> That doesn't make the field a fraud though. No it doesn't. What does make the field fraud is the Rosenhan experiment, and related experiments, which proved e

> That doesn't make the field a fraud though. No it doesn't. What does make the field fraud is the Rosenhan experiment, and related experiments, which proved empirically: 1) psychiatrists cannot identify mental illness 2) psychiatrists cannot identify absence of mental illness And we're not talking 1% false positives or false negatives. We're talking 100% false positives, and ~17% false negatives were observed. That is not reasonable. It's not even that it was up to chance, that they didn't know, as that would obviously result in 50% figures. 100% (and anything over 50%) can only be explained by psychiatrists purposefully, willfully misdiagnosing patients. But it gets worse. 3) ALL psychiatrists tested used drugs on these patients that were misdiagnosed. Every last one. 4) Despite learning the truth, 100% were unwilling to change their opinion and instead used physical violence, and the threat of more physical violence against their patients to extract compliance. This is not just damning. This is consistent, 100% fraud. Nothing else can explain these figures. Needless to say, the experiment has been repeated, verified through different means, even in popular culture and TV shows. Every time the results were equally damning. These experiments took place in 1887, 1968, 1973, 1988, and 2008. Similar studies exist for youth protection and mental health diagnosis. There has been no improvement over time. And many studies claim that diagnoses always follow the space available in mental health programmes, whether inpatient or outpatient, in a way that no other medical discipline has ever seen. Many papers point out that it is supply of care, not demand, that determines the amount of mental disorders in the population. Furthermore, every real illness has systematically been removed from psychiatry into normal medicine. Not one have they been able to hold on to. Examples: epilepsy, narcolepsy, aneurysms, hysteria, herpes, many forms of intoxication and drug use, various forms of hormone imbalances (and quite a few diseases causing them), TONS of disorders that cause pain, ... There are still "unsolved" real diseases that are treated in psychiatry, only because there is no treatment for them, well known ones are Parkinson and Dementia, Low IQ, Down syndrome and others. Again there are many types of intoxication that fall under this umbrella, which includes abuse of psychiatric medication itself, sometimes by psychiatrists or other psychiatric personnel. Other psychiatric illnesses turned out to be racism or social biases of psychiatrists and nothing more, like homosexuality, prostitution (still often done, today), feminism and even then we're ignoring "Aktion T4" and a lot more such efforts. It is not very well known, but the battle in the US for acceptance of homosexuality and to a lesser extent feminism focused on removal of psychiatry from the lives of people. There are many reasons the field is fraudulent and people working in it know that it is.