The True Nature of Psychiatry by Steven Ferry

[Guest guest]

Fifth Cavalry or Fifth Column?

Examining Psychiatry’s Role in Our Lives

by Steven

Ferry

 

The many schools of psychiatry,

psychology and psychoanalysis (psychs) have stated over and over in many

different ways over the decades that they are sciences of the mind. Based on

this positioning, the average citizen and our great governments consider these

“doctors of the mind” to be the experts on the mind, and to be able to improve

the mental state of individuals.

 

So it is with some surprise that

investigations (specifics given below) show that genocide by the Nazis in

Europe, by the Serb leadership in Bosnia and Kosovo; suicidal terrorists;

shooting rampages in our schools; spiraling crime rates and an increasingly

amoral and dysfunctional society all have these disciplines as common

denominators. Furthermore, it appears these same people have managed to kill

twice as many Americans under their direct care between 1950 and 1990 alone as

have died in all the wars the United States ever engaged in.

 

So how does one reconcile a

science for improving mental states with wholesale death and societal decay?

 

Psychs have explained away their

crimes and made them invisible to the average citizen and even governments by

engaging in countless activities that are too incredible to be believed. Anyone

pointing out that this particular emperor is wearing no clothes finds his words

falling on deaf ears because patently nothing could be so off base and yet

still remain in a position of authority today—so obviously the whistleblower

must be some wild-eyed fanatic, possibly even a psychiatric patient!

 

Explaining his excesses, Adolph

Hitler, who was eagerly endorsed by psychs in Germany and the United States, once

boasted that the more outrageous the deed, the less people would want or be

able to believe it. We are not, today, devastated by economic collapse as the

Germans were in 1933; we do not live in a police state where all the media is

controlled by the government. Most of us are blessed with a sufficiently high

IQ not to fall for the kind of diatribes expressed by Neo-Nazis and similar

fanatical groups today. So we can surely think for ourselves and see when the

wool has been pulled over our eyes. But supposing the data we have been fed as

reasonable, and which we use to reach our conclusions, is actually flawed?

Would we then necessarily be able to recognize what may be the greatest hoax in

the last eight hundred years?

 

Psychs (650,000 of them around

the world) have inserted themselves into almost every facet of our lives, changing

the way we think and view our selves and life as a whole. They have used

billions upon billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars to finance their

activities. They use their own ineffectiveness in bringing about sanity and

improved mental states as evidence that more government allocations are

required to combat “the problem,” which itself didn’t exist until psychs

materialized two centuries ago and stated there was a problem. Their actions

have resulted in multiple real problems in society, as the following article

should make clear.

 

How many failed launches would

the government and taxpayers allow before they told NASA that enough was

enough? Yet psychs have had nothing but failed launches since they started.

Before anyone rejects this notion as too extreme, let’s hypothesize that psychs

had

taken a wrong turn right from the get-go? Supposing man isn’t just an animal

that can be cured of ills with chemicals and Pavlovian coercions? Wouldn’t that

be something to consider, bearing in mind how deeply these practitioners have

inserted their thinking into our lives. It might explain why psychs are hard

put to achieve the improvements in man’s condition that one would expect from a

science of the mind and why everywhere we turn, we are confronted by reportedly

unsolvable problems in society (all of which psychs have been paid big bucks to

fix).

 

As you consider the information

that follows, keep in mind the words of Schopenhauer, the Nineteenth Century German philosopher:

“All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is

violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Maybe by the end of this article, you

can skip straight to the third stage.

 

A Pretend Science

From the moment Wilhelm Wundt, a

Marxist professor of psychology at Leipzig University, Germany, declared the

study of the spirit (psyche-ology) a futile endeavor in 1879, the rest of the

world has been led to believe by psychs that man was no more than an animal

responding to stimuli from the environment—in other words, a victim. Although

it shocked the religious majority at the time, which believed that man had a

spiritual dimension and was responsible for his own actions, the idea was far

from new. Materialism had been on the rise for two centuries. A pivotal change

occurred in 1865 when a Swiss psychiatrist, Wilhelm Griesinger, asserted that,

because most nerve cells were in the brain, all mental problems must be brain

problems. In other words, the mind was the brain and the software was really

hardware.

It helps to understand other

influences at work at the time “experimental psychology” was born. Most

significant was Nietzsche, an influential German philosopher, who was busy

proclaiming that God was dead and the age of nihilism had begun (nihilism, a rejection

of morality and religion, the belief that life is pointless and human values

are worthless. This was followed by a political movement in late 19th-century

Russia that espoused terrorism and assassination, and ultimately led to

Communism in that country).

 

The concept of a field of study

(psyche-ology) that denies the validity of the very field itself, is a

challenging position to hold, akin to an auto mechanic denying the existence of

the combustion engine. It is certainly an interesting approach to formulating a

science. The nebulous nature of things spiritual and mental, however, lends

itself to a trusting acceptance of any who would stand and say, “I am an

Authority.”

 

Thus it was that Wundt’s

experimental psychology, followed in the late 1890s by Sigmund Freud’s

psychoanalysis, began a largely unchallenged “science” that has moved into

every facet of our society today. Freud, whose claims that man’s behavior was

the result of sexual repressions and that man’s neuroses were caused by his

morale codes, was instrumental in popularizing and forwarding the new

“science,” as he called it. He also rejected religion as “obsolete,” a

collection of superstitions and the “universal obsession neurosis.”

Unfortunately, he neither conducted experiments nor published his findings, two

critical requirements in any science.

 

Freud did publish six case

histories during his fifty-six years of psychoanalyzing, all of which had

failed to make any real improvement (even though he claimed five had). The

cocaine that he sniffed, injected and smoked could have influenced Freud’s

thought processes. He claimed cocaine cured his depression and he promoted its

benefits to others. Freud suffered from psychosomatic illnesses and was

convinced his competitors meant to harm him. His theories (many of which he

lifted from others without credit) were so complex that his followers relied

upon him for interpretation. Anyone asking for proof of his theories he

dismissed as psychologically impaired for “resisting” his ideas, yet Freud himself

expressed doubts that psychoanalysis worked in his paper entitled Analysis, Terminable and Interminable. Incidentally, eight of his associates killed themselves.

Hailed as the grandfather of psychology, Freud continues to be a model for

psychs today.

 

Whatever Freud was doing, it was

not a science. Physics is a science. There is only one theory of gravity, for

instance, amply demonstrated in fact and with no dissenting opinions. Today,

the “science” of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis has grown into no

less than two hundred and fifty different theories about the mind, and none

able to cure anything according to those practitioners willing to be honest.

What a mess our cars would be in if the million mechanics around the country

each had a differing opinion about how to fix a blown gasket. And if the

National Association of Mechanics claimed blown gaskets were not susceptible to

any remedies, but that another government grant of $50 billion was vital for

research purposes, if cars were to continue on the road.

 

Assuming, however, that the good

German professors had chanced upon the real nature of man—an animal without

spirit, in whose brain resided the entire capabilities of the mind—then over a

century of hard work by hundreds of thousands of psychs should have wrought

some significant improvement in man’s mental health and general condition.

 

Strange, therefore, that psychs

are claiming that 48% of people today between the ages of 15 and 54 have some

mental illness. The figure used to be 0.1% of all ages, in the mid-1800s,

before psychs started to manufacture the myth of mental illness. If a police

chief offered crime statistics like this, he would be out of office, together

with the mayor.

 

Another oddity is that the first

edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the psychs’ definitive

list of mental illnesses, identified 112 of them in 1952; the fourth edition in

1994 listed 370 mental illnesses. One would be justified in wondering how such

an exponential rise in insanity could occur within just two generations.

 

Well, each new malady is added

to the DSM by a show of hands—how many among the psychs at a meeting agree with

the existence of a malady proposed verbally by one of their peers. As Dr. Renee

Garfinkel, a psychologist, noted: “The low level of intellectual effort was

shocking…. Diagnoses were developed by majority vote on the level we would

choose a restaurant. ‘You feel like Italian. I feel like Chinese. So let’s go

to a cafeteria.’ Then it’s typed into a computer.” Where do the ideas come from? Robert Spitzer, chairman of

the DSM-IV committee, thought up “self-defeating personality disorder” on a

fishing trip and persuaded his colleagues to include the disorder in DSM-IV.

 

Bear in mind, therefore, when

looking for some explanation for this rise in “mental illnesses,” that it is

only when a mental “illness” is listed in the DSM that psychs can bill

insurance companies for treating the “diseases,” invariably with drugs. What

other maladies were added most recently? Try “Math Disorder,” “Shopping

Disorder,” and to anyone who objects to any of the diagnoses that psychs can

make and the requisite “treatment,” there’s the catch-all, “Non-compliance with

treatment disorder.”

Psychs are apparently unable to

differentiate between an idea and a reality, because they believe that by coining disease-sounding terms,

the diseases then exist. In DSM IV, psychs do not distinguish between mental and

physical “disorders.” If a child keeps missing the ball in the ball park and

this upsets the child, the parent or the teacher, the child is said to have

“developmental coordination disorder” and is administered Ritalin or Prozac

instead of being coached to keep his eye on the ball, etc.

 

Not all psychiatrists are so

naïve as to fall for the DSM, however. In fact, an international poll of 150

mental health specialists in London during 2001 voted the DSM to be one of the

ten worst psychiatric papers. And medical doctors, most of whom still believe

that a thorough physical exam should be undertaken before any assumption is

made that irrational behavior is mental in origin, are not impressed with the

DSM, either. Dr. Dennis Dorman, member of the Royal College of Physicians of

the UK, described the DSM as “…nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry

a pseudo-scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the

public trough” ($6 billion to the US National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]

for psychiatric research in 1995 alone, for instance.).

 

Fraud by Any Other Name

If psychiatry started off on the wrong foot in denying the

spirituality of man as its basic premise, then it went seriously awry,

beginning in the 1960s, when it encroached on the field of neurology—an actual

science that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of physical abnormalities

and diseases of the brain. If part of the brain is physically damaged,

neurology deals with that as a physical problem. Up to that time, psychiatry

was meant to psychoanalyze (and render tractable with its other

punishment-based restraining and quieting techniques—see below) those patients

who had no physical problems but who were behaving irrationally.

 

But

psychiatrists realized in the 1960s that they could create a vast “market” and

achieve their goals of social control (see later) by redefining behavioral

problems as physical illnesses resulting from chemical imbalances in the brain

(the problem) and offering drugs to bring about balance (the solution). By

redefining more and more peculiarities of human behavior as “diseases,” it

would be possible to have the entire population of the world buying these

drugs—even those who had nothing wrong with them other than a disagreement with

this strategy, because they could be labeled as being in denial and therefore

chemically imbalanced.

 

The pharmaceutical industry was

quick to support this new theory that emotional and behavioral problems were

diseases of the brain due to a “chemical imbalance.” The problem with this

theory being that legitimate medicine requires the identification of physical

symptoms to diagnose a disease, and none have been found for any of the 374

Diseases listed in DSM IV after decades of research with billions of dollars of

tax payer and pharmaceutical company monies. Additionally, no tests exist to

determine the chemical status of a person’s brain while he is living.

 

But this doesn’t discourage

psychs from fraudulently misdiagnosing tens of millions of people as having

these “diseases.” Or pharmaceutical companies from making psychiatric drugs to

treat these made-up diseases.

 

What principle do psychiatrists use to determine who needs

these drugs? What principle do they use to determine rational versus irrational

behavior? It is called the “normative model,” meaning that majority behavior is

considered normal, and anyone who falls short or exceeds this majority behavior

is considered abnormal (true, by definition) and therefore unhealthy or insane

(an illogical conclusion). So if the majority acts irrationally, then anyone

being rational would be irrational. So much for psychiatric logic, but it gets

worse.

 

Enter the DSM shopping list, in which everyday issues and

difficulties are redefined as mental illness, and we find psychiatrists have

managed to create a new majority that is “mentally ill.” Yet majority behavior

is sane according to psychiatric theory—so we find psychiatric logic

contradicting itself. The

better way to determine sanity, of course, as well as mental difficulties, is

the use of reason, common sense and

ethics—the ability to act rationally in a manner that supports

the well-being of the majority involved in any given situation.

 

If psychiatrists resort to abstruse and obtuse logic to justify

their actions, they are not shy when it comes to altering the facts when it

serves their cause, but is it science? Consider their key claim that a

particular neurotransmitter causes a specific reaction and is localized to one

part of the brain. This then justifies the industry use of SSRIs (Selective

Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors), which they claim to have fine-tuned to a specific

location of the brain in order to inhibit a specific function of that brain

(let’s just assume that a particular area of the brain determines thought and

function, even though it has not been proven).

 

What’s the truth? Brain cells form molecules by combining

whatever atoms and smaller molecules they can, and spitting them across the

cleft between cells, to stimulate the next cell. In effect, there are thousands

of different types of molecules in use, not a handful as psychiatrists claim.

 

An analogy would be

psychiatrists claiming they had discovered man’s natural diet to be chocolate,

and insisting that chocolate provides all the nutrients one needs. Then

insisting that everybody eat only chocolate and, for good measure, teaming up

with the makers of chocolates to produce pricey chocolate in a pill. Or as one

student (who abandoned the profession during his grad school training) said

more succinctly, it is like trying to “perform delicate microsurgery on a field mouse by flying

overhead in a helicopter and dropping machetes under conditions of heavy wind.”

 

For anyone who imagines

psychiatric drugs actually do any good, consider the 2002 study by psychologists Irving Kirsch and Thomas Moore

published in the e-journal of the American Psychological Association.

