An Coras Leighis/De Medicinae et Medicamenti Naturalis

Psychiatry: The middle-class burden On "Future Tense" on RTE Radio One on the 1st October,  a journalist  introduced a magazine programme on scientific developments. Amongst the reports was one item on the latest research into "schizophrenia". It appears that medical researchers in the South are modifying their "theory" of the causes of schizophrenia. They now claim that the part of the brain which produces dopamine at the rear, receives its signal from an area at the front of the brain.  Their hypothesis that this signal from the front of the brain triggers the production of dopamine (the so-called  "anxiety transmitter"). Psychiatrists since the 1920's have based their "treatment" of "mental illness" on the unproven hypothesis that there is a chemical imbalance. This casting around for an excuse for medical "interventions" is a source of interest and income for middle class doctors, biochemists and thei...

PSYCHIATRY IN FERMANAGH In our first article "Psychiatry and Socialism" we established that psychiatry has no basis in the natural sciences. Now we will look at psychiatrists in action in one rural area in Ireland, Fermanagh.  The psychiatrists in charge of the case-lists in Fermanagh are Dr Diana Day-Cody and Dr Patrick Manley who are both consultants at the Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital in Omagh. Since her arrival on the scene in July 1992, Dr Day-Cody has left a trail of death and destruction through Fermanagh. Sixteen of her patients have died through suicide, heart attacks and avoidable incidents. Her policy of stigmatisation of the anxious and depressed has carved a bloody path. Manley is her understudy and works in a lock-up ward at the T&F. Day-Cody, in this writer's experience, suffers from the same delusions that she is paid to discover in her clientele. She detains clients against their will in her hospital and insists that they are "volun...