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4 In defence of the goldwater rule – emergent politicized or state sponsored psychiatric overdiagnosis in mass media and rise and fall of totalitarian states in modern times europe and america
  1. Pedram Kazemi-Esfarjani
  1. Lovund Maritime Clinic, Alumnus of University of Copenhagen, Postgraduate Student at QMUL, University of London (MSc Trauma Sciences, Military and Humanitarian), London, UK

Abstract

There is increasing evidence of political or technocratic administrative State Sponsored Armchair Psychiatric Overdiagnosis conveyed through Mass Media leading to ban or banishment of conscientious healthcare staff, leaders, concerned patients or their next of kin, and dissenting political leaders.

This abstract shall be referenced by futher Public domain evidence of escalating efforts by State Sponsored agencies and individuals to abolish Goldstandard of safeguarding against Psychiatric Overdiagnosis of political dissent, American Psychological Association (APA) Goldwater Rule - https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/goldwater-rule - since this topic last was presented at the poster session at Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference 2015 held at National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, USA.

I shall present evidence of recent Public discourse criticizing more frequent breaches of the Goldwater Rule, not only in United States, but also in Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark, all supposed advanced liberal democracies championing highest standards of Duty of Care in collecting and forensically validating and ethically and legally testing scientific, clinical and even political evidence before subscribing to any diagnosis or course of action, or publication of conclusions.

The scope of Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis is widened from sporadic technocratic administrative bullying of conscientious staff raising legitimate, evidence-based, yet inconvenient concerns, to systematic smear campaigns in local, national or global mass media.

Objectives To elucidate and forensically scrutinize and challenge trends in Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis and resulting gag orders, threats of Psychiatric tools of forced deprivation of liberties and free speecg, unjust discrediting of raised concerns, character assassination and stimgatizing injury to professional and private standing of victims of such ocerdiagnosis, and imminent and present danger of State Police forced medication, often with drugs known to have frequent fatal side effects.

Method Forensic collection and analysis of Public domain evidence of Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis and its recorded consequences for individual victims, systems and organizations, nation states and strategic global system implications of such Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis in society, in particular in sectors in charge of governance, individual liberty and safeguarding and national security.

Archive research and interviews with scholars who have investigsted history of Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis.

Results From publicized examples of exploitation of Politicized, State-Sponsored Psychiatric Diagnosis and media reporting of such high profile cases, to increasing breaches of APA Goldwater Rule, evidence suggest deliberate attempt are being made by politicians, technocratic bureaucrats and some prominent healthcare professionals and some media corporation editorial boards, aiming at aboloshing APA Goldwater Rule and abandoning ethical, scientific, clinical, forensic and legal Duty of Care and obligations to evidence-based diagnosis.

Conclusions There is sufficienr historic and current forensic evidence of urgent need for ethical healthcare professionals and Academia as well as State actors, Parliaments, Courts of Law, media and grassroot oganizations to monitor, scrutinize and appropriately oppose apparent and probably concerted efforts to bully, silence or eliminate dissent and debate, and drivers seem to be cronies and oligarchs of State powers, funded by tax payers, supported by some prominent members of Academia in advanced liberal democratic nations, by these State sponsored powers’ escalating media campaigns of Politicized, State Sponsored Psychiatric Overdiagnosis in breach of APA Goldwater Rule.

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