They reviewed 47 research

test-studies submitted to the FDA for approval of antidepressants

including Prozac, Paxil, and

Zoloft. Their study

showed that sugar pills produced better results than these drugs. The

manufacturers make over $6 billion a year from the American public for these

particular sugar pills—which unlike real sugar pills, also create violent behavior, and psychosis with

withdrawal.

 

To show how psychiatry and

pharmaceutical companies have teamed up to create a cash cow, let’s consider a

very SAD story: Social Anxiety Disease was invented by

psychiatrists to give shyness a “scientific label” in 1997. Fifty mentions were

made in the media of this SAD condition in 1997 and 1998, but in 1999, one

billion media mentions occurred. Ninety-six percent of these also happened to

say that Paxil was the only FDA-approved medication that could treat SAD.

Curioser and curioser, until the Washington Post reported on July 16, 2001,

that the manufacturer of Paxil, Glaxo SmithKline, had paid Cohn & Wolfe, a

public relations agency, to coordinate a multimillion-dollar marketing and

advertising campaign, to “inform thousands of people who previously did not

know they were suffering from the disorder, and spurring many to seek needed

help.” Cohn & Wolfe told the

media that it was speaking for doctors and nonprofits—not the pharmaceutical

company that was paying its bills. Such altruism is not

reflected, however, in either Cohn & Wolfe’s annual reports, in which they

make it clear they are in the business of marketing, not public health, nor

Glaxo SmithKline’s 2000 annual report, in which shareholders read that Paxil

had become Number One for new retail prescriptions in the huge SSRI market

throughout the US during 2000.

 

This kind of PR, marketing and

advertising is false, and the Dutch government at least has started to tighten

the screws: The Netherlands

Advertisement Code Commission ruled in August 2002 that the country’s Brain

Foundation can not claim that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

is a neurobiological disease or brain dysfunction, and ordered the Foundation

to cease such false claims in their advertising.

When talking fraud, let’s also

consider the story of Prozac: In 1978, Eli Lilly, the manufacturer, knew Prozac

caused suicidal and homicidal thoughts. The German government refused to

approve Prozac in 1984 because trial results showed sixteen suicide attempts

(two of which succeeded) in a group of people selected precisely because they

were known not to be suicidal. Lilly withheld this from the FDA when it

obtained approval for Prozac in the US. Lilly then spent huge amounts of money

defending itself over murders and suicides committed under the influence of

Prozac because “Lilly can go down

the tubes if we lose Prozac” (Leigh Thompson, a chief scientist

at Lilly). The FDA’s records show 28,623 adverse reactions reported, 1,089 of

which were suicides with a further 1,885 suicide attempts. As the Government Accounting Office estimates between 1 and

10% of adverse reactions are reported to the FDA, Prozac suicides may be as

high as 108,900, with attempts at a whopping 188,500. Recent studies estimate

Prozac deaths in excess of 50,000 and 7- 10% of individuals taking Prozac

experiencing some adverse reaction.

 

In its efforts to hide the

truth, Lilly pressured its scientists in 1990 to alter records of physician

experiences with Prozac, changing “suicide attempt” to “overdose” and “suicidal

thoughts” to “depression.” The company settled most of the two hundred law

suits over Prozac out of court, with the terms kept confidential, and in 2002,

in promoting its new version of Prozac, stated it would not produce “suicidal thoughts and

self-mutilation…one of its more significant side effects”—an admission made

only because it would help with sales of the new product. With free,

unsolicited and unprescribed samples of Prozac being sent in the mail, Eli

Lilly’s motivation and ethic level are plain.

 

Yet even psychologists can see through the fraud: Jonathan

Abramowitz, a psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who

himself worked on DSM IV, warned “social anxiety is not a chemical problem with

the brain. I see it as a problem with normal thinking and behaviors that have

gone awry.”

 

David Kaiser, one of several

psychiatrists with the integrity to blow the whistle on his own kind, stated in

1996 “modern psychiatry has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic

cause of any single mental illness… Patients have been diagnosed with ‘chemical

imbalances’ despite the fact that no test exists to support such a claim,

and…there is no real conception of what a correct chemical balance would look

like.”

 

These

marketing strategies may make psychs and psychiatric-drugs companies lots of

money, but they also seriously compromise the survival of mankind as a result

of physical problems left untreated and the widespread ingestion of toxic

chemicals that result in a host of physical problems and mental side effects

ranging from stupidity to insanity, violence to suicide. One study showed that 83%

of those referred for mental treatment by clinics and social workers were found

to have an undiagnosed physical illness. Yet psychiatrists do not conduct

searching physical examinations. They merely consult a checklist of behaviors

produced by the mental disorders section of the World Health Organization, and

label and prescribe psychotropic drugs for diseases they know to have no basis

in fact. This violates the informed consent rights of patients and is medical

malpractice.

 

Perhaps

the difficulties that psychs face stem from a fundamental confusion: That the

software (mind) is just hardware (brain) and the end user (the spirit) does not

exist and so by default is just software (which is just hardware). But one

thing is certain: Their discipline is based on no science whatsoever. Not one

single detectable or diagnosable physical abnormality has been attributed to

any one of these mental “diseases.”

 

When psychs say that Ritalin,

Paxil, Haldol or any of the many psych drugs will remedy abnormalities/pathologies/chemical imbalances within the

brains of the children who are having difficulties in school, they are implying

they have detected such an imbalance and know exactly that it is remedied, let

us say, by Paxil. The problem is that no such studies or findings have ever

been made. This level of science is the same as that propounded by the

purveyors of quack medicine 150 years ago. Some things never change, and we

still find people falling for it. What has changed is that (a) the government

funds it, (b) it is not just being directed at thinking adults but babies and

children, under penalty of law for refusing to cooperate, and © the potions

are toxic.

 

It is

also completely unethical, in that psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical lobbies

spend billions to create the illusion that they are the all-knowing scientists

working under the mantle of “professional help” while their true motives are

personal profit without any regard for the truth, happiness and welfare of

those in their care.

 

It must be frustrating for

professionals to invest so many years of their lives into what turns out to be

a scam. Such frustration may well have as its root cause a reliance on opinions

in the place of facts to build a “science”. It’s the sticky question of

results. Take the lobotomy, for instance. This practice originated from one

case history, in which a crowbar blew through the prefrontal lobes of Pheneas

Gage during a rock-blasting operation in the US in 1847. He survived the

accident, it is true, but nowhere in the case history is there mention of any

improvement in his condition. On the contrary, he became extremely rude and

anti-social.

 

Psych Walter Freeman introduced

prefrontal lobotomies (hammering an ice pick through the eye sockets and using

it to sever the nerves behind the forehead) to the U.S., claiming that 25% of

the patients could be “considered as adjusting at the level of a domestic

invalid or household pet.” One hundred thousand people in the United States

have received the procedure since. Still no record exists of anyone being

improved by them, quite the opposite in fact, as a vegetative state is the

inevitable result, as well as a 20% death/suicide rate, brain infections (50%),

epileptic seizures, and loss of bowel and bladder control. The spirited Hollywood

beauty, Frances Farmer, was finally broken after a lobotomy by Dr. Freeman—a

singularly inappropriate surname it would appear.

 

 

A

Lobotomy Success

“I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by

tainted food,” recalled Frances Farmer, famous Hollywood actress. “I was

chained in padded cells, strapped to straitjackets and half drowned in ice

baths.” These baths consisted of being stripped naked and thrown into a tub of

icy water for six to eight hours at a time over a period of several months. She

was subjected to an extensive course of electroshock treatments and ninety

insulin shock treatments, “a brutal psychiatric torture that stuns the body in

addition to inflicting extensive brain damage.”

 

Farmer was no longer able to

concentrate or remember lines. She realized the treatments were “systematically

destroying the only thing she had ever been able to hold onto in life—her faith

in her artistic creativity.”

 

Because her spirit was not yet

broken, the psychiatrists incarcerated her again with criminals and the

mentally retarded crowded together, their meals thrown on the dirt floor to be

fought over. Farmer was again subjected to regular and continuous

electroshocks. She was prostituted to soldiers from the local military base and

raped and abused by the orderlies.

 

“One of the most vivid recollections

of some veterans of the institution would be the sight of Frances Farmer being

held down by orderlies and raped by drunken gangs of soldiers.” She was also

used as an experimental subject for various drugs such as Thorazine.

 

Still Farmer remained indomitable,

until one day Dr. Walter Freeman treated her. As her biographer William Arnold

said of the operation, “He put electrodes to her temples and gave her

electroshock until she passed out.

Then he lifted her left eyelid and plunged the ice-pick-shaped

instrument under her eyeball and into her brain.” Afterwards, Arnold continues,

“She would no longer exhibit the restless, impatient mind and the erratic

creative impulses of a difficult and complex artist. She would no longer resist authority or provoke

controversy. She would no longer

be a threat to anyone.”

 

Yet Ms. Farmer, who ended her days as a hotel clerk,

still had strength enough to say: “Never console yourself into believing that

the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the

despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in

the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the

unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying

institutions.”

 

 

The lobotomy was touted by

psychs as a “miracle cure” in the same way that electro-convulsive therapy

(ECT) was promoted in 1938 and psychotropic drugs are promoted today. Prozac is

meant to cure everything from weight gain to jealousy and pulling out ones

hair—a list that sounds as convincing as the pitch for the potions quack

doctors used to peddle a century ago.

 

What if psychs were not as

advertised, civilization’s last line of defense against global insanity and

barbarism? What if they really were the cause of the craziness around us that

they insist governments pay them handsomely for “preventing”? What if they were

not the rescuing cavalry but the curse of humanity? What if psychs really were

the greatest hoax in the last eight hundred years?

 

The director of the U.S.

National Institute of Mental Health, Rex Cowdry, certainly threw his weight

behind this conclusion in 1995 when he said: “We do not know the causes (of

psychiatric disorders). We don’t have methods of ‘curing’ these illnesses yet.” A 1999 Surgeon General report stated “No

single gene has been found to be responsible for any specific mental

disorder….There is no definite lesion, laboratory test or abnormality in brain

tissue that can identify the [mental] illness.”

 

Consider the words of Norman

Sartorius, who, as president of the World Psychiatric Association, announced to

fellow psychiatrists in 1994, “The time when psychiatrists considered that they

could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the future, the mentally ill will have

to learn to live with their illness.” If a mechanic made similar confessions,

would you leave your car with him?

 

If these two gentlemen are being

honest, then we have to assume that the other pronunciamentos in the media by

psychs of every color are nothing more than high-sounding language with no

substance behind them. Those millions of victims, those billions of dollars and

hours on research and treatment—they are all a pretense based on a pretend science.

 

Technology

that Quiets or Kills

Relying on the theory that man

is an animal without any spiritual existence, whose mind is really his brain,

then it is easy to see how this “science” produced the three key technologies

that it did.

 

What psychs do today is

primarily package any observable behavior, reclassify and label it with words

that make it sound like a mental disease, and then prescribe a drug(s) that

have many bad side effects listed in

the warning labels, symptoms that psychs often use to describe a mental

“illness.” For instance, the Physician’s Desk reference includes

side effects for Ritalin and Dexedrine of psychotic episodes. This results in more business for the

psychs with increased dosages of ever-stronger drugs. For the patients, there

is stupefaction, toxicity and brain and central nervous system damage—more

people were dying from prescription drugs by 1989 than from street drugs. For

society, there is increased crime (560% increase between 1960 and 1991), a drug

epidemic, lowered production, and tragedies like the Columbine High and Red

Lake Middle School shootings.

 

A psychiatrist, Loren Mosher, resigned from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1998 on the grounds that “psychiatry has been

almost completely bought out by the drug companies. The APA could not continue

without the pharmaceutical company support of meetings, symposia, workshops,

journal advertising, grand rounds luncheons, unrestricted educational grants

etc. etc…. We condone and promote the widespread overuse and misuse of toxic

chemicals that we know have serious long term effects… I want no part of a

psychiatry of oppression and social control… Is psychiatry a hoax as practiced

today? Unfortunately, the answer is mostly yes.”

 

But a lucrative one internationally.

“Antipsychotic” drug sales alone totaled $12 billion in 2003, despite study

after study showing patients worsening from their use.

 

The second technology is the

lobotomy, which was replaced partially in 1954 with the introduction of the

drug Thorazine, otherwise known as the chemical lobotomy. 300 surgical

lobotomies are still conducted annually in the United States each year.

 

The third technology is shock

therapy, mostly ECT these days—the application of up to 460 volts to the

temples of a patient, who is drugged to prevent bones breaking during the

attendant convulsions. ECT is applied to create a grand mal epileptic seizure

and permanent brain damage from oxygen deprivation. It results in memory loss

(82% of patients in one large 1990 Californian study), learning disability,

disorientation, brain shrinkage, coma, and sometimes death due to hemorrhaging

or choking. The “reduction in intelligence is an important factor in the

curative process,” according to one American psychiatrist (Abraham Myerson,

1942). Dr. Ugo Cerletti pioneered ECT in Italy in 1938 after seeing how pigs

were administered electric shock just before being slaughtered. He admitted in

1970 that it ought to be abolished. Yet 110,000 people still receive six to

twelve such treatments of ECT each year in the U.S., costing tax payers and

insurance companies $5 billion annually and 300 of these people their lives

(while earning psychs up to $3,600 per hour to administer). A study of 340 depressed patients by ECT proponent, Dr.

