David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades
The fact is psychiatry today still lacks tests or any proof of its claims of &quot;chemical imbalance&quot;, which remains unproven. No one had established a profile for what a &quot;balanced brain chemistry&quot;looks like, nor do they test for any brain chemistry imbalance.<p>Diagnosis is still left to the subjective assessment of the practitioner before prescribing powerful psychotropics that DO change brain chemistry in unpredictable ways, and cause a host of side effects often worse than the original symptoms.<p>So the argument today that psychiatry lacks any scientific basis and rigor for its practices is still very valid and legitimate.