Dr. Stanley Goldstein - Author and Psychologist

A Wall Street Journal article ('A Scientist's Final Quest Is to Find New Schizophrenia Drugs. Will He Live to See Them?' Nov. 26, 2024) aroused several thoughts - Schizophrenia is vastly misdiagnosed particularly amongst those with substance abuse problems. Knowledge of child psychological development and developmental psychopathology is gravely lacking among professionals. Psychotropic drugs produce severe side effects, which are termed "improvement," and can be hard to stop. Closing of the state psychiatric hospitals, which despite their inadequacies were safe, had its promised savings go into state general coffers and not the out-patient services promised. Another disastrous element is the FDA's belief and wasted billions in drug treatments, worthless genetic research, and electrical gadgets for basically psychological disturbances. The genesis of schizophrenia in terms of faulty early life ego development has been understood for decades--by those who want to know!