One psychiatrist says, "I am mad as hell about being lied to"

Me too--and I am not a psychiatrist.  I am glad that this one is writing about what he learns.

via 1 Boring Old Man:

"I am not a neuropsychopharmacologist or a even neuroscientist – certainly not a clinical neuroscientist. By my own estimate, I’m not included among Dr. Stahl’s "pharmascolds, scientologists, and antimedication crowd who believe either there is no such thing as mental illness, that medication should not be used, or both." I haven’t personally been harmed or had someone close to me harmed by taking a psychoactive medication. I am a psychoanalyst, a group that was disenfranchised with the rise of the psychopharmacological focus of modern psychiatry, but that didn’t hurt me personally, and it has been true for thirty years without getting me stirred up. So in-so-far as I can know myself, my credential for inserting myself into the public discourse is that I’m a psychiatrist, and I’m angry. Of course I’m still unhappy about being marginalized in my specialty because I still think it’s important to talk to people about how their minds work in ways that get them in trouble, and trying to help them untie those knots. But even that’s a chronic frustration – true for decades. The thing that brought me out of the woodwork is that I’m mad as hell about being being lied to. And I have been lied to, as have our patients." (emphasis mine) read here

Thank you and Bless you!  I too am mad as hell about being lied to.