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by Dr Martin Whitely
Encouraged by its Managing Director Mark Scott, the ABC has promoted Professors Patrick McGorry and Ian Hickie as independent mental health experts and unquestioningly backed their plans for reforming mental health. However both have significant ties to the pharmaceutical industry[1] and there has been prominent international criticism of their methods – and in Hickie’s case his integrity – which has been substantially ignored by the ABC.
Tags: ABC, ABC bias, Australia' mental health system, disease mongering, Ian Hickie, Mark Scott, Mental As, Patrick McGorry
“Personalities, rhetoric and charisma are driving the direction of mental health rather than science and evidence.” (Martin Whitely MLA, Parliament of Western Australia, 25 September 2012)
Related Media
Sue Dunlevy, News Limited Sunday papers, 7 October 2012, Doubts cast on youth mental health program. Available at http://www.news.com.au/national/doubts-cast-on-youth-mental-health-program/story-fndo4eg9-1226489760605
Also see Patrick McGorry’s ‘Ultra High Risk of Psychosis’ training DVD fails the common sense test http://speedupsitstill.com/patrick-mcgorrys-ultra-high-risk-psychosis-theory-fails-common-sense-test
MARTIN WHITELY (Trancript of speech in the Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia, 25 September 2012): I want to use this opportunity to talk about some very serious concerns I have about the direction of the mental health policy in Australia. My basic contention is that personalities, rhetoric and charisma are driving the direction of mental health rather than science and evidence.
Tags: Allen Frances, Andrew Amos, attenuated psychosis syndrome, Cochrane collaboration, David Cappo, David Castle, disease mongering, DSM5, Early intervention, EPPIC, George Patton, Ian Hickie, Jon Jureidini, Mark Butler, Martin Whitely, NEURAPRO-Q trial, Orygen Youth Health, Patrick McGorry, Preventative Psychiatry, Psychosis Risk Syndrome, ultra-high risk of psychosis, Vaughan Carr
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