Harold A. Sackeim, showed that not one person received any lasting benefit from

the treatment. The same holds true of the other shock therapies (insulin and

metrazol) and the “latest advances” in shock therapy, TMS, VNS and DBS.

 

While the non-drug techniques mentioned above have fallen out of

favor today, they were claimed to be the highly effective during their heyday,

with no evidence to show any real benefits for those patients who were

administered. Does this sound familiar with regard to the latest psychiatric breakthrough—psychotropic

drugs to cure mental “diseases”?

 

So let’s review the typical reactions to psychotropic drugs:

 

 

Minor tranquilizers

can cause lethargy, confusion, sexual dysfunction, hallucination, severe

depression, insomnia and muscle tremors. Withdrawing cold turkey can

result in seizures and death.

Antidepressants can

cause drowsiness, lethargy, difficulty thinking, memory problems,

delusions, seizures, fever, liver damage, heart attacks and strokes.

SSRIs result in

withdrawal symptoms in 50% of takers, sexual dysfunction in 60%, and

seizures, hearing loss, paranoia and suicide.

 

 

These psychiatric solutions all

address the “hardware.” But just like any computer, mental issues people face

are almost all problems relating to the software, not the hardware. If every

time your computer crashed, customer service’s pat response was to send a

technician to apply a few extra volts to the hardware or douse it in some

chemical, how much use would you have of your computer?

Legitimizing

and Institutionalizing the Scam

German psychologists introduced

experimental psychology into a world that was ignorant of matters of the mind,

but which conceived man to have a spiritual component. Like all early

movements, psychology had some converts among a majority who considered it

either absurd or unscientific. Influential American devotees visited Germany,

however, and returned to the United States to introduce the theories into

schools. German professors came to the U.S., too, exporting their technology

and theories.

 

Ernst Rudin, professor of

psychiatry at Munich and director of the Department of Heredity at the Kaiser

Wilhelm Institute, for instance, visited the U.S. in 1930. He was praised by

the leaders of the Carnegie Foundation and supported financially by a large

Rockefeller grant. Rudin was the architect of Nazi Germany’s sterilization law.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute is the place where, until 1990, psychs kept the

brains of hundreds of children for psychiatric research—children murdered and

dismembered by psychs in the Nazi concentration camps.

 

By the thirties, Hollywood was

legitimizing the wisdom of psychs and by the forties, government was funding

psychiatric programs as the solution to controlling the otherwise independent

and unruly minds of its more boisterous subjects. The

infamous-but-now-forgotten Alaska Bill was just a vote or two shy of passing in

the mid-Fifties, which would have given psychs the power to lock up and

electrocute anyone in mental health camps in Alaska, without recourse. The CIA

used psychs in an attempt to control minds for their own ends, continuing the

research undertaken by psychs in Nazi concentration camps. Today, we have

Homeland Security potentially providing the atmosphere and enforcement

mechanism to edge the Land of the Free closer to such psychiatric-controlled

gulags once more.

 

These facts listed above may

paint an alarming picture with a broad brush, but the words below of the

founders of the World Federation of Mental Health, G. Brock Chisholm and J.R.

Rees, show plainly that psychs are engaged in breaking down any sense of social

and moral responsibility and creating an ignorant, drug-addicted society that

is increasingly in turmoil. The WFMH was established in 1948 and runs National

Associations of Mental Health, which in turn set about the establishment of

psych facilities, agendas and programs in each country.

 

First of all, the approach

psychs were to take was outlined by Rees in a 1940 speech: “Public life,

politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence…. If

we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I

think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column

activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread, we, as

the salesmen, must lose our identity…. Let us all, therefore, very secretly be

‘fifth columnists.’”

 

This goal was executed

subsequently in the U.S. by four psychiatrists (Robert Felix, William

Menninger, Francis Braceland and Jack Ewalt), who wrote the basis of a

legislative bill that was signed into law mid-1946, creating the National

Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and a national mental health program funded

by taxpayer dollars. It was and is the only branch of medicine to have its

training subsidized by the taxpayer. NIMH was empowered to carry out

psychiatric research, fund psych training and assist states with

community-based prevention programs. The three-phase program for world mental

health development called for:

 

1.

Setting

up psych institutions

2.

Establishing

community out-patient centers, one for every 100,000 population

3.

Parental

and pre-marital guidance, child and welfare services and the introduction of

psych programs into schools.

 

In 1963, Congress authorized

$150 million to build the centers and in 1965, a further $735 million to staff

them. The price tab for these centers rose dramatically, from $140 million in 1969 to $11 billion

today, an increase thousands of times greater that the tenfold rise in the

number of people using these centers. Part of the reason for this

was found in a 1990 Congressional committee: up to $100 million was going

straight into the pockets of the psychs. And what are the psychs doing in these

centers for the $150 billion of taxpayer money that has been given them? Giving

neuroleptic drugs (chemical lobotomies) automatically to all patients. The

result is the homeless people one sees wandering around muttering to themselves

or worse (90% of these patients in one 1999 survey were found to be depressed),

and psychiatric drug companies with fat coffers (2003 sales of $8 billion in

the US for anti-psychotic drugs).

 

NIMH has funded the training of

psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers and nurses, and public

health officers for years. Today, we find psychiatric theory and influence at

every turn: in schools, hospitals and doctor’s offices, businesses, media and

entertainment, retirement homes, courtrooms, and the list goes on. Let’s look,

therefore, at the effect of some key psych programs:

 

No Black

and White, Just Dirty Grey

G. Brock Chisholm stated in

1945, “The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right

and wrong which has been the basis of child training…are the belated objectives

of practically all effective psychotherapy.”

In keeping with this goal,

psychiatrists began to insert themselves into the legal system in the US and

had the carte blanche they sought with the Durham decision of 1954, which

placed psychiatrists in the court systems in the country, setting the precedent

for the rest of the world. The

same judge who made that ruling (David Bazelon) then made another one in 1966

that gave psychs the right to enforce treatment.

 

Since then, they have brought

about the wide use of the insanity defense, redefining criminals as victims of

their past, rather than responsible for their own actions. Psychs have also

brought about the spectacle of conflicting psychiatric testimony that forwards

the interests of whoever is paying them. The APA itself filed a statement in

the US Supreme Court admitting that psychiatric “predictions are fundamentally

of very low reliability and…irrelevant” in court. Yet psych mumbo-jumbo, and

reference to DSM IV as the authoritative

source, still occur throughout the court and prison systems.

 

Psychs in court predict whether

a defendant is a danger to society. Yet they hit an 85% error record according

to one study printed in the Michigan Bar Journal in 1994. And the vice

president of the Japanese Psychiatric Association stated categorically in 2002 that

it was impossible to predict a defendant’s dangerousness….

 

Psychs counsel the police and

criminals both. The result is three hundred police commit suicide each year,

30% higher than the national average. And 80% of criminals end up in prison

again—a 1974 study in St. Louis, showed that 82% of those arrested had received

psychiatric treatments prior to committing the crime. Psychs focus on giving

inmates powerful psychotropic drugs despite numerous studies linking violence

and aggression to these drugs; and on running counseling programs. A study of

one such program by the California Dept of Corrections, showed 78% of parolees

back in prison within three years.

 

What has been the result of this

psych insinuation into the world of crime and justice? Violent crime is up 67%

between 1975 and 2000 in the US, 100% in France, 145% in England and 410% in

Spain, and so the list goes on.

 

Turning

Schools into Mental Health Clinics

Perhaps more tragic still is the

encroachment of psych theories and practices in our schools over the last

century, particularly the last thirty-five years.

 

Education was first undermined

in the U.S. when psychology courses were introduced in American teaching

colleges in 1899. The “Father of American Education,” John Dewey, wrote in his School and

Society that same year: “There is no obvious social motive for the

acquiring of learning. It is one of the greatest mistakes of education to make

reading and writing constitute the bulk of the schoolwork for the first two

years. The ultimate problem of all education is to coordinate the psychological

and social factors…and schools should take an active part in determining the

social order of the future.” Edward Thorndike created Educational Psychology in

1903. In his 1929 book, he stated that the three Rs, phonetics, multiplication

tables and formal writing movements were wasteful, with arithmetic, language

and history being intrinsically of little value. Psychs also decided to remove

the “stress” factors in education, such as academic curriculums, disciplinary

procedures and school failure. These leaders de-emphasized academics and

focused instead on changing behavior, attitudes and feelings.

 

Values Clarification programs

were introduced that have gone under several different names since, most

recently being called Outcome–Based Education (OBE). These carefully teach

children that morals are defunct. The psychs thereby shifted the emphasis from

teaching students to controlling and molding them, thus making it more

difficult for the students to learn, and opening them up to being difficult

students who then “needed” drugs to behave properly.

 

Psych influence in our schools

was assured in 1965 with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education

Act, providing the funding for psych programs, testing and personnel in

schools. The psychs introduced a plethora of labels to describe typical child

behavior (such as fidgeting) as well as redefining difficulty with math or

reading (DSM Code # 315.1 and 315 respectively) as “mental disorders” rather than

the lack of adequate teaching (because teachers were increasingly being

redirected from teaching to controlling). In effect, psychs turned schools into

mental health clinics and education into a mental problem that chemicals

(drugs) were meant to remedy.

 

By 1969, there were 455

psychiatrists in schools, a number that had bloated to 16,146 by 1992. By 1994,

psychs and their cohorts in and around schools almost outnumbered teachers.

Pharmaceutical companies have financed “grassroots” groups such as

CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD), who received $1 million from the

manufacturer of Ritalin to create an apparent ground swell of public demand for

psychiatric drug usage in schools, and so help bring about Title One of the

Federal Code, Children With Disabilities Act and the Supplemental Security

Income program in 1991. These provided schools with up to $650 annually for each child diagnosed with a “disorder,” giving schools “an incentive to identify

more kids with special education needs,” according to an Education Department

official.

 

There has been a 1,100% increase between 1987 and 2001, for

instance, in the diagnosis of ADHD in American children, with 20.6 million

prescriptions written in 2001. Compare this to the conclusion the world’s

experts in ADHD reached at a 1998 conference: “Our knowledge about the cause or

causes of ADHD remains largely speculative.”

 

In 1996, $15 billion was spent

in the U.S. on managing the various psychiatric disorders that children were

suddenly manifesting. The same is occurring in other wealthy countries: Germany

saw the number of stimulants prescribed to children jump from 7 million in 1995

to 31 million in 1999. In 1992,

2,000 such prescriptions were written in the UK, and by the year 2,000, 186,000

had been written. This money, of course, goes into psych and drug

manufacturers’ coffers.

 

When the US Department of

Education investigated what was happening to the $28 billion being funneled to

psychiatrists for their “special education” programs for those labeled by psychiatrists

as suffering from “learning disabilities,” the Department discovered 40% of the

students had simply not been taught to read.

 

How has this approach to

educating U.S. school children affected them? Over six million of our

primary-through-high-school children are now on mind-altering drugs (17 million

worldwide as of 2004), compared to one million on street drugs. As one

observant parent of one such child noted, “The drugs rob these kids of their personality. They become

quiet little robots.” Except, that is, for the 4% of users (80,000 children)

that psychiatrist Peter Breggin, author of “Toxic Psychiatry,” reports are

prompted to violent behavior.

 

Matthew Cohen, president of Children and Adults with ADHD in

Landover, MD has the pat answer to this violence, however: “The medication doesn't produce the

violence. The more accurate thing to say is that the medication was

insufficient to prevent it.” Interesting, as the DEA reports 80% of amphetamine

use in the US is for ADHD, with production increasing 3,750% between 1993 and

2000, In November 2000, 19 million prescriptions were made out to one-in-five

of our school children.

Ritalin, which “shares many of the

pharmacological effects of ... cocaine” according to a 1995 DEA report,

but is longer lasting, goes for up

to $10 a pill on the

black market on school campuses.

 

The fact that teen suicides have

tripled since the 1960s (second highest cause of death in this age bracket) can

be laid squarely at the door of psychiatric drug pushers, as well as their

twisted sense of education in providing “death education”—stories of death,

murder, suicide, and asking children what they want written on their

tombstones.

 

School children murdering others

in cold blood have been in the news much over the last few years. No fewer than

1,336 children aged 13-17 years were arrested for murder in 1987. By 1992, the

number had risen to 2,829; but what of the less high-profile crimes?

 

Between 1965 and 1992, teenage drug arrests rose from

10 to 147 per 100,000 juveniles.

In 1992, 5,364 rapes were committed by under 18’s,

with 2,049 of them by children under 15.

 

 

If we look at the purpose the

majority of us believe education is meant to have—educating our children—we see

equally alarming statistics: Verbal and math SAT scores combined began dropping

in 1963, and have fallen eighty points to 890. In the 1930s, three million

adults could not read because they had not been to school. In 1990, forty

million could not understand what they were reading, or perform simple math calculations,

even after a decade in school.

 

The year 2000 National Achievement Tests showed more than

two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders were unable to read up to grade level. Was

this because they were no longer being taught how to read using phonics, or

because they really were “mentally disordered, developmental learning types,”

which is what the psychs claim, demanding that the kids be put on psych drugs?

For failing school boards, having a purported biological reason (psych-drug

deficiencies in the brain) for an inability to read by students in their charge

is easier to face than the idea that they have abandoned workable teaching

methods in favor of behavior control and other destructive psych-based systems.

So the teachers have been turned into amateur psychologists in pinning labels

on their students and turning them over to the psych/pharmaceutical machine

that has been built into our schools. Note that the intent is not to target

teachers: like everyone else in society, they trusted the psych profession.

