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'''The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam''' is a video (available to view on YouTube) which explains how psychiatric categories are created ''simply by taking a vote among a small group of psychiatrists'' (no empirical scientific studies are ''ever'' done) in order to decide which "mental illnesses" should be included in the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) of the American Psychiatric Association (the A.P.A) The DSM ''does not'' contain any statistics, by the way -- it just makes the manual sound more "scientific".
{{Infobox film
| name = The DSM:<br> Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam
| yearReleased=2011
|mpaaRating=Unrated
|director= Citizens Commission on Human Rights
|stars= See:[[#Cast|Cast list]]
}}
'''The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam''' is a 2011 video documentary which was produced and distributed by Citizens Commission on Human Rights<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2164516/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co Company Credits (IMDb)]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cchr.org/ Citizens Commission on Human Rights]</ref>  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFhm-xhQocM available to view on YouTube]) which explains how psychiatric categories are created ''simply by taking a vote among a small group of psychiatrists'' (no empirical scientific studies are ''ever'' done) in order to decide which so-called "mental illnesses" or "psychological disorders" should be included in the [[DSM]] (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) of the American Psychiatric Association (the A.P.A). "The weakness” of the manual, ... “is its lack of validity.”<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-nimh-withdraws-support-dsm-5 The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5]</ref>


A ''must watch'' for ''everyone''. It is the DSM that makes BoyLovers crazy (literally), as it (formerly) did with its classification of homosexuals.
A ''must watch'' for ''everyone''. It is the DSM that makes BoyLovers crazy (literally), as it (formerly) did with its classification of [[homosexual]]s.<ref>[http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.138.2.210 The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues]</ref>


==Commentary==
==Commentary==
From the YouTube channel:
From the YouTube channel:
:"[The DSM is] psychiatry's best-selling catalog of mental illness — 943 pages long and covering everything from depression and anxiety to stuttering, cigarette addiction, fear of spiders, nightmares, problems with math and even disorder of infancy — all reinterpreted and labeled as a brain disease."
:"The DSM is psychiatry's best-selling catalog of mental illness — 943 pages long and covering everything from depression and anxiety to stuttering, cigarette addiction, fear of spiders, nightmares, problems with math and even disorder of infancy — all reinterpreted and labeled as a brain disease." <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFhm-xhQocM</ref>
 
*Note: The producers of this film, ''the Citizens Commission on Human Rights'' "was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions and stripped of all constitutional, [[civil rights|civil]] and [[human rights]]." <ref>[http://www.cchr.org/about-us/what-is-cchr.html What is the Citizens Commission on Human Rights?] </ref> [[Civil commitment]] continues to be an ongoing [[Human_rights_and_boylove#Human_rights_violations|human rights issue]] within the boylove community.


==Relevance to BoyLovers==
==Relevance to BoyLovers==
You wouldn't even ''be here'' reading this post if it weren't for ''psychiatrists'' and their ''fraudulent theories.''
You wouldn't even ''be here'' reading this post if it weren't for ''psychiatrists'' and their ''fraudulent theories.''
==Cast==
{|class="wikitable" border="1" style="font-size: 90%;" ;
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan=4 style="background:#b0c4de;" | Credited cast <ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2164516/ Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam (2011) (IMDb)]</ref>
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#ccc;" | Actor
! style="background:#ccc;" | Role
|-
|Lynn Alford-Burow
|Lynn Alford-Burow (Herself)
|-
|Fred A. Baughman
|Fred A. Baughman (Himself)
|-
|Richard Bentall
|Richard Bentall (Himself)
|-
|Samuel Blumenfeld
|Samuel Blumenfeld (Himself)
|-
|Joan Brown
|Joan Brown (Herself)
|-
|Lisa Cain
|Lisa Cain (Herself)
|-
|George Capsis
|George Capsis (Himself)
|-
|Moira Dolan
|Moira Dolan (Herself)
|-
|Mark Donohoe
|Mark Donohoe (Himself)
|-
|Jonathan Emord
|Jonathan Emord (Himself)
|-
|Patti Giuliano
|Patti Giuliano (Herself)
|-
|Howard Glasser
|Howard Glasser (Himself)
|-
|Thomas Glick
|Thomas Glick (Himself)
|-
|Reuben Guttman
|Reuben Guttman (Himself)
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
*The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam at YouTube:
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFhm-xhQocM The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam at YouTube]
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcuhhJ1BaMk
*[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-nimh-withdraws-support-dsm-5 The NIMH Withdraws Support for DSM-5. The latest development is a humiliating blow to the APA. (May 04, 2013)]
 
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2164516/ Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam (2011) (IMDb)]
[[Category:Film]]
*[http://www.cchr.org/ Citizens Commission on Human Rights]
*[http://www.cchr.org/videos/diagnostic-statistical-manual.html Citizens Commission on Human Rights Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam (webpage)]
[[Category:Videos]]
[[Category:Documentary films‎]]
[[Category:English-language films]]

Revision as of 16:00, 5 March 2021

The DSM:
Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam

Year Released: 2011
MPAA Rating (USA): Unrated
Director: Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Starring: See:Cast list


The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam is a 2011 video documentary which was produced and distributed by Citizens Commission on Human Rights[1] [2] (available to view on YouTube) which explains how psychiatric categories are created simply by taking a vote among a small group of psychiatrists (no empirical scientific studies are ever done) in order to decide which so-called "mental illnesses" or "psychological disorders" should be included in the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) of the American Psychiatric Association (the A.P.A). "The weakness” of the manual, ... “is its lack of validity.”[3]

A must watch for everyone. It is the DSM that makes BoyLovers crazy (literally), as it (formerly) did with its classification of homosexuals.[4]

Commentary

From the YouTube channel:

"The DSM is psychiatry's best-selling catalog of mental illness — 943 pages long and covering everything from depression and anxiety to stuttering, cigarette addiction, fear of spiders, nightmares, problems with math and even disorder of infancy — all reinterpreted and labeled as a brain disease." [5]
  • Note: The producers of this film, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights "was co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz at a time when patients were being warehoused in institutions and stripped of all constitutional, civil and human rights." [6] Civil commitment continues to be an ongoing human rights issue within the boylove community.

Relevance to BoyLovers

You wouldn't even be here reading this post if it weren't for psychiatrists and their fraudulent theories.

Cast

Credited cast [7]
Actor Role
Lynn Alford-Burow Lynn Alford-Burow (Herself)
Fred A. Baughman Fred A. Baughman (Himself)
Richard Bentall Richard Bentall (Himself)
Samuel Blumenfeld Samuel Blumenfeld (Himself)
Joan Brown Joan Brown (Herself)
Lisa Cain Lisa Cain (Herself)
George Capsis George Capsis (Himself)
Moira Dolan Moira Dolan (Herself)
Mark Donohoe Mark Donohoe (Himself)
Jonathan Emord Jonathan Emord (Himself)
Patti Giuliano Patti Giuliano (Herself)
Howard Glasser Howard Glasser (Himself)
Thomas Glick Thomas Glick (Himself)
Reuben Guttman Reuben Guttman (Himself)

References

See also

External links