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El Ombu, Argentina<\/p><\/div>\n

Mi guerra de 40 a\u00f1os contra la psiquiatr\u00eda<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, Mises Institute, June 2026<\/p>\n

Hace cuarenta a\u00f1os asist\u00ed a las reuniones anuales de la Asociaci\u00f3n Americana de Psiquiatr\u00eda en Washington y nunca recuper\u00e9 la cordura. O al menos eso es lo que suponen los terapeutas bas\u00e1ndose en mis escritos sobre su interminable invenci\u00f3n de enfermedades mentales falsas.<\/p>\n

Asist\u00ed como periodista para buscar material para mi columna semanal en el Detroit News<\/em>. Esa conferencia desat\u00f3 en\u00e9rgicas protestas por parte de cienci\u00f3logos, feministas y personas que nunca perdonaron la terapia de electrochoque a la que fueron sometidas.<\/p>\n

Mi art\u00edculo de opini\u00f3n \u00abPura locura de los psiquiatras\u00bb, publicado el 5 de junio de 1986, enumeraba las \u00faltimas etiquetas traicioneras propuestas por los terapeutas:<\/p>\n

La primera de las nuevas \u00abenfermedades mentales\u00bb de 1986 es el \u00abtrastorno disf\u00f3rico premenstrual\u00bb. La APA afirma que los s\u00edntomas de esta \u00abenfermedad mental\u00bb incluyen \u00abirritabilidad\u00bb, \u00abfatiga acusada\u00bb y \u00abautoevaluaci\u00f3n negativa\u00bb. Seg\u00fan la definici\u00f3n de la APA, un tercio de todas las mujeres se vuelven locas una vez al mes.<\/p>\n

El segundo trastorno mental reci\u00e9n clasificado es el \u00abtipo de personalidad autodestructiva\u00bb, antes conocido como masoquismo com\u00fan y corriente. Los s\u00edntomas de este grave trastorno incluyen \u00abquejarse, directa o indirectamente, de no ser valorado\u00bb, \u00abrechazar repetidamente oportunidades de disfrutar\u00bb y \u00abpermanecer en relaciones en las que los dem\u00e1s\u2026 se aprovechan de \u00e9l o ella\u00bb. \u00a1Que venga el Valium!<\/p>\n

El tercer \u00abdescubrimiento\u00bb es una aut\u00e9ntica bomba, que sin duda aumentar\u00e1 la popularidad de la APA entre los abogados litigantes. La APA ha decidido, de forma provisional, que cualquier persona que fantasee de forma persistente con obligar a una persona que no da su consentimiento a mantener relaciones sexuales, o que lo haga de forma activa, padece \u00abviolaci\u00f3n paraf\u00edlica\u00bb. En otras palabras, una persona tendr\u00eda que estar loca para violar a alguien. El Comit\u00e9 de Mujeres de la APA afirm\u00f3 que la nueva categor\u00eda \u00abproporcionar\u00eda una alegaci\u00f3n de demencia instant\u00e1nea a cualquier persona acusada de violaci\u00f3n\u00bb. La redefinici\u00f3n de la violaci\u00f3n resume a la perfecci\u00f3n la visi\u00f3n que tiene la psiquiatr\u00eda del delito: nadie es responsable de nada y los psiquiatras deber\u00edan supervisarlo todo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Desde entonces, el sector terap\u00e9utico se ha vuelto mucho m\u00e1s descabellado. Los psiquiatras han inventado etiquetas que dejan a millones de americanos a su merced.<\/p>\n

El Manual diagn\u00f3stico y estad\u00edstico de los trastornos mentales\u00a0<\/em>(DSM) de la Asociaci\u00f3n Americana de Psiquiatr\u00eda recoge actualmente m\u00e1s de trescientas enfermedades mentales, cinco veces m\u00e1s de las que especificaba en la d\u00e9cada de 1960. El Dr. Allen Frances, en un art\u00edculo publicado en Psychology Today<\/em>, advirti\u00f3 de que la \u00faltima edici\u00f3n del DSM conten\u00eda \u00abmuchos cambios que parecen claramente peligrosos y carentes de fundamento cient\u00edfico\u00bb y que \u00abprobablemente dar\u00e1 lugar a un sobrediagn\u00f3stico masivo y a una medicaci\u00f3n excesiva y perjudicial\u00bb. Tras la redefinici\u00f3n del autismo en el DSM en la d\u00e9cada de los noventa, la tasa de autismo \u00abse multiplic\u00f3 r\u00e1pidamente casi por cien\u00bb. Esto ha provocado una avalancha de contratistas de Medicaid poco fiables y algunos de los peores casos de fraude federal del a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

Gracias a otra redefinici\u00f3n del DSM, \u00abel n\u00famero de ni\u00f1os y adolescentes americanos tratados por trastorno bipolar se multiplic\u00f3 por 40\u00bb entre 1993 y 2004, seg\u00fan inform\u00f3 The New York Times<\/em>. Conoc\u00ed a una de esas desafortunadas veintea\u00f1eras diagnosticadas hace unos a\u00f1os, cuando me tomaba un descanso para fumar fuera de una cervecer\u00eda de Maryland. Me pregunt\u00f3 si ten\u00eda cigarrillos; en su lugar, le ofrec\u00ed un puro. Le pregunt\u00e9 por el peculiar tatuaje que llevaba en la mu\u00f1eca y me dijo que era para recordar a las 18 personas que conoc\u00eda y que hab\u00edan fallecido. Estaba tan sombr\u00eda como la joven poeta a la que Mark Twain inmortaliz\u00f3 en Huckleberry Finn.<\/p>\n

