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Profits, Power and Control
But face it, there is no profit in sane, happy responsible people. The last thing they seem to want is for anyone to have a tool they can use themselves to better their own mind, improve their own life, and create a sane society. Just as all priests never have wanted people figuring out a direct connection to God (thereby putting them out of business), so neither do the psychiatrists want anyone to have a self-applicable solution to the problems of their own mind and life. If that were possible they would very much become obsolete. Psychiatry really does function as the modern "religion" and the psychiatrists are the High Priests. They wave their hand and declare the heretics - as schizophrenics, psychotics, manic-depressives or ADHDs, and similarly can enforce duress and torture in the from of involuntary commitment, lobotomies, shock treatments and drugs. Just like the priests they will do anything to maintain their position of authority and control over everyone else. And also, just like the Egyptian or medieval priest, their power ultimately rests upon a fabricated belief system, which is based upon very little fact, but in which they have totally convinced the public.
For the structure of psychiatry to exist it is necessary to maintain the charade that they are the "experts", and the "mind is extremely complicated". The moment a sufficient number of people begin to question and clearly see the falsity of their approach, theories, and methods, the entire foundation upon which it is built would collapse. They will fight tooth and nail, using every argument and rationale available, to prevent this from happening. They have much help in this from the drug companies, "professional" societies, various psychiatric and psychological associations, major educational institutions and medical schools (which receive large funding from the same interests), and even government organizations such as the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and CIA.
Psychiatry's Barbaric History
This is the ideological and methodological route of psychiatry. As a "profession" this is what they did. What they do today is a natural and complete outgrowth of the early dehumanizing and barbaric practices.
You can put a psychiatrist through college, put a suit on him, and teach him to act polite at dinner parties, but he is and always has been a barbaric criminal reveling in the control and harm he exerts on his fellow human beings.
Explain it away however you like, but this is the bare fact of the matter. Nazi SS officers were also probably very polite at parties and kind to other people. They probably even told hilarious jokes - on the way to turning on the gas in the gas chambers. Not surprisingly, psychiatry had much to do with Nazi practices of experimentation and genocide.
Psychiatrists also routinely, year after year, make up the lower third of the graduating class of any college or medical school. They couldn't cut it with the full medical curriculum. Simply, they are the dumbest. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Also, intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with humanity, decency or compassion. Highly intelligent people can be complete brutes and uneducated people can be extremely decent. Don't make the mistake of assuming "science" or apparent intelligence implies decency. It never has and sadly, it probably never will.
One needs to cut through all the years of miseducation and PR of the psychiatric industry and drug companies to get an actual "feel" for what is happening here. It is legalized barbarism parading as "modern science" and "innovative medical techniques". It's a multi-million dollar industry. A lot of money is being made on the pain, suffering and ultimate harm of the general public subjected to their erroneous ideas and practices.
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This is the beginning:
The Evolution of Psychiatry
by Gene Zimmer
To arrive at a true understanding of what psychiatry is one needs to understand its methods and historically how these methods evolved. The word "evolution" often implies a process leading to and arriving at "higher", "advanced" or "improved" conditions, but this is not at all true when dealing with psychiatry. The purpose here is to closely look at the gradual development of the theories and methods of psychiatry.
The old psychiatric institutions at the turn of the century (insane asylums) give us the earliest look at psychiatry's barbaric practices. These institutions were basically prisons where the "insane" were kept (or anyone who a "certified" doctor would label as "insane"). Holes were drilled in the heads of patients to relieve "brain pressure", but before that it was done by the same practitioners to "exorcise demons". Cages were installed on the heads of patients. Straight jackets, restraining tables, and shackles were common. Common therapies were "hosing down" the patients and spinning them round and round on a chair. In an attempt to rearrange their bad brain atoms? While psychiatry continued to develop newer methods, these were always oppressive and based on nothing even remotely approaching any legitimate concept of "science".
The methods employed have always and ONLY involved FORCE applied to the human being to alter behavior. Electric shock was one of their first "major advances" in dealing with psychotics and schizophrenics. Notice psychiatry has NEVER attempted to address the mind or life of the person with an aim towards helping them become more sane, responsible, productive, self-determined and happy. This has absolutely nothing to do with their approach and never has. Studying the history of psychiatry makes this very obvious. The notion of "help" and "curing" is a recent addition that has been tacked onto the subject in an attempt to gain acceptance, respectability and above all financial success - psychiatry is basically a "business" venture.