 

Weakening

the Family

If the psych agenda is really to

weaken the individual and make him more controllable, then the last thing one

would want is a strong family to bolster his confidence and morale. So it was

that G. Brock Chisholm pronounced the following in London in 1948: “The family

is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health and hence, should

be weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and especially children

from the coercion of family life.”

 

Today, Social Service bureaucrats in the U.S. have the power to

declare parents guilty of child abuse and to take their children away until the

parents can prove their own innocence.

 

The result of the psych agenda

over the last century in particular, has been more than disastrous for the

family:

 

1.

Divorces

in the U.S. have increased from 6% to 33% of marriages over the last century,

tripling since 1950

2.

Unmarried

couples have increased 700% since 1970

3.

15-19

year-old pregnancies increased 310% between 1960 and 1991

4.

Pregnancies

in under-15s increased 140%.

5.

666,000

children were born to single girls in 1982, four times as many as in 1950.

6.

Single

mums increased 367% between 1970 and 1982.

 

It seems that apart from

destroying all concepts of right and wrong and undermining the family as a

unit, psychs have introduced sex education into schools that encourages

promiscuity and perversion. As the answer to one question about when to engage

in sex stated, “Do what you like and when you want. Your emotions are what

count.”

 

Parental discipline has been

redefined as “child abuse.” Parental concern for the upbringing of their

children has been renamed “over-protectiveness,” and an enforcing of outmoded

religious and moral values. “Tolerating” whatever the child does is now a

positive parental trait. Hilary Clinton stated as much in her book, “It Takes a Village.”

 

Subverting

Religion

In keeping with Freud’s dim view

of religion, G. Brock Chisholm stated: “To achieve world government, it is

necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to

family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” Chisholm and Rees

targeted religion therefore for “mental health orientation,” especially through

the training in psychology of the clergy.

Knowing this hitherto hidden

purpose, it is ironic yet understandable that we find churches looking to

psychs for training on the mind and the “true nature of man.” The result of

this trust has been a severe decline in church membership and activity:

 

 

By 1952, 83% of 109 seminaries and graduate

theological schools in the U.S. offered one or more psych courses.

By 1961, 9,000 clergymen had taken psych-based

“clinical pastoral” counseling classes. The clergy were referring

parishioners to the community mental health centers.

While in 1960, 42% of parishioners consulted their

clergy for help and only 18% went to psychs , by 1991, 38% were going to

psychs.

Church membership dropped 25% in the US between 1961

and 1991.

 

 

The pedophile scandal in the

United States that has so damaged the Catholic Church can also be laid in part

at the door of the many psychs who ran completely unworkable rehabilitation programs on pedophile

priests, and who, as a body, have made sexual crimes into mental diseases to be

“treated.”

 

Captive

Audiences

The elderly with health

insurance coverage have been prime targets for the psych industry. Fraud has

been rampant, as might be expected, and Medicare finally barred eighty Community Mental Health

Centers from serving the elderly and disabled in 1998. It’s just too

bad that 73,000 elderly die each year from adverse reactions to the psych drugs

they are administered.

 

Psychs also have a captive

audience in those kept in psych hospitals, usually against their will and often

under false pretenses. Between 1950 and 1990, the number of inpatient deaths in

psychiatric hospitals in the country was almost double the total number of

deaths in every single war the U.S. has engaged in, from the Revolutionary War

to the Gulf War. Psychs filled a similar role in Nazi Germany: of the 320,000

in-patients alive in psych hospitals in 1939, only 40,000 remained alive in

1946. The last survivor of the Brandenburg Havel institution, Elvira Manthey,

related years later that she and her three-year-old sister, Lisa, were declared

feeble-minded and incarcerated by a psychiatrist in 1938. Lisa died in the gas

chambers the following year.

 

There’s

Money in Them ‘Thar Pills

As Canadian psychologist and

author of Manufacturing

Victims, Tana Dineen, stated so succinctly recently, psychology is

neither a science nor a profession, but an industry that turns healthy people

into victims to provide itself with income. From the mouths of Chisholm and

Rees, it seems that psychs as a body have set themselves a goal of engineering

world government and social control in the guise of helping individuals and

society.

 

How much money are we talking

about? Mental health expenditures, paid for by every taxpayer, rose almost 800%

between 1970 and 1995, to $28.6 billion per annum in the United States. As

covered above, Federal funds are provided through the U.S. National Institute

of Mental Health to state branches for “research” and to community level

programs in schools, courts, welfare agencies etc. Federal funds are allotted

to finance psych programs in our schools, communities, the armed forces,

prisons and courtrooms and the list goes on. At $3,500 per hour for “expert

court testimony” or for administering ECT, one can guess at another motivation

for becoming a psych. For the psychiatric drug companies, life is also sweet:

In 1999, the US market alone for antidepressants and “anti-psychotic'” drugs

was over $10 billion.

 

As might be expected of a

product and service that is based on junk science, psychs create problems in

society, they do not solve them. And when the situation they are paid to remedy

continues to deteriorate, they say they need more money to solve the problem

with more drugs and re-education. Most people, from the U.S. President to the

media, have fallen for this line. In the wake of the Columbine High shootings,

the gun lobby came under attack. With the exception of a few perceptive

writers, such as Bev Eakman in the

Washington Times and Alexander Cockburn in the Los Angeles Times,

none asked why many school shooting over the last few years had been committed

by a child who was on or trying to come off psychiatric drugs with warning labels that

include suicide and violence among their side effects.

 

 

Jeff Weise of Red Lake Middle School

in Minnesota was on Prozac when he killed 9 students, teachers and his

grandfather/his companion and then himself.

Eric Harris at

Columbine High was on Luvox when he killed twelve classmates and a teacher

in Denver, Colorado.

Kip Kinkel in

Springfield, Oregon was withdrawing from Prozac when he shot 24

classmates/family members.

Shawn Cooper, a

15-year-old in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin when he fired a shotgun at

school.

14-year-old

Elizabeth Bush was on Prozac when she shot at fellow students in

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.

Mitchell Johnson was

taking an unspecified psych drug when he shot at fellow students in

Jonesboro, Arkansas.

T.J. Solomon, a

15-year-old in Conyers, Georgia, was taking Ritalin when he shot six

classmates.

Jason Hoffman was on

Effexor and Celexa when he wounded five students at his California high

school.

Cory Baadsgaard was

on Paxil when took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates

hostage.

 

 

Why has nobody asked why these

children were on heavy drugs? Because “everyone knows that the problem with so

many kids these days is that they are ‘mentally ill’ and we need more drugs to

quiet them at a younger age.” If we can just “clean up the entertainment

industry and remove all guns,” then what will we have? We will have an entire

nation on drugs, seething with an inner rage and finding ways of killing others

with whatever weapons they can find.

 

Portrait

of a Con Artist

What kind of person is leading

us down this sylvan path to the utopia that George Orwell predicted fifty years

ago? The average psychiatrist in the US today is one among 42,000 and supported

by 12,000 psychiatric hospitals.

 

He or she makes in excess of $130,000 each year

(1993).

While they make up only 8% of the medical profession

in 1985, over 18% of physicians suspended from U.S. health insurance

programs for fraud were psychs.

40% of them are sued for malpractice in the US

221 received criminal convictions

in 2001—an increase from 100 in 1998—53% for health care fraud and 26% for

sexual crimes against their patients. While one-in-four psychiatrists worldwide admits to

sexually abusing his or her patients, 65% of patients tell their

psychiatrist they were sexually abused by their previous psychiatrist. In

one study, 150,00 patients were found to have been sexually abused by

their psychiatrist, 5% being minors as young as three years old. 21,000 of

these patients subsequently tried to kill themselves, 1,500 of them

succeeding.

The largest health care fraud suit

in history (for $375 million) involved the smallest

sector of healthcare—psychiatry. Fraudulent schemes have included billing

insurers for therapy given to people already dead, for having sex with

patients or letting them watch TV or play bingo. Between $20 and $40

billion in such fraudulent billings by the mental health industry occur in

any given year.

Two-thirds of psychs are seriously mentally ill,

according to one study—10% attempting suicide or abusing drugs.

Psychotherapists manifest up to three times as many

incidents of inappropriate behavior as the people they are meant to be

treating.

 

 

The medical profession advanced

to the degree that the responses of practitioners were standardized and each

practitioner had a professional attitude toward his or her patients. Having

psychs assume the mantle of a professional caregiver only serves to degrade the

medical profession as a whole.

 

The psych scam is so solidly in

place that everyone from National Public Radio to the White House pushes the

psych lines, championing such as the mental health parity and ignoring the real

cause of the school shootings. Yet these issues pale in comparison to what

happens when psychs are given free reign to operate in totalitarian states,

such as Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and even modern China. As stated

already, the powers the US government has taken unto itself since 9/11 has

moved the country further away from the constitutionally guaranteed rights and

freedoms that would protect us from such government control of our lives.

 

A Docile World Population That Can’t Just

Say “No!”

The genocide we have witnessed

this past century has its roots in psychiatry. It was initially touted as

racial hygiene in 1895 by its originator, psychiatrist Alfred Ploetz. A Nazi

psychiatrist summed up the connection between psychiatry and Hitler succinctly

when he stated, “Only through the Führer did our dream of over thirty years,

that of applying racial hygiene to society, become a reality.” Of note,

psychiatrist Edmund Foster implanted Hitler during hypnosis in 1918 with a

megalomaniac command that was to have equally tragic consequences.

 

Then again, if you were

wondering about the parallels between the old Nazi and the new Serb agenda in

the 1990’s, look no further than psychiatrists Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic. Or for the real

influence behind Al-Quaida, consider that chief advisor to Osama bin-Laden

is/was psychiatrist Dr. Ayman al-Zawhariri, and that psychologist Ali A.

Mohamed trained bin-Laden’s men. Or consider the psychiatrist, Abu Hafiza, who

masterminded the Madrid train bombings in 2004.

 

As G.

Brock Chisholm stated, psychologists and psychiatrists had to become leaders in

the “planned development of a new kind of human being.” It seems that George

Orwell only had the date wrong. How so? Because less than two decades after the

date set by Orwell, the legal, and psychiatric elements are finally in place,

including a populace being at a point where it will accept the conditions for a

compliant society controlled by psychiatric drugs. A country that has been

dumbed down with a false education cannot think for itself when bombarded with

false information about how the mind is a physical object susceptible to drug

deficiencies. According to the UN’s International Drug Control Board, 330

million doses of Ritalin are taken each day in the U.S., compared with just 65

million in the rest of the world. The criteria for diagnosis are so general

that virtually anyone would qualify for a prescription.

 

By forcing or sneaking through Federal and/or state laws,

psychiatrists now have the right to examine and determine which babies may be a

threat to society and so add mint-flavored Prozac to their formulas. As the

millions of children diagnosed with fake labels and forced onto drugs will

testify, they and their parents were cajoled or forced to take them when they

ran into trouble at school. This despite Article 33 of the 1989 UN

Convention on the Rights of the Child stating that children have the right to

protection from the “illicit use of psychotropic substances.” The way around

that, of course, is to pass a law demanding children be forced to take

psychotropic substances.

 

That’s how the use of psychotropic drugs on 2-to-4-year olds

tripled between 1991 and 1995 in the USA. A recent study at the Michigan State

University in East Lansing revealed that both Ritalin and Prozac were being

prescribed to toddlers between the ages of 1 and 3, even while Ritalin

manufacturer, Novartis, states: “Warning: sufficient data on the safety and

efficacy of long term use of Ritalin in children are not yet available.”

 

The Oregon legislature has passed into law a bill that provides

$25 million for a “preventive mental health” screening program to identify and

pre-treat newborns who are determined to be at “psycho/social risk.” 3,400 one-year-olds were prescribed psychotropic drugs in France

in 2001, no doubt many more by now.

 

The Mental Health Parity efforts over the last two years are an

effort to provide unlimited funding for psychotropic drug usage throughout the

country. It is pushed heavily by The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

(NAMI), a psych front group with strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

 

This parity legislation encourages doctors to assign a code from

DSM IV to their patients, so they can be paid for psychiatric drug

prescriptions. With the passage of the euphemistically named “patient

confidentiality” law in 2002, an individual (and his heirs) has no right to see

his own medical records, even though a label of some “mental problem” will

stigmatize him forever. If he is ever arrested, applies for a sensitive job, or

sues for damages against a doctor or a drug company over unwelcome side

effects, his credibility will be compromised. Worse, he will become an easy

candidate for “civil commitment,” as in Florida’s Baker Act or California’s

Code 5150. Currently, one person

is committed against his or her will in the United States every 75 seconds.

 

Civil commitment is carried out by a police officer, emergency

medical services worker, a pastor, the principal of a school or by any medical

doctor, psychologist, social worker or probation officer (etc.), to forcibly

take an individual into custody in a mental ward or mental hospital for

treatment and/or observation of a “mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder”

as found in the latest version of the DSM of the American Psychiatric Association.

 

Not so long ago, President Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil

Empire. It was the political entity in which citizens who disagreed with the

government were labeled mentally aberrant and imprisoned in mental institutions

until their thinking had been adjusted by psych drugs and conditioning. It is

still being done in China, where members of the peaceful Falungong spiritual

group are imprisoned in mental hospitals. In 2004, $20 million was provided by

the House Appropriations Committee to begin the implementation of a plan drawn

up by the US President’s “New Freedom on Mental Health Commission.” The plan

requires the screening of all Americans for mental illness and the prescription

of psychotropic drugs for those found to be mentally ill when compared to DSM

IV. The commission failed to notice a glaring illogicality in its stance: that their solution to

the fact that “…The [Mental Health] system is not oriented to the single most

important goal of the people it serves—the hope of recovery” is to give the

same ineffective treatments to everybody.

