Brainaction

Long after Ivan Illich (1977) denounced professional expansionism it continues unchecked. Governments struggle to contain the prohibitive cost of health services, but do nothing about its most blatant waste, the recurrent epidemics of pseudo-illness. Illich invented the term iatrogenesis, doctor-generated complaint....

Psychiatrists bemoan the deficiencies of their diagnostic labels while ignoring the cause, they use the wrong method, descriptive diagnosis (see Psychiatry). It identifies the symptoms that occur together as implying that they have a common cause. The reasoning survives because...