Citizens Commission on Human Rights labels psychiatry as a junk science

In its compelling publication "Psychiatry, An Industry of Death" the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has referred to psychiatry as a "junk science". The CCHR has stated that the primary reason for the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the psychiatrists has been to provide psychiatry with a system of compensation for insurance billing which is similar to that which is used by mainstream medicine. The entries in the DSM are simply alleged disorders passed into being by a committee of quack psychiatrists and not real diseases. The categorization of clusters of symptoms in the DSM does not have any known causes and none of the resultant diagnoses have been supported by objective scientific evidence. Yet in spite of the complete lack of scientific credentials behind the DSM the CCHR reports that psychiatry in the United States alone brings in over $100 billion a year in funding for "treatment" of DSM-disorders. Renee Garfinkle, a psychologist, has been quoted by the CCHR as saying the disorders to be included in psychiatry's DSM are chosen by a majority vote of American Psychiatric Association members based on the same scientific level of sophistication as "you would choose a restaurant." The CCHR has pointed out that nevertheless the tragically flawed DSM is used not only to diagnose mental illness and prescribe treatment, but also to resolve child custody battles, discrimination cases based on alleged psychiatric disability, to support court testimony, to modify education, and more. Still, there is absolutely no science at all to this diagnostic system as insurance companies estimate that the cost of treatment for "disorders" which cannot be physically proven is two times greater than for general medical conditions. Furthermore the interventions of the psychiatrists are consistently highly destructive. What is needed is the abolition of psychiatry and a Natural Mental Health Care Revolution.