Are Psychiatrists Inventing Mental Illnesses to Feed Us More Pills?
Submitted on December 28, 2011
“This has become a grassroots movement among mental health professionals, who are saying we already have a national problem with over-medication of children and the elderly, and we don’t want to exacerbate that...[I]t will create false epidemics where hundreds of thousands...who really are normal will be diagnosed with a mental disorder and given powerful psychiatric medications that have dangerous side effects...That is not tolerable.”
- David Elkins, professor emeritus at Pepperdine University and president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology
