Primum Nocere (First to Harm) Countertransference and Poisonous Pedagogy: A Hypothesis to Explain Why Psychiatrists Promote Dangerous, Harmful, and Ineffectual Neuroleptic Drugs

Abstract

This article will briefly review the case that multigenerations of neuroleptic (NL) drugs are dangerous: causing brain damage, shortening life span, disrupting the endocrine system, interfering with cognitive function, and are half as likely to have a positive long-term outcome as are nonmedical approaches. Given this dismal record, the writer will address the question of why then are they the first line of treatment for seriously disturbed patients? This article will explore how a corrupt and corrupting system of pharmaceutical science and psychiatric power feeds the insecurities of psychotherapists who treat these patients. The author posits the theory that countertransferential phenomena, as elaborated by (Searles, 1979; Winnicott, 1949; and Miller, 1980) (hate, fear, guilt, powerlessness, inability to comfort, capitulation to manipulation, and rationalizations that delusions are biological rather than psychological phenomena), prevent the therapist from properly doing his job. This article will offer a working definition of acute psychosis as unexplored eccentric thinking that will support nonpharmacological psychotherapeutic intervention and distinguish between enlightened and unenlightened biological psychiatry.