Psych Observer - Exposing Bad Psychiatrists

By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
Posted on July 23, 2008, Printed on July 24, 2008

American psychiatry has been rocked by Congress. Congressional investigators first exposed the financial relationships between high-profile psychiatrists and drug companies. “But now the profession itself is under attack in Congress,” reported the New York Times on July 12, 2008.

Specifically under attack is psychiatry’s premier professional organization, the American Psychiatric Association. The New York Times stated, “In 2006, the latest year for which numbers are available, the drug industry accounted for about 30 percent of the association’s $62.5 million in financing. About half of that money went to drug advertisements in psychiatric journals and exhibits at the annual meeting, and the other half to sponsor fellowships, conferences and industry symposiums at the annual meeting.”

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This poor psychiatric patient, with no significant criminal record doesn’t like being confined and forcefully drugged against his will, tried to run for freedom when he was being transfered into a new psychiatric hospital. I think it’s safe to say that hes not happy with his “treatment”.

From Staff Reports | The News Observer
A mental patient briefly escaped from John Umstead Hospital in Butner on Monday as staff were moving him to a new psychiatric hospital nearby.

According to a police report, the patient was being loaded onto a bus with other patients being transferred to Central Regional Hospital, a new $130 million building less than a mile away.

The patient stated he didn’t want to go to the new hospital and took off running.

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