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James Grigson, highly criticized Texas psychiatrist nicknamed “Dr. Death.”
Texas Tribune Texas district attorney who prosecuted Jeff Wood now wants him off death row The prosecutor in the death penalty case of a man who didn't kill anyone has asked the parole board and Gov. Greg Abbott to change his sentence to life in prison. By Jolie Mccullough December 7, 2017 --- Excerpt Psychiatrist James Grigson Six days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped it and sent the case back to the trial court in Kerr County to review Wood’s claim that a jury was improperly persuaded to hand down a death sentence because [...]
“MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY
PsychSearch “MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY Colin Taufer In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. His award-winning contribution to mankind? “His discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. A leucotomy is more commonly known as a lobotomy, the neurosurgical procedure consisting of cutting or scraping away the connective tissue to and from the brain’s prefrontal cortex in the name of mental health. Or, in the words of psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, it’s simply the disabling of the brain. The “ice pick lobotomy” was one of the most common psychiatric “therapies” of the late 1940’s [...]
You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison
PsychSearch You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison Colin Taufer His final days were spent in a bare jail cell alone — no bed, no mattress, no bench, no sink. His room constantly illuminated by overhead lights, and he barely slept, less than 30 minutes over a two-day period. He didn’t eat. His toilet was a grate on the floor. Eight days after being admitted and forty pounds lighter, he died covered in his own waste. Marc Moreno was eighteen-years old. He had a history of mental illness. How does it happen that a teen going through the most desperate [...]
The “Church” of the Holy Label
PsychSearch The “Church” of the Holy Label Colin Taufer Those that knew her found Candace Downing to be a very bright little girl and an overachiever, the youngest in a loving family. When she was in sixth grade, her psychiatrist, after a very brief evaluation, decided the anxieties she was experiencing during school tests would require a prescription for the antidepressant Zoloft. Her prescription was increased before she started the seventh grade. Not long after, twelve year old Candace hung herself from her four-poster bed — another life destroyed by psychiatric labeling. According to the bible of psychiatry, the DSM [...]
Psychiatric diagnosis from afar
PsychSearch Psychiatric Diagnosis from Afar Colin Taufer When psychiatrists make a claim in which they cite their “ethical responsibility” as justification for doing so, it is both absurd and laughable. Psychiatrists cannot and should not be trusted. Such was the case in April of this year when a group of psychiatrists proclaimed, "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness." Visit the homepage of PsychSearch any day of the week and you will find a fresh assortment of mugshots of psychiatrists in trouble with the law for sex crimes, drug abuse, or fraud [...]
“Forensic Psychiatry” Insanity
PsychSearch "Forensic Psychiatry" Insanity Colin Taufer Forensic Psychiatry* - a subspecialty of psychiatry which applies to legal issues. There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the Offense The American Psychiatric Association wants the world to know that mental illness is a disease just like heart disease or diabetes. This is simply not true. Diseases have biomarkers which can be tested for and proven to exist. A real doctor can examine an x-ray and diagnose heart disease or read a blood test and [...]
The Shrinks are Shrinking
PsychSearch The Shrinks are Shrinking Colin Taufer "Psychiatry is in decline and is becoming obsolete.” This statement does not come from an anti-psychiatry group or a former patient with an axe to grind or a dubious website. This quote comes from an article published by The British Journal of Medical Practitioners, a professional, peer-reviewed online medical journal. The title of the article says it all Psychiatry in Decline. How does the author, a noted English psychiatrist, make his point? Plentifully, honestly and accurately: ● Psychotropic drugs are perceived as a form of control by psychiatrists towards their patients. ● [...]
THE “ETHICS” OF PSYCHIATRY
PsychSearch “The “Ethics” of Psychiatry By Colin Taufer What is and isn’t ethical is easily understood. While everyone may not be able to give a dictionary-perfect definition of ethics, every one of us knows fundamentally that if someone is ethical they know right from wrong and can and will act accordingly. More fundamentally, if someone is ethical they are truthful; truthful to themselves and others. They represent themselves honestly. When studying any subject to try to understand its fundamentals and what it stands for ethically, the best place to start is the name itself. “Psychiatry” comes from the mid [...]
TelePsychiatry
PsychSearch TelePsychiatry: Lives Ruined at a Distance Colin Taufer There was a time when psychiatric diagnosis required live face to face consultation before patients’ lives were ruined through psychiatry. Now, through modern technology, lives are also ruined at a distance with telepsychiatry: psych evaluation and drug prescription through teleconferencing. That telepsychiatry exists at all as a form of psychiatric “therapy” only highlights the broken and destructive nature of the psychiatric diagnostic process. Like all psychiatric examination, telepsychiatry diagnosis requires no blood tests, x-rays, brain scans or any other biological testing for that matter. Diagnosis is purely subjective and unscientific, full [...]
The Lie That Kills
PsychSearch The Lie That Kills and Makes Psychiatry Billions: Chemical Imbalance in the Brain Colin Taufer In late 2015, Mike Arens’ family was faced with the gloomy and joyless task of piecing together how their fifty-four year old son, brother, and friend was found dead in his Minnesota home. It didn’t take them long to find out how he died and who killed him. Inside Arens’ house they found hundreds of empty pill bottles, all of them prescribed by the same person, psychiatrist Faruk Abuzzahab . Abuzzahab prescribed at least eight different psychiatric drugs to Arens while at the [...]