Comments on: Update on Meah Shearim Mom

By: por

por — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:37:53 +0000

According to excerpts from Dr. Weil’s letter published on Hadrei Hareidim, he writes that apart from the one sentence about not having the tools to evaluate her “danger”, he holds by everything else he wrote in the original letter. He is quoted as writing in the letter: “The results of the examinations I conducted on her do not justify any suspicion that a diagnosis of Munchausen’s syndrom is an appropriate diagnosis. I am amazed at how a team of pediatricians could arrive at such a diagnosis for an adult woman without the involvement of a specialist who examined her. Conclusion: Mrs. Y.M. does not have a psychiatric disease and she is psychiatrically normal, like all the mothers in her community. I did not find any mental deficiency and did not find anything to support a diagnosis of Munchausen. In my professional estimation the woman I examined may continue to perform her parenting functions with regard to all her children without danger.”

In his “retraction” he states he still holds with everything else he wrote in the original letter except for the last sentence, which he now feels that he does not have the tools to make any determination of any kind, either positive or negative. This means that he still holds that the woman is psychiatrically healthy and that a diagnosis of Manchausen’s syndrome is not justified. And seemingly even this weak “retraction” was done only in response to intense pressure on him.

By: veryinteresting

veryinteresting — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:26:24 +0000

#3, Psychiatry is a science, as well. Physiology of the brain is part of the practice of psychiatry. Nonetheless, it is filled with fakes, phonies, frauds, and drug pushers.

By: deepthinker

deepthinker — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:54:32 +0000

Psychiatry is not a science. It is an art, with many fakes, phonies, and frauds.

The “Diagnosis” of Munchkin’s Disease (MunchHausen?) is an egregious example of Psychiatric fraud, perfectly suited to the purpose of covering-up malpractice and experimentation on a helpless child.

By: msseeker

msseeker — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:30:32 +0000

Now who still believes them? Only the worst anti-chareidim.

By: lakwoodr

lakwoodr — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:55:40 +0000

is there any mental health proffesional on YW that can tell us if this is a normal thing to happen? Do psycaitrists often “recant” an evaluation like that? Or does this smell a bit fishy?