with patients, such misconduct is more likely to occur with psychiatrists than any other specialist. Similarly, a study by the California Medical Board found that psychiatrists were significantly more likely than non-psychiatrists to be disciplined for sexual relations with patients. Dr. Al Parides, Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA said it best, “If you are saying that psychiatry promotes a certain form of morality that is a deviant morality in regard to many areas including sexual behavior – yes, I would agree.” In a decent society the rapist is regarded with contempt and disgust. If an entire profession cannot control itself and allows its members to continually destroy the lives of others through acts of sexual abuse, that entire profession must be regarded with the utmost contempt and disgust. If you, or someone you know, is a victim of psychiatric sexual or other abuse, file a complaint at PsychSearch.net. The state will only investigate if they have a complaint against the psychiatrist. psychsearch.net/colin.taufer…

PsychSearch CONSUMER PROTECTION? Colin Taufer Recently, it was reported by the Consumer Product Safety Commission that someone suffered a knee injury after sitting on a brand of bench that collapsed. Six others reported this same bench collapsing but reported no injuries. Consequently, the CPSC told all consumers to stop using these particular benches and return them to their point of purchase for a full refund. Similarly, the CPSC ordered all consumers to stop using, and return for refunds a particular brand of glass dresser knob. The reason? They received two reports of lacerations from broken glass knobs. About 363,000 knobs had been sold in the United States. Based on these reports, representing some .0000006% of all units sold, the knobs were pulled off the market by the federal government and the retailers required to pay back all purchases to consumers. In 2015, the #2 selling drug according to webmd.com, measured by sales was the anti-psychotic drug Abilify. It took in $7.9 billion in a twelve month span. One reason for such exorbitant revenues is the profit margins. The cheapest price without insurance for Abilify for one 30-tablet bottle can be found at the cut-rate Walmart price of $1004.55. That’s more than $33 per tablet! This helps explain how big pharma could afford to spend over $244 million on lobbying in 2016 alone. Certainly such a financially successful product must have an equally stellar safety record with its consumers. Unfortunately, this is very much not the case. There have been 13,445 adverse reaction reports filed with the United States Food and Drug Administration in connection with Abilify. And these reactions aren’t simple knee injuries or cut fingers. These are 345 cases of psychotic disorders and 765 cases of tardive dyskinesia (involuntary muscle movements), to name two categories. More alarming than these reports, six countries have published drug regulatory warnings citing side effects with Abilify ranging from birth defects, strokes and causing death or increased risk of death. How is it possible that one consumer good gets promptly pulled from the market by the Fed because two people had to Band-Aid their fingers, but another consumer “good” caused psychosis in hundreds and is linked to deaths yet remains on the market racking up record profits? Thank you, Uncle Sam. I am comforted to know that because of you my fellow citizens can safely experience antipsychotic drug side-effects such as birth defects, strokes and psychotic disorders but their fingers will be saved from dangerous glass knobs. psychsearch.net/colin.taufer…

PsychSearch Psychiatry: Poisoning the American Mind Colin Taufer The greatest source of poisoning in America is not the pesticide DDT or lead-based paints or arsenic contaminated drinking water. It’s not contaminated food or toxic cleaning agents. The greatest source of harmful and fatal poisons in the United States is psychiatric drugs. The common denominator of every psych drug is what it does neurologically. Each one, regardless of what its manufacturer claims it does, poisons the brain, causes severe biochemical imbalances in the brain, and impairs neurotransmitter systems. They are destructive and poisonous to the nerve cells within the brain. In short, they are brain-disabling neurotoxins . In 2016, more than 338 million prescriptions were written for antidepressant medications in the United States. That’s more than enough neurotoxins for every man, woman, and child in the United States. On top of that, tens of millions more were written for anxiety, ADHD, and schizophrenia. Forget empathetic talk therapy or time-consuming psychotherapy. Psychiatrists make two, three, four times as much money being prescription pushing drug dealers for Big Pharma as they do as “therapists” . The more psychiatric neurotoxins per patient the better. One unbelievable but true measure of how awash Americans are with psychiatric neurotoxins is this. Last year, the American Chemical Society published a study that found the number one pollutant found in fish in the Niagara River was antidepressants ! From the cradle to the grave, no segment of the population sits outside their sights. Children 2 years old and younger are being given antipsychotics regularly, the number of youth taking antidepressants is growing, and over the last decade the number of US senior citizens taking three or more psych drugs more than doubled Across the boards, in every age group, the percentage of Americans taking psychiatric neurotoxins continues to climb. But this is not enough for the Big Pharma drug cartel and their psychiatrist pushers. They’re targeting more neurotoxins for every demographic and are on the way to full saturation: an entire population hooked on brain-disabling psych drugs. psychsearch.net/colin-taufer…