Inventor of ADHD confessed: ”ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”

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publicerad 17 maj 2013
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Leon Eisenberg  the “scientific father of ADHD” said at the age of 87, seven months before his death in his last interview: ”ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”.

Text: Moritz Nestor, 2013, Source and photo: World Public Union

Leon Eisenberg, ADHDThe alarmed critics of the Ritalin disaster are now getting support from an entirely different side. The German weekly Der Spiegel quoted in its cover story on 2 February 2012 the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian immigrants, who was the “scientific father of ADHD” and who said at the age of 87, seven months before his death in his last interview: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease”.

Since 1968, however, some 40 years, Leon Eisenberg’s “disease” haunted the diagnostic and statistical manuals, first as “hyperkinetic reaction of childhood”, now called “ADHD”. The use of ADHD medications in Germany rose in only eighteen years from 34 kg (in 1993) to a record of no less than 1760 kg (in 2011) – which is a 51-fold increase in sales! In the United States every tenth boy among ten year-olds already swallows an ADHD medication on a daily basis. With an increasing tendency.

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