Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims, 2001
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Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims, 2001 Click here: Buy this book "Essential reading for mental health patients and their families." |
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Dr. Tana Dineen Dr. Dineen is a licensed psychologist Canada. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree (1969) from McGill University, and a Masters (1971) and Doctoral Degree (1975) from the University of Saskatchewan. She is a Full Member of the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. For four years, starting in 1977, she worked as Treatment Director of a large psychiatric facility, establishing specialized programs, including an assessment ward for the investigation of complex diagnostic questions and an intensive treatment ward for young schizophrenics, which won an American Psychiatric Association prize for innovative programming |
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About the book:
- "When I first sat down to write Manufacturing victims, it was with a sense of outrage; the book was intended to give meat for arguments and to inspire social action." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 283)
- "When Manufacturing Victims was first released in 1996, it drew volatile reactions from within the Psychology industry. It was attacked as "a conspiracy book" and called "the Ripley's Believe It Or Not of Psychology." Colleagues who had neither met me nor read the book offered their opinions, diagnosing me as suffering from some treatable malady such as "burnout" or "depression." One psychologist, after watching an interview of me on national television, lodged a formal complaint with my licensing board that led to an investigation in the name of "protecting the television watching public." After eighteen months, the board finally acknowledged my charter right to speak and my role as "a social critic," and dismissed the complaint. ... So, I find myself in the role of renegade, openly challenging the authority of my profession. Throughout this book, I have made it clear that tragedies can leave scars and that suffering can be genuine. But I have pointed out that, as with anything that is genuine, from silk to pearls to paintings, there is always the copy, the synthetic and the counterfeit, the product made to look like the real thing just as there are real victims, so too are there fabricated victims, who are, by and large, the products of the Psychology Industry." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 268)
- "I am reminded of Sheldon Kopp's story of the "Just Man who went to Sodom, hoping to save its people from sin and punishment. He cried out to them, preaching in the streets, urging them to change their ways. No one listened, no one responded, and yet he went on shouting his message of warning, his promise of Redemption. Then one day a child stopped him, asking why he went on crying out when there was no hope of being heard. And the Just Man answered: 'When I first came I shouted my message, hoping to change these men. Now I know that I am helpless to change them. If I continue to cry out today, it is only in hope that I can prevent them from changing me." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 283)
- "If these shocking presumptions were not an actual description of the current state of the Psychology industry, they might be laughable. But regrettably, these simplistic theories are widely applied and widely accepted in a society that naively trusts psychologists to be scientific and objective, optimistic and positive, and caring and other-oriented." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 266)
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