Blaming The Brain: The “Chemical Imbalance” Fraud

The cornerstone of psychiatry’s disease model today is the theory that a brain-based, chemical imbalance causes mental illness. However, Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of Public Affairs of the American Psychiatric Association said that this theory was “probably drug industry derived.”¹ His cohort, Dr. Steven Sharfstein, APA president, was forced under media pressure to admit that there is “no clean cut lab test” to determine a chemical imbalance in the brain.²

¹ Interview of Dr. Mark Graff on CBS Studio 2, July 2005.
² “All Fired Up,” People magazine, 11 July 2005.

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