XPost: soc.culture.african.american, soc.culture.british, sci.psychology   
   XPost: alt.psychology   
   From: none@none.none   
      
   "Pat" wrote:   
   >   
   >On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:20:37 GMT, Element 115    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>Martin.Looter.Kingfish@Commie.Whoremonger.Plagiarists.edu wrote...   
   >>> Researchers carrying out the largest   
   >>> ever  study  of  psychosis  tested  the   
   >>> claim that psychiatrists were discrim-   
   >>> inating against black patients. They   
   >>> found that, even when the ethnicity of   
   >>> the patient was unknown, psychosis   
   >>> was still diagnosed nine times more   
   >>> often in black people: almost exactly   
   >>> the same rate as their presence within   
   >>> mental health services.   
   >>>   
   >>> The study has, according to Professor   
   >>> Robin  Murray  from  the  Institute,   
   >>> shown that misdiagnosis, supposedly   
   >>> resulting  from  ‘institutionalised   
   >>> racism’, is a myth. On the contrary,   
   >>> “psychiatrists in the UK are less likely   
   >>> to diagnose psychosis in somebody   
   >>> who  is  black  than  white  with  the   
   >>> same symptoms”.   
   >>   
   >>Has anyone considered that if the opposite were true - that UK blacks were   
   >>less likely to be diagnosed with psychosis than UK whites - that they   
   >>would be complaining about the failure to detect serious but treatable   
   >>mental disorders in black people and that the result was negligence on the   
   >>part of psychiatrists who obviously didn't care enough about their black   
   >>patients to pay enough attention to notice their psychotic behavior?   
   >>   
   >>Still, the first paragraph quoted above makes me wonder how they did a   
   >>comparison to a group of patients whose ethnicity was unknown to the   
   >>psychiatrists who diagnosed them as psychotic.  Is it common practice in   
   >>the UK for psychiatrists and other doctors to evaluate and treat patients   
   >>without actually seeing them in person?  Even in the worst U.S. HMOs from   
   >>hell the patient is still seen by a semi-human nurse practitioner, and   
   >>even if he/she doesn't record the patient's race in his file, it still is   
   >>pretty obvious from both name and appearance.   
   >   
   >Check out the listing for Psychiatry: Creating Racism   
   >   
   >It goes alot deeper than just "mis-diagnosing".   
   >   
   >From the Documentation:   
   >   
   >In Britain, black men are 10 times more likely than white men to be   
   >diagnosed as "schizophrenic," and more likely to be prescribed and   
   >given higher doses of powerful psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs.   
   >   
   >They are also more likely to receive electroshock treatment (over 400   
   >volts of electricity sent searing through the brain to control   
   >or alter a person’s behavior) and to be subjected to physical and   
   >chemical restraints.   
   >   
   >The sources for these statistics are in the Booklet.   
   >   
   >http://stores.ebay.com/Theta-Works?refid=store   
   >   
   >Pat   
   >   
      
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