MISDIAGNOSIS IS MALPRACTICE. PSYCHIATRY IS MISDIAGNOSIS.

Psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health practitioners use the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to "diagnose" people as having mental illnesses. However, not a single "mental disorder" label in the DSM is representative of an actual disease or condition that can be shown to exist by physical evidence or test results. There is no science behind it. It is therefore clear that any diagnosis based on the DSM is misdiagnosis.

(DSM's writers and developers are not so much scientists as they are marketing men, seeking to increase sales of psychiatric pharmaceuticals made by companies from which they have benefited financially.*)

SUPREME COURT JUDGES PSYCHIATRY AS LACKING

Even the United States Supreme Court recognizes that psychiatry is not science—it is opinion. A recent Supreme Court decision stated that a psychiatrist or psychologist is no more qualified than any other person to give an opinion about someone's mental condition.**

Though they are classified as physicians, psychiatrists—unlike real medical doctors—don't conduct any tests to substantiate the use of a mental disorder label; they possess no more skill or knowledge than the man on the street when it comes to diagnosing the causes of patients' problems.

In spite of this medical and scientific void, psychiatrists continue to treat patients as though they were mentally ill. As a result, patients suffer harm, reduced health, loss of time, and in some cases, loss of family, home and career.

Ultimately, by luck or by tragedy, the cases you are about to read discovered they had real physical illnesses or conditions that manifested as mental or emotional suffering. When the real physical cause was treated, they returned to health and were no longer "mentally ill."

All of them were misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. All of them were victims of malpractice.

*Lisa Cosgrove, et al, "Financial Ties Between DSM-IV Panel Members and the Pharmaceutical Industry," Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, Vol. 75, 2006.

**Supreme Court Decision in Eric Michael Clark v. Arizona, case #05-5966.