ECT - Electric Shock
ECT was "discovered" when Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrist, visited a Rome slaughterhouse to see what could be learned from the method that was employed to butcher hogs. In Cerletti's own words, "As soon as the hogs were clamped by the [electric] tongs, they fell unconscious, stiffened, then after a few seconds they were shaken by convulsions.... During this period of unconsciousness (epileptic coma), the butcher stabbed and bled the animals without difficulty....
"At this point I felt we could venture to experiment on man, and I instructed my assistants to be on the alert for the selection of a suitable subject."
Cerletti's first victim was provided by the local police - a man described by Cerletti as "lucid and well-oriented." After surviving the first blast without losing consciousness, the victim overheard Cerletti discussing a second application with a higher voltage. He begged Cerletti, "Non una seconda! Mortifierel" ("Not another one! It will kill me!")
Ignoring the objections of his assistants, Cerletti increased the voltage and duration and fired again. With the "successful" electrically induced convulsion of his victim, Ugo Cerletti brought about the application of hog-slaughtering skills to humans, creating one of the most brutal techniques of psychiatry.
The field of psychiatry, similar to modern psychology, observes animal reactions and applies them to people. First, this is absurd, unless you believe yourself to be an animal. Yes, we each have a body that is "animal" in nature, but additionally, we have a quite different aspect - consciousness. There is no animal anywhere, which has human thought, creative imagination, will, intention or personal responsibility. These "human" qualities are what distinguish us from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a MAJOR difference. This difference has been very much ignored and forgotten by "modern" psychiatric and psychological theories and practices. These two subjects view you completely as a biochemical "beast" subject to genetic, physiological and environmental influences alone. YOU, the person, have been very much relegated to a level of no importance. This should scare any sensible person, because every decent thing has ONLY been the result of individual creative people using their minds, imagination, humanity and personal responsibility. Animals never have and never will exhibit these qualities. Psychiatry's methods are removing these qualities from the equation of Man and his civilizations. This can never have positive results. Worse, psychiatric methods, by their very nature, harm and inhibit these basic human mental functions and qualities.
With ECT, what psychiatry did was observe PIG SLAUGHTERING. Ugo went to a slaughterhouse to "see what he could learn". Why? How? What does slaughtering pigs have to do with human behavior or the human mind? What depraved stream of logic has this "make sense"? This was the start of the "therapy" known as ECT. This, in itself, should clearly display the absurdity of psychiatric methods. Psychiatry is the originator of the "straight jacket" and "physical restraints". The nature of the treatments historically are rooted in force exerted on an individual to inhibit unwanted behaviors and actions. The key method used is always FORCE. To reiterate, there has never been any attempt by psychiatry to address and deal with the understanding, reason, viewpoint, ideas, responsibility - or mind - of the person.
ECT replaced physical force with electrical force. But it's basically, in effect, the same thing. Overwhelm the person with enough force and his thoughts, memories and emotions get rattled enough that he undergoes a change. To assume there is some "cure" or "healing" process involved is pure stupidity. The psychiatric field has spent much time and money trying to explain, rationalize and justify their barbaric methods. They call this "research", but no verifiable chemical, electrical or biophysical "healing" has ever been detected or observed. In fact, the only definite observable result of ECT has been brain dysfunction, brain damage and memory loss, with minor to severe effects on the patient's sense of self and their life. The simple truth is that it is the "damage" that causes the changes that are called the "cure". Without the brain dysfunction or damage, no change would occur. The damage is the intentional result because it alone causes the change in the person.
Torture and brain washing techniques, researched and practiced by psychiatrists in most totalitarian regimes, involve the same methodology. Overwhelm the person with physical abuse, pain, lack of sleep, and degradation and sure enough a change in personality results. That's fine for oppressive governments and secret police, but to introduce these methods as "science" and "mental healing" in civilized societies is ridiculous. But that's exactly what has been done, and the magnitude of ridiculousness hasn't prevented mammoth funding and the ultimate acceptance of these practices by "trained professionals" and the general public. In fact, it is primarily due to the large amount of funding (by the major drug companies and governments) that psychiatry arrived at its current level of acceptance.
The psychiatric view on ECT was never to "help" the patient. It wasn't to help them deal with their problems or feel better. It was used for years to control extreme behavior. Understand this. It has always been used to control behavior, primarily behavior that others find objectionable. That is why psychiatry is the darling of governments. Governments also love to control behavior. The concept of "mental health" came much later and was tacked onto the subject as part of a PR campaign to reduce their barbaric image with the public. This is only a facade, and they do not concern themselves at all with "health" of any kind. They are what they have always been - an oppressive practice utilizing force to alter behavior.
