The dreams of our fathers from St. Louis are undisguised. They were the mentors of John Feighner, Robert Spitzer, and made up a fourth of the DSM-III Committee. Click on the picture from their web-site above for their story of their contribution to the DSM-III and also look at their current view of the State of Psychiatry. I understand from people who knew them that they were very bright and nice people. I have nothing to add to their narrative…
Interesting website, and revealing. Take a gander at the images used to represent patients. The first is of a restrained/unresponsive ECT patient with 4 white coats looking on dispassionately. No contact, whatsoever – eyes on the electrodes, not the patient. Object to be acted upon. There is another of four distorted closeups of eyes – unattached to people. And finally, there are the crayola worthy colorful fMRI images of brains. No patients needed at all.
It was obviously staged [no iv, no anesthesia, no blood pressure cuff, nurse touching the electrodes] with his finger was on the button. It looked like something from a black and white swedish art film aiming to create a sense of deadness and depersonification. I wonder what they thought they were showing us when they took it? when the put it on their web site?
Symbolism to me was the use of science and technology in the ECT scene.
They keep on repeating current psychiatry is now “evidence-based medicine.” Would someone please help these doctors with their shared delusion?