 

Obviously you weren’t consulted, but is this vision of a new human

being something you really want? Is your concept of the ideal human being an

amoral, promiscuous, criminally-inclined drug addict who considers himself just

one animal among many, with some animals less equal than others? Maybe this is

what G. Brock Chisholm and his ilk see when they look in the mirror, but are

the majority of us really like that?

 

Eight hundred years ago, the secretive Assassins ruled Eastern

Europe and the Middle East—arguably the biggest scam before psychiatry, and how

similar their methods! The fanatics would stuff young men full of hashish

(named after Hashshashin or Hasan ibn-al-sabbah, founder of the secret cult)

and have them awaken in a veritable Garden of Eden with rivers of actual honey

and fountains of milk and buxom wenches to fulfill their every wish. After a

few days, the controllers would tell the young men they could return to

“heaven” only if they killed (a political enemy) and died in the process. What

did the assassins gain? An early death, while the manipulators enjoyed complete

social control and wealth—just mentioning to the local caliph that the

Assassins would be paying a visit unless he parted with all his spare gold, and

it would be produced faster than he could say “Allah.”

 

What eventually happened to the Assassins? After three hundred

years of holding sway, they were butchered by Timurlane the Great’s troops

after one boy scaled the rock face below the assassin’s hitherto impregnable

fortress, climbed its walls and opened the front gates to the Mongol hoards.

 

Instead of hoards of sword-bearing Mongols to put an end to the

psych butchery, fear and quackery, maybe it’s time we shone the bright light of

truth on the hitherto invisible fortress of psychiatry in our midst. Maybe we

should quit supporting the scam with our tax dollars and cease deferring to the

better judgment of an Authority made so by virtue of its own claims, rather

than its ability to obtain useful and desirable results. Maybe we should bring

psychs back under the law of the land, laws that cover perjury, fraud, treason,

conspiracy, antitrust, mayhem, and, yes, even murder.

 

In case you became dispirited reading about all this evil, know

that the cracks are starting to appear in the dam the drug companies and

psychiatrists have been trying to build between the light of truth, and the

dark lies they have been spinning for the last half century. Even the FDA

admitted in 2004 that SSRIs lead to suicide in children, following the banning

of the use of these drugs on children in England. That the FDA then bowed to

drug company pressure and amended the warning label they had mandated, to read

that the drugs only caused increased risk of suicide in drug trials, is

predictable but won’t stand up to the truth—if you add your weight to the

effort to rid our planet of those who think you are a) an animal to be

controlled by those who know what is best for you, and b) a source of income.

 

Lastly, in case it seems that

the psychs are obviously so nutty that they cannot possibly succeed, then think

of the millions of lives already ruined, being ruined, and still to be ruined

if the US New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report has its way. It recommended

in 2003 that all 52 million of America’s school children be screen for “mental

illness” for “early detection and treatment.” Or if the Universal Mental Health

coverage proposed in 2004, is allowed to come to pass with mental health

screening for all Americans. These “mental health” efforts sound well intended

and plausible, until you know that psychiatry’s ability to define, let alone

detect and cure “mental illness” is a joke. Until you remember that there is no

such thing as a mental “illness” and that psychiatry is an effort at social

control, not individual betterment. Until you recognize that psychiatric drugs

and other treatments are only ever destructive. Yet these efforts

to legalize complete psychiatric control of our lives were fought with fantastic

effort by the alert few. We all need to stand up and fight back. This is our

life and country these people are messing with! These are our children and

schools, our religions, our heads they are destroying, just so they can have

power and wealth.

 

One very concrete contribution you can make to this battle between

good and evil, therefore, is to email me if you have been abused by a psych, or

know someone who has. Together, we will put an end to the fraudulent and

damaging activities of psychs: we will put them (and unethical drug

manufacturers) in prison, where they belong. And one day, with the real sources

of society’s ills behind bars, the rest of us can lead lives free of those who

wish us ill.

 

 

Steven Ferry

Minister, professor, author and citizen “psychbuster”

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[Guest guest]

I am new here and found this article excellent. Having had been on

over 24 different medications for a period of over 17 years

(beginning at age 14), I am now on my 5th year drug-free, and doing

better than I ever have in my life. I have done a lot of research

and this article sums it up so well. I think in years to come we

will look back and be sicked by what the medical establishment has

done.

Debi

 

 

herbal remedies , " Dr. Ian Shillington "

<DocShillington wrote:

>

> Fifth Cavalry or Fifth Column?

> Examining Psychiatry's Role in Our Lives

> by Steven Ferry

>

> The many schools of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis

(psychs) have stated over and over in many different ways over the

decades that they are sciences of the mind. Based on this

positioning, the average citizen and our great governments consider

these " doctors of the mind " to be the experts on the mind, and to be

able to improve the mental state of individuals.

>

> So it is with some surprise that investigations (specifics given

below) show that genocide by the Nazis in Europe, by the Serb

leadership in Bosnia and Kosovo; suicidal terrorists; shooting

rampages in our schools; spiraling crime rates and an increasingly

amoral and dysfunctional society all have these disciplines as

common denominators. Furthermore, it appears these same people have

managed to kill twice as many Americans under their direct care

between 1950 and 1990 alone as have died in all the wars the United

States ever engaged in.

>

> So how does one reconcile a science for improving mental states

with wholesale death and societal decay?

>

> Psychs have explained away their crimes and made them invisible to

the average citizen and even governments by engaging in countless

activities that are too incredible to be believed. Anyone pointing

out that this particular emperor is wearing no clothes finds his

words falling on deaf ears because patently nothing could be so off

base and yet still remain in a position of authority today-so

obviously the whistleblower must be some wild-eyed fanatic, possibly

even a psychiatric patient!

>

> Explaining his excesses, Adolph Hitler, who was eagerly endorsed

by psychs in Germany and the United States, once boasted that the

more outrageous the deed, the less people would want or be able to

believe it. We are not, today, devastated by economic collapse as

the Germans were in 1933; we do not live in a police state where all

the media is controlled by the government. Most of us are blessed

with a sufficiently high IQ not to fall for the kind of diatribes

expressed by Neo-Nazis and similar fanatical groups today. So we can

surely think for ourselves and see when the wool has been pulled

over our eyes. But supposing the data we have been fed as

reasonable, and which we use to reach our conclusions, is actually

flawed? Would we then necessarily be able to recognize what may be

the greatest hoax in the last eight hundred years?

>

> Psychs (650,000 of them around the world) have inserted themselves

into almost every facet of our lives, changing the way we think and

view our selves and life as a whole. They have used billions upon

billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars to finance their

activities. They use their own ineffectiveness in bringing about

sanity and improved mental states as evidence that more government

allocations are required to combat " the problem, " which itself

didn't exist until psychs materialized two centuries ago and stated

there was a problem. Their actions have resulted in multiple real

problems in society, as the following article should make clear.

>

> How many failed launches would the government and taxpayers allow

before they told NASA that enough was enough? Yet psychs have had

nothing but failed launches since they started. Before anyone

rejects this notion as too extreme, let's hypothesize that psychs

had taken a wrong turn right from the get-go? Supposing man isn't

just an animal that can be cured of ills with chemicals and

Pavlovian coercions? Wouldn't that be something to consider, bearing

in mind how deeply these practitioners have inserted their thinking

into our lives. It might explain why psychs are hard put to achieve

the improvements in man's condition that one would expect from a

science of the mind and why everywhere we turn, we are confronted by

reportedly unsolvable problems in society (all of which psychs have

been paid big bucks to fix).

>

> As you consider the information that follows, keep in mind the

words of Schopenhauer, the Nineteenth Century German

philosopher: " All truth passes through three stages: First it is

ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as

being self-evident. " Maybe by the end of this article, you can skip

straight to the third stage.

>

> A Pretend Science

> From the moment Wilhelm Wundt, a Marxist professor of psychology

at Leipzig University, Germany, declared the study of the spirit

(psyche-ology) a futile endeavor in 1879, the rest of the world has

been led to believe by psychs that man was no more than an animal

responding to stimuli from the environment-in other words, a victim.

Although it shocked the religious majority at the time, which

believed that man had a spiritual dimension and was responsible for

his own actions, the idea was far from new. Materialism had been on

the rise for two centuries. A pivotal change occurred in 1865 when a

Swiss psychiatrist, Wilhelm Griesinger, asserted that, because most

nerve cells were in the brain, all mental problems must be brain

problems. In other words, the mind was the brain and the software

was really hardware.

> It helps to understand other influences at work at the

time " experimental psychology " was born. Most significant was

Nietzsche, an influential German philosopher, who was busy

proclaiming that God was dead and the age of nihilism had begun

(nihilism, a rejection of morality and religion, the belief that

life is pointless and human values are worthless. This was followed

by a political movement in late 19th-century Russia that espoused

terrorism and assassination, and ultimately led to Communism in that

country).

>

> The concept of a field of study (psyche-ology) that denies the

validity of the very field itself, is a challenging position to

hold, akin to an auto mechanic denying the existence of the

combustion engine. It is certainly an interesting approach to

formulating a science. The nebulous nature of things spiritual and

mental, however, lends itself to a trusting acceptance of any who

would stand and say, " I am an Authority. "

>

> Thus it was that Wundt's experimental psychology, followed in the

late 1890s by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, began a largely

unchallenged " science " that has moved into every facet of our

society today. Freud, whose claims that man's behavior was the

result of sexual repressions and that man's neuroses were caused by

his morale codes, was instrumental in popularizing and forwarding

the new " science, " as he called it. He also rejected religion

as " obsolete, " a collection of superstitions and the " universal

obsession neurosis. " Unfortunately, he neither conducted experiments

nor published his findings, two critical requirements in any science.

>

> Freud did publish six case histories during his fifty-six years of

psychoanalyzing, all of which had failed to make any real

improvement (even though he claimed five had). The cocaine that he

sniffed, injected and smoked could have influenced Freud's thought

processes. He claimed cocaine cured his depression and he promoted

its benefits to others. Freud suffered from psychosomatic illnesses

and was convinced his competitors meant to harm him. His theories

(many of which he lifted from others without credit) were so complex

that his followers relied upon him for interpretation. Anyone asking

for proof of his theories he dismissed as psychologically impaired

for " resisting " his ideas, yet Freud himself expressed doubts that

psychoanalysis worked in his paper entitled Analysis, Terminable and

Interminable. Incidentally, eight of his associates killed

themselves. Hailed as the grandfather of psychology, Freud continues

to be a model for psychs today.

>

> Whatever Freud was doing, it was not a science. Physics is a

science. There is only one theory of gravity, for instance, amply

demonstrated in fact and with no dissenting opinions. Today,

the " science " of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis has grown

into no less than two hundred and fifty different theories about the

mind, and none able to cure anything according to those

practitioners willing to be honest. What a mess our cars would be in

if the million mechanics around the country each had a differing

opinion about how to fix a blown gasket. And if the National

Association of Mechanics claimed blown gaskets were not susceptible

to any remedies, but that another government grant of $50 billion

was vital for research purposes, if cars were to continue on the

road.

>

> Assuming, however, that the good German professors had chanced

upon the real nature of man-an animal without spirit, in whose brain

resided the entire capabilities of the mind-then over a century of

hard work by hundreds of thousands of psychs should have wrought

some significant improvement in man's mental health and general

condition.

>

> Strange, therefore, that psychs are claiming that 48% of people

today between the ages of 15 and 54 have some mental illness. The

figure used to be 0.1% of all ages, in the mid-1800s, before psychs

started to manufacture the myth of mental illness. If a police chief

offered crime statistics like this, he would be out of office,

together with the mayor.

>

> Another oddity is that the first edition of the Diagnostic and

Statistical Manual (DSM), the psychs' definitive list of mental

illnesses, identified 112 of them in 1952; the fourth edition in

1994 listed 370 mental illnesses. One would be justified in

wondering how such an exponential rise in insanity could occur

within just two generations.

>

> Well, each new malady is added to the DSM by a show of hands-how

many among the psychs at a meeting agree with the existence of a

malady proposed verbally by one of their peers. As Dr. Renee

Garfinkel, a psychologist, noted: " The low level of intellectual

effort was shocking.... Diagnoses were developed by majority vote on

the level we would choose a restaurant. 'You feel like Italian. I

feel like Chinese. So let's go to a cafeteria.' Then it's typed into

a computer. " Where do the ideas come from? Robert Spitzer, chairman

of the DSM-IV committee, thought up " self-defeating personality

disorder " on a fishing trip and persuaded his colleagues to include

the disorder in DSM-IV.

>

> Bear in mind, therefore, when looking for some explanation for

this rise in " mental illnesses, " that it is only when a

mental " illness " is listed in the DSM that psychs can bill insurance

companies for treating the " diseases, " invariably with drugs. What

other maladies were added most recently? Try " Math

Disorder, " " Shopping Disorder, " and to anyone who objects to any of

the diagnoses that psychs can make and the requisite " treatment, "

there's the catch-all, " Non-compliance with treatment disorder. "

> Psychs are apparently unable to differentiate between an idea and

a reality, because they believe that by coining disease-sounding

terms, the diseases then exist. In DSM IV, psychs do not distinguish

between mental and physical " disorders. " If a child keeps missing

the ball in the ball park and this upsets the child, the parent or

the teacher, the child is said to have " developmental coordination

disorder " and is administered Ritalin or Prozac instead of being

coached to keep his eye on the ball, etc.