You could just as well whack a patient in the head with a baseball bat until they were shaken up enough to alter their behavior. There is much evidence that the trauma of ECT is quite similar to that of head injury and it is this damage alone that causes the results. Any change or apparent "cure" is the result of damage to the brain. Destruction of brain cells, harm to brain blood vessels, and altered EEG readings are common with ECT.
At some point the psychiatrist observed some patient's commenting that their "depression" or "mania" wasn't as bad or had gone away. Their memories and personality were also often drastically altered, but hey, it was "working". Why don't we try drowning? Drown a person until the point of death, resuscitate them, and observe the changes. I would bet there would be changes. Some of the changes might even appear "desirable". Or how about torturing a person until their entire personality "falls apart", and then "rebuild it" from scratch. The person might say they "feel better". Actually, psychiatrists have already done this. They applied brainwashing and torture techniques in an attempt to regain family members who had become involved in "religious groups" ("cults" to them), which the family members didn't like - this is commonly known as deprogramming. It's brutal. It's forceful. It never appeals to the viewpoint of the person themselves. It is behavioral modification per the requests of others (the family). This is another example of psychiatry using force to exact compliance to the wishes of another regarding how they feel the person should behave.
This has always been the modus operandi of psychiatry - apply force to alter behavior according to someone's idea of what "correct behavior" is. They have tried to slither away from this perception of themselves by concentrating on "mental illnesses" and "disorders". They attempt to make it seem they are concerned with the "individual person" and their "health". This is more charade because their methods remain exactly the same, no matter what they say and promote.
The experimenting "scientific" psychiatrist then continued his "research" by trying different types of shocking, with different levels or current, voltage, and electrodes. Maybe they'll find the "perfect treatment", or so they say. What they have been doing, and continue to do on the public is "human experimentation". They will use arguments such as, "we must forget about all archaic moral concerns and freely test on humans if we are ever to truly understand what we are and how we work". This is the same logic used by Nazi medical experimenters like the butcher Mengele. It always leads to the same degraded and barbaric place. And it always parades itself as "modern", "advanced", "scientific" and "highly intelligent". It is none of these. (See The Errors of Modern Science and the Human Mind.)
Never at any point during the evolution of ECT has there been the slightest knowledge of how or why ECT does what it does. There are many theories and beliefs, all of which are false, and the simple truth is that it overwhelms the patient with electrical energy, jumbles his mind and emotions, and alters one's personality (due in large part to the brain damage). In this degraded society, misled and miseducated by large medical and financial interests, these solutions make "sense". They make sense the same way burning witches at the stake made sense to religious intolerants and brain washing and torture made sense to Chinese Communists.
Modern psychology has failed completely to solve the problems of the mind. Following this failure, it chose to neglect and ignore the mind as a factor in its investigation, theories and practices. Thought, will, imagination, desire, attention, intention, and personal responsibility and control are part of the mind, and these have all been neglected and finally discarded in modern psychology's and psychiatry's absurd development. What is left is controlling behavior through force. It is questionable whether these subjects honestly or seriously ever attempted to research the mind and come up with workable solutions, because once large financial interests entered the scene in the early part of the century the direction of all research was aimed only at purely biophysical theories and methods. There was no profit in understanding and helping the mind directly. There was and is tremendous profits in drugs. This has had disastrous results to Man and society.
That these forceful methods sometimes result in an "improved" condition, even to the patient subjectively implies nothing. Again, if you hit 20 people in the head with baseball bats, most likely a few would believe themselves to be "improved" afterwards. But where's the "therapy"? Where's the "cure"? And, sadly, there are always harmful side-effects with their methods.
Why is it they only concentrate on methods that apply force? They could just as well do extensive testing with 1) meditation, 2) visualization techniques, 3) daily walks in the park or country, 4) daily singing, 5) purposeful laughing, or 6) education into one's mind with the idea of accepting and taking personal responsibility for it.. They could do controlled studies, monitor the results, and see what changes occur. There would be obvious positive changes. Yes, it's hard to monitor what people do with their minds and whether they are applying the techniques properly, but it could be figured out. But they haven't and never will try anything like this. The field is 100% biased for a biomedical approach to everything. Why? Because the major drug companies and affiliated universities and colleges support and indoctrinate ONLY in this direction. It's not honest, open-minded research. It's restrictive research designed to only guarantee profits. Psychiatry is a part of the field of medicine, and modern medicine teaches and practices almost entirely in the direction of drugs and addressing only symptoms (not underlying causes of any illness or problem).
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