http://psychrights.org/Articles/DHealy2007PediatricBipolarDisorderJRS419.pdfPediatric
bipolar disorder: An object of study in the creation of anillness, by David
Healy and Joanna Le Noury, International Journal of Risk &Safety in
Medicine, 19 (2007) 209-221.As outlined above, a number of forces appear
to have swept aside traditionalacademic skepticism with the result that an
increasing number of childrenand infants are being put on cocktails of
potent drugs without any evidenceof benefit..........If the process
outlined here was one that could reasonably beexpected to lead to benefits
it could regarded as therapeutic. But giventhat there is no evidence for
benefit and abundant prima facie evidence thatgiving the drugs in question
to vulnerable subjects in such quantitiescannot but produce consequent
difficulties for many of these minors, one hasto wonder whether we are not
witnessing instead a variation on Munchausen'ssyndrome, where some
significant other wants the individual to be ill andthese significant
others derive some gain from these proxy illnesses.