>

> Not all psychiatrists are so naïve as to fall for the DSM,

however. In fact, an international poll of 150 mental health

specialists in London during 2001 voted the DSM to be one of the ten

worst psychiatric papers. And medical doctors, most of whom still

believe that a thorough physical exam should be undertaken before

any assumption is made that irrational behavior is mental in origin,

are not impressed with the DSM, either. Dr. Dennis Dorman, member of

the Royal College of Physicians of the UK, described the DSM

as " ...nothing but an extended racket furnishing psychiatry a pseudo-

scientific aura. The perpetrators are, of course, feeding at the

public trough " ($6 billion to the US National Institute of Mental

Health [NIMH] for psychiatric research in 1995 alone, for instance.).

>

> Fraud by Any Other Name

> If psychiatry started off on the wrong foot in denying the

spirituality of man as its basic premise, then it went seriously

awry, beginning in the 1960s, when it encroached on the field of

neurology-an actual science that deals with the diagnosis and

treatment of physical abnormalities and diseases of the brain. If

part of the brain is physically damaged, neurology deals with that

as a physical problem. Up to that time, psychiatry was meant to

psychoanalyze (and render tractable with its other punishment-based

restraining and quieting techniques-see below) those patients who

had no physical problems but who were behaving irrationally.

>

> But psychiatrists realized in the 1960s that they could create a

vast " market " and achieve their goals of social control (see later)

by redefining behavioral problems as physical illnesses resulting

from chemical imbalances in the brain (the problem) and offering

drugs to bring about balance (the solution). By redefining more and

more peculiarities of human behavior as " diseases, " it would be

possible to have the entire population of the world buying these

drugs-even those who had nothing wrong with them other than a

disagreement with this strategy, because they could be labeled as

being in denial and therefore chemically imbalanced.

>

> The pharmaceutical industry was quick to support this new theory

that emotional and behavioral problems were diseases of the brain

due to a " chemical imbalance. " The problem with this theory being

that legitimate medicine requires the identification of physical

symptoms to diagnose a disease, and none have been found for any of

the 374 Diseases listed in DSM IV after decades of research with

billions of dollars of tax payer and pharmaceutical company monies.

Additionally, no tests exist to determine the chemical status of a

person's brain while he is living.

>

> But this doesn't discourage psychs from fraudulently misdiagnosing

tens of millions of people as having these " diseases. " Or

pharmaceutical companies from making psychiatric drugs to treat

these made-up diseases.

>

> What principle do psychiatrists use to determine who needs these

drugs? What principle do they use to determine rational versus

irrational behavior? It is called the " normative model, " meaning

that majority behavior is considered normal, and anyone who falls

short or exceeds this majority behavior is considered abnormal

(true, by definition) and therefore unhealthy or insane (an

illogical conclusion). So if the majority acts irrationally, then

anyone being rational would be irrational. So much for psychiatric

logic, but it gets worse.

>

> Enter the DSM shopping list, in which everyday issues and

difficulties are redefined as mental illness, and we find

psychiatrists have managed to create a new majority that

is " mentally ill. " Yet majority behavior is sane according to

psychiatric theory-so we find psychiatric logic contradicting

itself. The better way to determine sanity, of course, as well as

mental difficulties, is the use of reason, common sense and ethics-

the ability to act rationally in a manner that supports the well-

being of the majority involved in any given situation.

>

> If psychiatrists resort to abstruse and obtuse logic to justify

their actions, they are not shy when it comes to altering the facts

when it serves their cause, but is it science? Consider their key

claim that a particular neurotransmitter causes a specific reaction

and is localized to one part of the brain. This then justifies the

industry use of SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors),

which they claim to have fine-tuned to a specific location of the

brain in order to inhibit a specific function of that brain (let's

just assume that a particular area of the brain determines thought

and function, even though it has not been proven).

>

> What's the truth? Brain cells form molecules by combining whatever

atoms and smaller molecules they can, and spitting them across the

cleft between cells, to stimulate the next cell. In effect, there

are thousands of different types of molecules in use, not a handful

as psychiatrists claim.

>

> An analogy would be psychiatrists claiming they had discovered

man's natural diet to be chocolate, and insisting that chocolate

provides all the nutrients one needs. Then insisting that everybody

eat only chocolate and, for good measure, teaming up with the makers

of chocolates to produce pricey chocolate in a pill. Or as one

student (who abandoned the profession during his grad school

training) said more succinctly, it is like trying to " perform

delicate microsurgery on a field mouse by flying overhead in a

helicopter and dropping machetes under conditions of heavy wind. "

>

> For anyone who imagines psychiatric drugs actually do any good,

consider the 2002 study by psychologists Irving Kirsch and Thomas

Moore published in the e-journal of the American Psychological

Association. They reviewed 47 research test-studies submitted to the

FDA for approval of antidepressants including Prozac, Paxil, and

Zoloft. Their study showed that sugar pills produced better results

than these drugs. The manufacturers make over $6 billion a year from

the American public for these particular sugar pills-which unlike

real sugar pills, also create violent behavior, and psychosis with

withdrawal.

>

> To show how psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies have teamed up

to create a cash cow, let's consider a very SAD story: Social

Anxiety Disease was invented by psychiatrists to give shyness

a " scientific label " in 1997. Fifty mentions were made in the media

of this SAD condition in 1997 and 1998, but in 1999, one billion

media mentions occurred. Ninety-six percent of these also happened

to say that Paxil was the only FDA-approved medication that could

treat SAD. Curioser and curioser, until the Washington Post reported

on July 16, 2001, that the manufacturer of Paxil, Glaxo SmithKline,

had paid Cohn & Wolfe, a public relations agency, to coordinate a

multimillion-dollar marketing and advertising campaign, to " inform

thousands of people who previously did not know they were suffering

from the disorder, and spurring many to seek needed help. " Cohn &

Wolfe told the media that it was speaking for doctors and nonprofits-

not the pharmaceutical company that was paying its bills. Such

altruism is not reflected, however, in either Cohn & Wolfe's annual

reports, in which they make it clear they are in the business of

marketing, not public health, nor Glaxo SmithKline's 2000 annual

report, in which shareholders read that Paxil had become Number One

for new retail prescriptions in the huge SSRI market throughout the

US during 2000.

>

> This kind of PR, marketing and advertising is false, and the Dutch

government at least has started to tighten the screws: The

Netherlands Advertisement Code Commission ruled in August 2002 that

the country's Brain Foundation can not claim that Attention Deficit

Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological disease or brain

dysfunction, and ordered the Foundation to cease such false claims

in their advertising.

> When talking fraud, let's also consider the story of Prozac: In

1978, Eli Lilly, the manufacturer, knew Prozac caused suicidal and

homicidal thoughts. The German government refused to approve Prozac

in 1984 because trial results showed sixteen suicide attempts (two

of which succeeded) in a group of people selected precisely because

they were known not to be suicidal. Lilly withheld this from the FDA

when it obtained approval for Prozac in the US. Lilly then spent

huge amounts of money defending itself over murders and suicides

committed under the influence of Prozac because " Lilly can go down

the tubes if we lose Prozac " (Leigh Thompson, a chief scientist at

Lilly). The FDA's records show 28,623 adverse reactions reported,

1,089 of which were suicides with a further 1,885 suicide attempts.

As the Government Accounting Office estimates between 1 and 10% of

adverse reactions are reported to the FDA, Prozac suicides may be as

high as 108,900, with attempts at a whopping 188,500. Recent studies

estimate Prozac deaths in excess of 50,000 and 7- 10% of individuals

taking Prozac experiencing some adverse reaction.

>

> In its efforts to hide the truth, Lilly pressured its scientists

in 1990 to alter records of physician experiences with Prozac,

changing " suicide attempt " to " overdose " and " suicidal thoughts "

to " depression. " The company settled most of the two hundred law

suits over Prozac out of court, with the terms kept confidential,

and in 2002, in promoting its new version of Prozac, stated it would

not produce " suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation...one of its more

significant side effects " -an admission made only because it would

help with sales of the new product. With free, unsolicited and

unprescribed samples of Prozac being sent in the mail, Eli Lilly's

motivation and ethic level are plain.

>

> Yet even psychologists can see through the fraud: Jonathan

Abramowitz, a psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,

Minnesota, who himself worked on DSM IV, warned " social anxiety is

not a chemical problem with the brain. I see it as a problem with

normal thinking and behaviors that have gone awry. "

>

> David Kaiser, one of several psychiatrists with the integrity to

blow the whistle on his own kind, stated in 1996 " modern psychiatry

has yet to convincingly prove the genetic/biologic cause of any

single mental illness... Patients have been diagnosed with 'chemical

imbalances' despite the fact that no test exists to support such a

claim, and...there is no real conception of what a correct chemical

balance would look like. "

>

> These marketing strategies may make psychs and psychiatric-drugs

companies lots of money, but they also seriously compromise the

survival of mankind as a result of physical problems left untreated

and the widespread ingestion of toxic chemicals that result in a

host of physical problems and mental side effects ranging from

stupidity to insanity, violence to suicide. One study showed that

83% of those referred for mental treatment by clinics and social

workers were found to have an undiagnosed physical illness. Yet

psychiatrists do not conduct searching physical examinations. They

merely consult a checklist of behaviors produced by the mental

disorders section of the World Health Organization, and label and

prescribe psychotropic drugs for diseases they know to have no basis

in fact. This violates the informed consent rights of patients and

is medical malpractice.

>

> Perhaps the difficulties that psychs face stem from a fundamental

confusion: That the software (mind) is just hardware (brain) and the

end user (the spirit) does not exist and so by default is just

software (which is just hardware). But one thing is certain: Their

discipline is based on no science whatsoever. Not one single

detectable or diagnosable physical abnormality has been attributed

to any one of these mental " diseases. "

>

> When psychs say that Ritalin, Paxil, Haldol or any of the many

psych drugs will remedy abnormalities/pathologies/chemical

imbalances within the brains of the children who are having

difficulties in school, they are implying they have detected such an

imbalance and know exactly that it is remedied, let us say, by

Paxil. The problem is that no such studies or findings have ever

been made. This level of science is the same as that propounded by

the purveyors of quack medicine 150 years ago. Some things never

change, and we still find people falling for it. What has changed is

that (a) the government funds it, (b) it is not just being directed

at thinking adults but babies and children, under penalty of law for

refusing to cooperate, and © the potions are toxic.

>

> It is also completely unethical, in that psychiatrists and the

pharmaceutical lobbies spend billions to create the illusion that

they are the all-knowing scientists working under the mantle

of " professional help " while their true motives are personal profit

without any regard for the truth, happiness and welfare of those in

their care.

>

> It must be frustrating for professionals to invest so many years

of their lives into what turns out to be a scam. Such frustration

may well have as its root cause a reliance on opinions in the place

of facts to build a " science " . It's the sticky question of results.

Take the lobotomy, for instance. This practice originated from one

case history, in which a crowbar blew through the prefrontal lobes

of Pheneas Gage during a rock-blasting operation in the US in 1847.

He survived the accident, it is true, but nowhere in the case

history is there mention of any improvement in his condition. On the

contrary, he became extremely rude and anti-social.

>

> Psych Walter Freeman introduced prefrontal lobotomies (hammering

an ice pick through the eye sockets and using it to sever the nerves

behind the forehead) to the U.S., claiming that 25% of the patients

could be " considered as adjusting at the level of a domestic invalid

or household pet. " One hundred thousand people in the United States

have received the procedure since. Still no record exists of anyone

being improved by them, quite the opposite in fact, as a vegetative

state is the inevitable result, as well as a 20% death/suicide rate,

brain infections (50%), epileptic seizures, and loss of bowel and

bladder control. The spirited Hollywood beauty, Frances Farmer, was

finally broken after a lobotomy by Dr. Freeman-a singularly

inappropriate surname it would appear.

>

> A Lobotomy Success

> " I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by

tainted food, " recalled Frances Farmer, famous Hollywood actress. " I

was chained in padded cells, strapped to straitjackets and half

drowned in ice baths. " These baths consisted of being stripped naked

and thrown into a tub of icy water for six to eight hours at a time

over a period of several months. She was subjected to an extensive

course of electroshock treatments and ninety insulin shock

treatments, " a brutal psychiatric torture that stuns the body in

addition to inflicting extensive brain damage. "

>

> Farmer was no longer able to concentrate or remember lines. She

realized the treatments were " systematically destroying the only

thing she had ever been able to hold onto in life-her faith in her

artistic creativity. "

>

> Because her spirit was not yet broken, the psychiatrists

incarcerated her again with criminals and the mentally retarded

crowded together, their meals thrown on the dirt floor to be fought

over. Farmer was again subjected to regular and continuous

electroshocks. She was prostituted to soldiers from the local

military base and raped and abused by the orderlies.

>

> " One of the most vivid recollections of some veterans of the

institution would be the sight of Frances Farmer being held down by

orderlies and raped by drunken gangs of soldiers. " She was also used

as an experimental subject for various drugs such as Thorazine.

