Iatrogenic helplessness

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDICATION SPELLBINDING AND IATROGENIC HELPLESSNESS AND DENIAL... 

The concept of medication spellbinding expands or elaborates on the concept of iatrogenic helplessness and denial. It specifically observes that... 

Notice the nonspecific nature of these effects. Not only symptoms such as anxiety, but also desires and preferences, are aborted or buried beneath indifference or apathy. As Delay and Deniker put it, there is an apparent indifference or the slowing of responses to external stimuli and the diminution of initiative and anxiety (Jarvik, 1970). Once again, this is iatrogenic helplessness and denial with spellbinding effects. 

Akathisia can cause extreme iatrogenic helplessness and denial and, ultimately, a dangerous degree of medication spellbinding. 

The mutual denial of TD by physician and patient is an aspect of iatrogenic helplessness and denial—the use of brain-disabling treatments in psychiatry to enforce the patient s denial of both his or her original personal problems as well as the iatrogenic brain dysfunction and damage (chapter 1). 

Nondominant shock starkly illustrates the principle of iatrogenic helplessness and denial The doctor damages the brain in such a way as to confound the patient s ability to perceive the resulting dysfunction. 

Breggin, P. (1983a). Iatrogenic helplessness in authoritarian psychiatry. In R. F. Morgan (Ed.), The iatrogenics handbook. Toronto IPI. 

All of the neuroleptics are profoundly medication spellbinding (chapter 1), rendering the user unable to perceive the damage being done to his or her brain, mind, and body. Because of this, the neuroleptics readily lend themselves to the creation of iatrogenic denial and helplessness, in which the doctor uses drug-induced brain damage and dysfunction to produce a more docile, less troublesome patient. 

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