I agree that is a sickening response; the spellbinding that continues with regard to the current paradigms in child (and adult) psychiatry seems to have no bounds.

Thousands of grateful children?

I suppose they have those thank you cards in their data base somewhere. Too bad they've missed a good PR opportunity by not disclosing those.

It should read more like, 1000's of families harmed by a dominant paradigm fully based in the pharamceutical industry, and we plan on donating 3 million dollars to charity.

Their impressive body of academic work, backed up by significant data and rigorous science, has earned them reputations as international leaders in the understanding and treatment of serious pediatric psychiatric disorders.

In other words: if they are preventing selling drugs to Americans children they will find a way to poison children around the world.
Biederman has links with Brazilian psychiatrists.
I've put a link on another post showing a picture of Brazilian psychiatrist during a workshop in Boston.
The campaign in Brazil about ADHD.
Keep your hands away from the children!
You're putting in danger the life of future adults.
How many times, how many $ billions is enough for these people?
The Harvard mafia has already affect the life of a certain percentage of one generation.

These guys really believe they are untouchable. I certainly hope Senator Grassly stays on top off them.

MGH wrote:
"...Their impressive body of academic work..."

Erm. Fuck off. An impressive piece of intellectual work furthers academic (and presumably, in this case, clinical) understanding. And yet the fuckers are as clueless about how to treat mental illness as ever they were. What a bunch of charlatans. And the irony of it is that they get decorated for being clueless charlatans, too.

Matt

"Perhaps most important, they are beloved and trusted by thousands of grateful children and families who have counted on them for treatment, counseling, help and hope." .

And what about the thousands of ungrateful children and families who have died because these bastards have been pushing dangerous and lethal medications. Lets just forget those that have died and suffered other serious side effects of these medications that have been pushed to line pockets.

How dare anyone judge these doctors because they have made millions killing people in the guise of helping them.

Their "impressive body of work" has negatively impacted and wrongly labelled around a million children so far. I'm afraid to ask why this bp in children hasn't made it over the border to Mexico or Canada or surely they will go there next, on the Pharma payroll. I found Harvard's statement unbelievable - actually I can't imagine Harvard's heart going out to anybody because I don't think Harvard has a heart.

I'm thinking of something along the lines of the theory of prior commitment: if they distance themselves from these doctors for their unbelievably sketchy behavior, they have to question the fact that they went along with it for so long, putting blame on themselves. That's hard for a lot of people who can't take responsibility for their own involvement at whatever level. Rather childish, really. "Grateful children and families" - what, the parents that have the nagging suspicion that they've done irreparable damage to their own children, or the children that think they have something inherently wrong with them from a young age? I can't even fathom how a kid in grade school grapples with everyone they trust telling them they're ill or crazy or screwed up in some way... It is unthinkable that there hasn't been a wide uprising against this kind of "help". Your kid doesn't sit still long enough for you to watch American Idol? Oh, we can dope him up until he's catatonic, enjoy! There, I ranted.

We always come back to the same problem, the subjective nature of "bipolar disorder." If you believe it exists,then the person who "has" it is more of a danger to society than a value and if the treatment kills them a little quicker society is better off. That's why folks who believe in the disorder from label givers to label accepters never really do anything about this sort of research, they don't care, sort of like if the Catholic Church did a study to see if holy water cured demon possession and it turned out the study was sponsored by a maker of bogus holy water that stood to profit unimaginably financially if the church found that it's water cured demon possession and it came out that the priests involved in the study received huge under the table payments to "find" that the water worked, i.e. cured demon possession. Those who believe in demon possession would buy the water no matter how much proof there was it didn't work and it would never work because there's no such thing as demon possession and it's impossible to cure something that never existed in the first place.

Similarly childhood bipolar doesn't exist. The real crime is thinking it does. Over on Carlat's blog there's the typical profession victim mother of "bipolar child," writing about three year olds that come after their parents with steak knives (yes she actually posted that)! It would be a waste to enter into a dialog with her, because of course it's abusive to leave your three year old with access to a steak knife in the first place. Oh well.

"...Your kid doesn't sit still long enough for you to watch American Idol? Oh, we can dope him up until he's catatonic, enjoy! There, I ranted."

Yes: God forbid that one's children should rebel against ignored, or treated like halfwits and deviants. Children are little geniuses, unless we treat them as if they can teach us nothing, and have to be instructed in all the ways of our world. What's so special about the adult world, that we would want limit genius, in that way?

Matt

I have today stumbled upon a rare find in my internet travels in regards to psychiatry....

None of you will regret giving this a read. I just HAD to stop by and tell you about my find. I put it here in this blog post because it was the most recent, I don't really have anything to say about the post apart from the usual, ok here I go...

Biopsychiatric ideologues have an ill gotten monopoly on human distress backed by two blank checks...

The blank check of corporate pharma and the blank check that your body and our children's bodies must cash.

The new film 'Generation Rx' is coming out soon please youtube search it.

Back to my link, which is very interesting....

http://www.metzelf.info/articles/index.html

I live in NH, on the doorstep of Mighty Harvard. This response is *exactly* what I expected. You're dealing with a bastion of our society's wealthiest and most powerful forces, so why expect different? In the end, the personal really is the political and as most of us here know, the mental "health" profession is one of the biggest enforcers of the socio-economic status quo.

Besides, Harvard will never admit to making a mistake. They're above all that, doncha know.
Sherry

well said, Sherry.

Stan just made a post that I believe you all should see:
http://bipolar-stanscroniclesandnarritive.blogspot.com/search/label/waking%20up%20with%20a%20yawn

"Is Something Not Quite Right With Stan"-we all belong as just one voice, and are part of one voice.