>

> Still Farmer remained indomitable, until one day Dr. Walter

Freeman treated her. As her biographer William Arnold said of the

operation, " He put electrodes to her temples and gave her

electroshock until she passed out. Then he lifted her left eyelid

and plunged the ice-pick-shaped instrument under her eyeball and

into her brain. " Afterwards, Arnold continues, " She would no longer

exhibit the restless, impatient mind and the erratic creative

impulses of a difficult and complex artist. She would no longer

resist authority or provoke controversy. She would no longer be a

threat to anyone. "

>

> Yet Ms. Farmer, who ended her days as a hotel clerk, still had

strength enough to say: " Never console yourself into believing that

the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it

did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors

as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be

moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still

imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions. "

>

> The lobotomy was touted by psychs as a " miracle cure " in the same

way that electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) was promoted in 1938 and

psychotropic drugs are promoted today. Prozac is meant to cure

everything from weight gain to jealousy and pulling out ones hair-a

list that sounds as convincing as the pitch for the potions quack

doctors used to peddle a century ago.

>

> What if psychs were not as advertised, civilization's last line of

defense against global insanity and barbarism? What if they really

were the cause of the craziness around us that they insist

governments pay them handsomely for " preventing " ? What if they were

not the rescuing cavalry but the curse of humanity? What if psychs

really were the greatest hoax in the last eight hundred years?

>

> The director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, Rex

Cowdry, certainly threw his weight behind this conclusion in 1995

when he said: " We do not know the causes (of psychiatric disorders).

We don't have methods of 'curing' these illnesses yet. " A 1999

Surgeon General report stated " No single gene has been found to be

responsible for any specific mental disorder....There is no definite

lesion, laboratory test or abnormality in brain tissue that can

identify the [mental] illness. "

>

> Consider the words of Norman Sartorius, who, as president of the

World Psychiatric Association, announced to fellow psychiatrists in

1994, " The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure

the mentally ill is gone. In the future, the mentally ill will have

to learn to live with their illness. " If a mechanic made similar

confessions, would you leave your car with him?

>

> If these two gentlemen are being honest, then we have to assume

that the other pronunciamentos in the media by psychs of every color

are nothing more than high-sounding language with no substance

behind them. Those millions of victims, those billions of dollars

and hours on research and treatment-they are all a pretense based on

a pretend science.

>

> Technology that Quiets or Kills

> Relying on the theory that man is an animal without any spiritual

existence, whose mind is really his brain, then it is easy to see

how this " science " produced the three key technologies that it did.

>

> What psychs do today is primarily package any observable behavior,

reclassify and label it with words that make it sound like a mental

disease, and then prescribe a drug(s) that have many bad side

effects listed in the warning labels, symptoms that psychs often use

to describe a mental " illness. " For instance, the Physician's Desk

reference includes side effects for Ritalin and Dexedrine of

psychotic episodes. This results in more business for the psychs

with increased dosages of ever-stronger drugs. For the patients,

there is stupefaction, toxicity and brain and central nervous system

damage-more people were dying from prescription drugs by 1989 than

from street drugs. For society, there is increased crime (560%

increase between 1960 and 1991), a drug epidemic, lowered

production, and tragedies like the Columbine High and Red Lake

Middle School shootings.

>

> A psychiatrist, Loren Mosher, resigned from the American

Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1998 on the grounds

that " psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug

companies. The APA could not continue without the pharmaceutical

company support of meetings, symposia, workshops, journal

advertising, grand rounds luncheons, unrestricted educational grants

etc. etc.... We condone and promote the widespread overuse and

misuse of toxic chemicals that we know have serious long term

effects... I want no part of a psychiatry of oppression and social

control... Is psychiatry a hoax as practiced today? Unfortunately,

the answer is mostly yes. "

>

> But a lucrative one internationally. " Antipsychotic " drug sales

alone totaled $12 billion in 2003, despite study after study showing

patients worsening from their use.

>

> The second technology is the lobotomy, which was replaced

partially in 1954 with the introduction of the drug Thorazine,

otherwise known as the chemical lobotomy. 300 surgical lobotomies

are still conducted annually in the United States each year.

>

> The third technology is shock therapy, mostly ECT these days-the

application of up to 460 volts to the temples of a patient, who is

drugged to prevent bones breaking during the attendant convulsions.

ECT is applied to create a grand mal epileptic seizure and permanent

brain damage from oxygen deprivation. It results in memory loss (82%

of patients in one large 1990 Californian study), learning

disability, disorientation, brain shrinkage, coma, and sometimes

death due to hemorrhaging or choking. The " reduction in intelligence

is an important factor in the curative process, " according to one

American psychiatrist (Abraham Myerson, 1942). Dr. Ugo Cerletti

pioneered ECT in Italy in 1938 after seeing how pigs were

administered electric shock just before being slaughtered. He

admitted in 1970 that it ought to be abolished. Yet 110,000 people

still receive six to twelve such treatments of ECT each year in the

U.S., costing tax payers and insurance companies $5 billion annually

and 300 of these people their lives (while earning psychs up to

$3,600 per hour to administer). A study of 340 depressed patients by

ECT proponent, Dr. Harold A. Sackeim, showed that not one person

received any lasting benefit from the treatment. The same holds true

of the other shock therapies (insulin and metrazol) and the " latest

advances " in shock therapy, TMS, VNS and DBS.

>

> While the non-drug techniques mentioned above have fallen out of

favor today, they were claimed to be the highly effective during

their heyday, with no evidence to show any real benefits for those

patients who were administered. Does this sound familiar with regard

to the latest psychiatric breakthrough-psychotropic drugs to cure

mental " diseases " ?

>

> So let's review the typical reactions to psychotropic drugs:

>

> * Minor tranquilizers can cause lethargy, confusion, sexual

dysfunction, hallucination, severe depression, insomnia and muscle

tremors. Withdrawing cold turkey can result in seizures and death.

> * Antidepressants can cause drowsiness, lethargy, difficulty

thinking, memory problems, delusions, seizures, fever, liver damage,

heart attacks and strokes.

> * SSRIs result in withdrawal symptoms in 50% of takers, sexual

dysfunction in 60%, and seizures, hearing loss, paranoia and suicide.

>

> These psychiatric solutions all address the " hardware. " But just

like any computer, mental issues people face are almost all problems

relating to the software, not the hardware. If every time your

computer crashed, customer service's pat response was to send a

technician to apply a few extra volts to the hardware or douse it in

some chemical, how much use would you have of your computer?

> Legitimizing and Institutionalizing the Scam

> German psychologists introduced experimental psychology into a

world that was ignorant of matters of the mind, but which conceived

man to have a spiritual component. Like all early movements,

psychology had some converts among a majority who considered it

either absurd or unscientific. Influential American devotees visited

Germany, however, and returned to the United States to introduce the

theories into schools. German professors came to the U.S., too,

exporting their technology and theories.

>

> Ernst Rudin, professor of psychiatry at Munich and director of the

Department of Heredity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, for

instance, visited the U.S. in 1930. He was praised by the leaders of

the Carnegie Foundation and supported financially by a large

Rockefeller grant. Rudin was the architect of Nazi Germany's

sterilization law. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute is the place where,

until 1990, psychs kept the brains of hundreds of children for

psychiatric research-children murdered and dismembered by psychs in

the Nazi concentration camps.

>

> By the thirties, Hollywood was legitimizing the wisdom of psychs

and by the forties, government was funding psychiatric programs as

the solution to controlling the otherwise independent and unruly

minds of its more boisterous subjects. The infamous-but-now-

forgotten Alaska Bill was just a vote or two shy of passing in the

mid-Fifties, which would have given psychs the power to lock up and

electrocute anyone in mental health camps in Alaska, without

recourse. The CIA used psychs in an attempt to control minds for

their own ends, continuing the research undertaken by psychs in Nazi

concentration camps. Today, we have Homeland Security potentially

providing the atmosphere and enforcement mechanism to edge the Land

of the Free closer to such psychiatric-controlled gulags once more.

>

> These facts listed above may paint an alarming picture with a

broad brush, but the words below of the founders of the World

Federation of Mental Health, G. Brock Chisholm and J.R. Rees, show

plainly that psychs are engaged in breaking down any sense of social

and moral responsibility and creating an ignorant, drug-addicted

society that is increasingly in turmoil. The WFMH was established in

1948 and runs National Associations of Mental Health, which in turn

set about the establishment of psych facilities, agendas and

programs in each country.

>

> First of all, the approach psychs were to take was outlined by

Rees in a 1940 speech: " Public life, politics and industry should

all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to

infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I

think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of

fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to

progress and spread, we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity....

Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.' "

>

> This goal was executed subsequently in the U.S. by four

psychiatrists (Robert Felix, William Menninger, Francis Braceland

and Jack Ewalt), who wrote the basis of a legislative bill that was

signed into law mid-1946, creating the National Institute of Mental

Health (NIMH) and a national mental health program funded by

taxpayer dollars. It was and is the only branch of medicine to have

its training subsidized by the taxpayer. NIMH was empowered to carry

out psychiatric research, fund psych training and assist states with

community-based prevention programs. The three-phase program for

world mental health development called for:

>

> 1. Setting up psych institutions

> 2. Establishing community out-patient centers, one for every

100,000 population

> 3. Parental and pre-marital guidance, child and welfare services

and the introduction of psych programs into schools.

>

> In 1963, Congress authorized $150 million to build the centers and

in 1965, a further $735 million to staff them. The price tab for

these centers rose dramatically, from $140 million in 1969 to $11

billion today, an increase thousands of times greater that the

tenfold rise in the number of people using these centers. Part of

the reason for this was found in a 1990 Congressional committee: up

to $100 million was going straight into the pockets of the psychs.

And what are the psychs doing in these centers for the $150 billion

of taxpayer money that has been given them? Giving neuroleptic drugs

(chemical lobotomies) automatically to all patients. The result is

the homeless people one sees wandering around muttering to

themselves or worse (90% of these patients in one 1999 survey were

found to be depressed), and psychiatric drug companies with fat

coffers (2003 sales of $8 billion in the US for anti-psychotic

drugs).

>

> NIMH has funded the training of psychiatrists, psychologists,

psychiatric social workers and nurses, and public health officers

for years. Today, we find psychiatric theory and influence at every

turn: in schools, hospitals and doctor's offices, businesses, media

and entertainment, retirement homes, courtrooms, and the list goes

on. Let's look, therefore, at the effect of some key psych programs:

>

> No Black and White, Just Dirty Grey

> G. Brock Chisholm stated in 1945, " The re-interpretation and

eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has

been the basis of child training...are the belated objectives of

practically all effective psychotherapy. "

> In keeping with this goal, psychiatrists began to insert

themselves into the legal system in the US and had the carte blanche

they sought with the Durham decision of 1954, which placed

psychiatrists in the court systems in the country, setting the

precedent for the rest of the world. The same judge who made that

ruling (David Bazelon) then made another one in 1966 that gave

psychs the right to enforce treatment.

>

> Since then, they have brought about the wide use of the insanity

defense, redefining criminals as victims of their past, rather than

responsible for their own actions. Psychs have also brought about

the spectacle of conflicting psychiatric testimony that forwards the

interests of whoever is paying them. The APA itself filed a

statement in the US Supreme Court admitting that

psychiatric " predictions are fundamentally of very low reliability

and...irrelevant " in court. Yet psych mumbo-jumbo, and reference to

DSM IV as the authoritative source, still occur throughout the

court and prison systems.

>

> Psychs in court predict whether a defendant is a danger to

society. Yet they hit an 85% error record according to one study

printed in the Michigan Bar Journal in 1994. And the vice president

of the Japanese Psychiatric Association stated categorically in 2002

that it was impossible to predict a defendant's dangerousness....

>

> Psychs counsel the police and criminals both. The result is three

hundred police commit suicide each year, 30% higher than the

national average. And 80% of criminals end up in prison again-a 1974

study in St. Louis, showed that 82% of those arrested had received

psychiatric treatments prior to committing the crime. Psychs focus

on giving inmates powerful psychotropic drugs despite numerous

studies linking violence and aggression to these drugs; and on

running counseling programs. A study of one such program by the

California Dept of Corrections, showed 78% of parolees back in

prison within three years.

>

> What has been the result of this psych insinuation into the world

of crime and justice? Violent crime is up 67% between 1975 and 2000

in the US, 100% in France, 145% in England and 410% in Spain, and so

the list goes on.

>

> Turning Schools into Mental Health Clinics

> Perhaps more tragic still is the encroachment of psych theories

and practices in our schools over the last century, particularly the

last thirty-five years.

>

> Education was first undermined in the U.S. when psychology courses

were introduced in American teaching colleges in 1899. The " Father

of American Education, " John Dewey, wrote in his School and Society

that same year: " There is no obvious social motive for the acquiring

of learning. It is one of the greatest mistakes of education to make

reading and writing constitute the bulk of the schoolwork for the

first two years. The ultimate problem of all education is to

coordinate the psychological and social factors...and schools should

take an active part in determining the social order of the future. "

Edward Thorndike created Educational Psychology in 1903. In his 1929

book, he stated that the three Rs, phonetics, multiplication tables

and formal writing movements were wasteful, with arithmetic,

language and history being intrinsically of little value. Psychs

also decided to remove the " stress " factors in education, such as

academic curriculums, disciplinary procedures and school failure.

These leaders de-emphasized academics and focused instead on

changing behavior, attitudes and feelings.

>

> Values Clarification programs were introduced that have gone under

several different names since, most recently being called Outcome-

Based Education (OBE). These carefully teach children that morals

are defunct. The psychs thereby shifted the emphasis from teaching

students to controlling and molding them, thus making it more

difficult for the students to learn, and opening them up to being

difficult students who then " needed " drugs to behave properly.