Trabajaba creando carteles para una empresa local. Me confes\u00f3 con seriedad que su vida era dif\u00edcil porque le hab\u00edan diagnosticado un trastorno bipolar. Le pregunt\u00e9 c\u00f3mo se manifestaba su trastorno bipolar en su vida.<\/p>\n

\u00abAlgunas ma\u00f1anas, lo \u00fanico que quiero es quedarme en la cama y no ir a trabajar\u00bb, respondi\u00f3.<\/p>\n

Shizam, si yo tuviera que hacer se\u00f1ales para las plazas de aparcamiento, quiz\u00e1 pensar\u00eda lo mismo. Pero por lo que dec\u00eda esta mujer, parec\u00eda que ese diagn\u00f3stico era una carga que tendr\u00eda que arrastrar consigo para siempre. La psic\u00f3loga cl\u00ednica de la Universidad del Sur de California, Darby Saxbe , en<\/a> que las etiquetas de las enfermedades mentales se han \u00abconvertido en un marcador de identidad que hace que las personas se sientan especiales y \u00fanicas… dici\u00e9ndoles que esto es lo que son y lo que ser\u00e1n en el futuro\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

El psiquiatra Laurent Mottron se quej\u00f3 en 2023 de que la \u00faltima versi\u00f3n del DSM \u00abest\u00e1 llena de definiciones vagas y triviales y de un lenguaje ambiguo que hace que m\u00e1s personas entren en diversas categor\u00edas de anormalidad\u00bb. Steven E. Hyman \u2014antiguo director del Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental\u2014 advirti\u00f3 en 2013 que los autores del DSM<\/p>\n

…eligieron un modelo en el que todas las enfermedades psiqui\u00e1tricas se representaban como categor\u00edas discontinuas con respecto a lo \u00abnormal\u00bb. Pero esto es totalmente err\u00f3neo, de una forma que ellos no podr\u00edan haber imaginado. As\u00ed que, de hecho, lo que crearon fue una aut\u00e9ntica pesadilla cient\u00edfica. Muchas personas a las que se les pone un diagn\u00f3stico reciben cinco diagn\u00f3sticos, pero no padecen cinco enfermedades, sino que tienen una \u00fanica afecci\u00f3n subyacente.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Una avalancha de nuevas enfermedades mentales est\u00e1 contribuyendo a paralizar a toda una generaci\u00f3n joven.\u00a0<\/strong>El psiquiatra h\u00fangaro-americano Thomas Szasz advirti\u00f3 en el siglo pasado: \u00abLos psiquiatras inventan diagn\u00f3sticos mentales del mismo modo que el Vaticano canoniza a los santos\u00bb. El New York Times\u00a0<\/em>ha puesto recientemente de relieve la \u00abinflaci\u00f3n de la prevalencia\u00bb psiqui\u00e1trica: un enorme aumento de los casos de enfermedades mentales notificados entre los adolescentes, debido a que se les anima a considerar s\u00edntomas normales como enfermedades graves que requieren intervenci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Los psiquiatras han ayudado a algunas personas a comprenderse mejor a s\u00ed mismas y a afrontar con mayor destreza la realidad cotidiana. Sin embargo, seg\u00fan el Dr. Allen Frances, las enfermedades mentales ficticias han convertido a millones de americanos sanos en \u00abpacientes mentales\u00bb. Esa debacle explica por qu\u00e9 Thomas Szasz luch\u00f3 contra el \u00abEstado terap\u00e9utico\u00bb y la \u00abmedicalizaci\u00f3n de la vida cotidiana\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Las recetas de antidepresivos para americanos de entre 12 y 25 a\u00f1os se dispararon un 66 % entre 2016 y 2022. Aproximadamente uno de cada seis adultos en Am\u00e9rica toma actualmente medicamentos para la depresi\u00f3n o la ansiedad. El secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lament\u00f3 recientemente que los antidepresivos sean m\u00e1s adictivos que la hero\u00edna.<\/p>\n

La Ley de Am\u00e9rica con Discapacidades puede convertir las enfermedades mentales en un programa de prestaciones. Las personas con un diagn\u00f3stico de enfermedad mental adquieren el derecho a exigir \u00abadaptaciones razonables\u00bb a los empleadores, centros educativos y otras entidades. Incluso antes de la pandemia, hasta un 25 % de los estudiantes de las mejores universidades estaban \u00abclasificados como discapacitados, en gran parte debido a problemas de salud mental como la depresi\u00f3n o la ansiedad, lo que les daba derecho a una gama cada vez m\u00e1s amplia de adaptaciones especiales, como m\u00e1s tiempo para realizar los ex\u00e1menes\u00bb, inform\u00f3 el Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>en 2018. Un an\u00e1lisis de la Universidad de Boston realizado en 2022 entre estudiantes de casi 400 campus revel\u00f3 que \u00abel 60 % de los encuestados cumpl\u00eda los criterios de calificaci\u00f3n para uno o m\u00e1s problemas de salud mental\u00bb, lo que supone un aumento de casi el 50 % con respecto a 2013\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Enga\u00f1ar a la gente con diagn\u00f3sticos falsos y antidepresivos ya ha arruinado demasiadas vidas americanas. Repartir millones m\u00e1s de \u00abcorazones p\u00farpuras\u00bb psiqui\u00e1tricos no har\u00e1 que esta naci\u00f3n sea m\u00e1s feliz ni m\u00e1s sensata.<\/p>\n

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