>

> Psych influence in our schools was assured in 1965 with the

passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, providing the

funding for psych programs, testing and personnel in schools. The

psychs introduced a plethora of labels to describe typical child

behavior (such as fidgeting) as well as redefining difficulty with

math or reading (DSM Code # 315.1 and 315 respectively) as " mental

disorders " rather than the lack of adequate teaching (because

teachers were increasingly being redirected from teaching to

controlling). In effect, psychs turned schools into mental health

clinics and education into a mental problem that chemicals (drugs)

were meant to remedy.

>

> By 1969, there were 455 psychiatrists in schools, a number that

had bloated to 16,146 by 1992. By 1994, psychs and their cohorts in

and around schools almost outnumbered teachers.

> Pharmaceutical companies have financed " grassroots " groups such as

CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD), who received $1 million from

the manufacturer of Ritalin to create an apparent ground swell of

public demand for psychiatric drug usage in schools, and so help

bring about Title One of the Federal Code, Children With

Disabilities Act and the Supplemental Security Income program in

1991. These provided schools with up to $650 annually for each child

diagnosed with a " disorder, " giving schools " an incentive to

identify more kids with special education needs, " according to an

Education Department official.

>

> There has been a 1,100% increase between 1987 and 2001, for

instance, in the diagnosis of ADHD in American children, with 20.6

million prescriptions written in 2001. Compare this to the

conclusion the world's experts in ADHD reached at a 1998

conference: " Our knowledge about the cause or causes of ADHD remains

largely speculative. "

>

> In 1996, $15 billion was spent in the U.S. on managing the various

psychiatric disorders that children were suddenly manifesting. The

same is occurring in other wealthy countries: Germany saw the number

of stimulants prescribed to children jump from 7 million in 1995 to

31 million in 1999. In 1992, 2,000 such prescriptions were written

in the UK, and by the year 2,000, 186,000 had been written. This

money, of course, goes into psych and drug manufacturers' coffers.

>

> When the US Department of Education investigated what was

happening to the $28 billion being funneled to psychiatrists for

their " special education " programs for those labeled by

psychiatrists as suffering from " learning disabilities, " the

Department discovered 40% of the students had simply not been taught

to read.

>

> How has this approach to educating U.S. school children affected

them? Over six million of our primary-through-high-school children

are now on mind-altering drugs (17 million worldwide as of 2004),

compared to one million on street drugs. As one observant parent of

one such child noted, " The drugs rob these kids of their

personality. They become quiet little robots. " Except, that is, for

the 4% of users (80,000 children) that psychiatrist Peter Breggin,

author of " Toxic Psychiatry, " reports are prompted to violent

behavior.

>

> Matthew Cohen, president of Children and Adults with ADHD in

Landover, MD has the pat answer to this violence, however: " The

medication doesn't produce the violence. The more accurate thing to

say is that the medication was insufficient to prevent it. "

Interesting, as the DEA reports 80% of amphetamine use in the US is

for ADHD, with production increasing 3,750% between 1993 and 2000,

In November 2000, 19 million prescriptions were made out to one-in-

five of our school children. Ritalin, which " shares many of the

pharmacological effects of ... cocaine " according to a 1995 DEA

report, but is longer lasting, goes for up to $10 a pill on the

black market on school campuses.

>

> The fact that teen suicides have tripled since the 1960s (second

highest cause of death in this age bracket) can be laid squarely at

the door of psychiatric drug pushers, as well as their twisted sense

of education in providing " death education " -stories of death,

murder, suicide, and asking children what they want written on their

tombstones.

>

> School children murdering others in cold blood have been in the

news much over the last few years. No fewer than 1,336 children aged

13-17 years were arrested for murder in 1987. By 1992, the number

had risen to 2,829; but what of the less high-profile crimes?

> * Between 1965 and 1992, teenage drug arrests rose from 10 to 147

per 100,000 juveniles.

> * In 1992, 5,364 rapes were committed by under 18's, with 2,049 of

them by children under 15.

>

> If we look at the purpose the majority of us believe education is

meant to have-educating our children-we see equally alarming

statistics: Verbal and math SAT scores combined began dropping in

1963, and have fallen eighty points to 890. In the 1930s, three

million adults could not read because they had not been to school.

In 1990, forty million could not understand what they were reading,

or perform simple math calculations, even after a decade in school.

>

> The year 2000 National Achievement Tests showed more than two-

thirds of U.S. fourth graders were unable to read up to grade level.

Was this because they were no longer being taught how to read using

phonics, or because they really were " mentally disordered,

developmental learning types, " which is what the psychs claim,

demanding that the kids be put on psych drugs? For failing school

boards, having a purported biological reason (psych-drug

deficiencies in the brain) for an inability to read by students in

their charge is easier to face than the idea that they have

abandoned workable teaching methods in favor of behavior control and

other destructive psych-based systems. So the teachers have been

turned into amateur psychologists in pinning labels on their

students and turning them over to the psych/pharmaceutical machine

that has been built into our schools. Note that the intent is not to

target teachers: like everyone else in society, they trusted the

psych profession.

>

> Weakening the Family

> If the psych agenda is really to weaken the individual and make

him more controllable, then the last thing one would want is a

strong family to bolster his confidence and morale. So it was that

G. Brock Chisholm pronounced the following in London in 1948: " The

family is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health

and hence, should be weakened, if possible, so as to free

individuals and especially children from the coercion of family

life. "

>

> Today, Social Service bureaucrats in the U.S. have the power to

declare parents guilty of child abuse and to take their children

away until the parents can prove their own innocence.

>

> The result of the psych agenda over the last century in

particular, has been more than disastrous for the family:

>

> 1. Divorces in the U.S. have increased from 6% to 33% of marriages

over the last century, tripling since 1950

> 2. Unmarried couples have increased 700% since 1970

> 3. 15-19 year-old pregnancies increased 310% between 1960 and 1991

> 4. Pregnancies in under-15s increased 140%.

> 5. 666,000 children were born to single girls in 1982, four times

as many as in 1950.

> 6. Single mums increased 367% between 1970 and 1982.

>

> It seems that apart from destroying all concepts of right and

wrong and undermining the family as a unit, psychs have introduced

sex education into schools that encourages promiscuity and

perversion. As the answer to one question about when to engage in

sex stated, " Do what you like and when you want. Your emotions are

what count. "

>

> Parental discipline has been redefined as " child abuse. " Parental

concern for the upbringing of their children has been renamed " over-

protectiveness, " and an enforcing of outmoded religious and moral

values. " Tolerating " whatever the child does is now a positive

parental trait. Hilary Clinton stated as much in her book, " It Takes

a Village. "

>

> Subverting Religion

> In keeping with Freud's dim view of religion, G. Brock Chisholm

stated: " To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from

the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions,

national patriotism and religious dogmas. " Chisholm and Rees

targeted religion therefore for " mental health orientation, "

especially through the training in psychology of the clergy.

> Knowing this hitherto hidden purpose, it is ironic yet

understandable that we find churches looking to psychs for training

on the mind and the " true nature of man. " The result of this trust

has been a severe decline in church membership and activity:

>

> * By 1952, 83% of 109 seminaries and graduate theological schools

in the U.S. offered one or more psych courses.

> * By 1961, 9,000 clergymen had taken psych-based " clinical

pastoral " counseling classes. The clergy were referring parishioners

to the community mental health centers.

> * While in 1960, 42% of parishioners consulted their clergy for

help and only 18% went to psychs , by 1991, 38% were going to psychs.

> * Church membership dropped 25% in the US between 1961 and 1991.

>

> The pedophile scandal in the United States that has so damaged the

Catholic Church can also be laid in part at the door of the many

psychs who ran completely unworkable rehabilitation programs on

pedophile priests, and who, as a body, have made sexual crimes into

mental diseases to be " treated. "

>

> Captive Audiences

> The elderly with health insurance coverage have been prime targets

for the psych industry. Fraud has been rampant, as might be

expected, and Medicare finally barred eighty Community Mental Health

Centers from serving the elderly and disabled in 1998. It's just too

bad that 73,000 elderly die each year from adverse reactions to the

psych drugs they are administered.

>

> Psychs also have a captive audience in those kept in psych

hospitals, usually against their will and often under false

pretenses. Between 1950 and 1990, the number of inpatient deaths in

psychiatric hospitals in the country was almost double the total

number of deaths in every single war the U.S. has engaged in, from

the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War. Psychs filled a similar role

in Nazi Germany: of the 320,000 in-patients alive in psych hospitals

in 1939, only 40,000 remained alive in 1946. The last survivor of

the Brandenburg Havel institution, Elvira Manthey, related years

later that she and her three-year-old sister, Lisa, were declared

feeble-minded and incarcerated by a psychiatrist in 1938. Lisa died

in the gas chambers the following year.

>

> There's Money in Them 'Thar Pills

> As Canadian psychologist and author of Manufacturing Victims, Tana

Dineen, stated so succinctly recently, psychology is neither a

science nor a profession, but an industry that turns healthy people

into victims to provide itself with income. From the mouths of

Chisholm and Rees, it seems that psychs as a body have set

themselves a goal of engineering world government and social control

in the guise of helping individuals and society.

>

> How much money are we talking about? Mental health expenditures,

paid for by every taxpayer, rose almost 800% between 1970 and 1995,

to $28.6 billion per annum in the United States. As covered above,

Federal funds are provided through the U.S. National Institute of

Mental Health to state branches for " research " and to community

level programs in schools, courts, welfare agencies etc. Federal

funds are allotted to finance psych programs in our schools,

communities, the armed forces, prisons and courtrooms and the list

goes on. At $3,500 per hour for " expert court testimony " or for

administering ECT, one can guess at another motivation for becoming

a psych. For the psychiatric drug companies, life is also sweet: In

1999, the US market alone for antidepressants and " anti-psychotic' "

drugs was over $10 billion.

>

> As might be expected of a product and service that is based on

junk science, psychs create problems in society, they do not solve

them. And when the situation they are paid to remedy continues to

deteriorate, they say they need more money to solve the problem with

more drugs and re-education. Most people, from the U.S. President to

the media, have fallen for this line. In the wake of the Columbine

High shootings, the gun lobby came under attack. With the exception

of a few perceptive writers, such as Bev Eakman in the Washington

Times and Alexander Cockburn in the Los Angeles Times, none asked

why many school shooting over the last few years had been committed

by a child who was on or trying to come off psychiatric drugs with

warning labels that include suicide and violence among their side

effects.

>

> * Jeff Weise of Red Lake Middle School in Minnesota was on Prozac

when he killed 9 students, teachers and his grandfather/his

companion and then himself.

> * Eric Harris at Columbine High was on Luvox when he killed twelve

classmates and a teacher in Denver, Colorado.

> * Kip Kinkel in Springfield, Oregon was withdrawing from Prozac

when he shot 24 classmates/family members.

> * Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin

when he fired a shotgun at school.

> * 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on Prozac when she shot at fellow

students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.

> * Mitchell Johnson was taking an unspecified psych drug when he

shot at fellow students in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

> * T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old in Conyers, Georgia, was taking

Ritalin when he shot six classmates.

> * Jason Hoffman was on Effexor and Celexa when he wounded five

students at his California high school.

> * Cory Baadsgaard was on Paxil when took a rifle to his high

school and held 23 classmates hostage.

>

> Why has nobody asked why these children were on heavy drugs?

Because " everyone knows that the problem with so many kids these

days is that they are 'mentally ill' and we need more drugs to quiet

them at a younger age. " If we can just " clean up the entertainment

industry and remove all guns, " then what will we have? We will have

an entire nation on drugs, seething with an inner rage and finding

ways of killing others with whatever weapons they can find.

>

> Portrait of a Con Artist

> What kind of person is leading us down this sylvan path to the

utopia that George Orwell predicted fifty years ago? The average

psychiatrist in the US today is one among 42,000 and supported by

12,000 psychiatric hospitals.

> * He or she makes in excess of $130,000 each year (1993).

> * While they make up only 8% of the medical profession in 1985,

over 18% of physicians suspended from U.S. health insurance programs

for fraud were psychs.

> * 40% of them are sued for malpractice in the US

> * 221 received criminal convictions in 2001-an increase from 100

in 1998-53% for health care fraud and 26% for sexual crimes against

their patients. While one-in-four psychiatrists worldwide admits to

sexually abusing his or her patients, 65% of patients tell their

psychiatrist they were sexually abused by their previous

psychiatrist. In one study, 150,00 patients were found to have been

sexually abused by their psychiatrist, 5% being minors as young as

three years old. 21,000 of these patients subsequently tried to kill

themselves, 1,500 of them succeeding.

> * The largest health care fraud suit in history (for $375 million)

involved the smallest sector of healthcare-psychiatry. Fraudulent

schemes have included billing insurers for therapy given to people

already dead, for having sex with patients or letting them watch TV

or play bingo. Between $20 and $40 billion in such fraudulent

billings by the mental health industry occur in any given year.

> * Two-thirds of psychs are seriously mentally ill, according to

one study-10% attempting suicide or abusing drugs.

> * Psychotherapists manifest up to three times as many incidents of

inappropriate behavior as the people they are meant to be treating.

>

> The medical profession advanced to the degree that the responses

of practitioners were standardized and each practitioner had a

professional attitude toward his or her patients. Having psychs

assume the mantle of a professional caregiver only serves to degrade

the medical profession as a whole.

>

> The psych scam is so solidly in place that everyone from National

Public Radio to the White House pushes the psych lines, championing

such as the mental health parity and ignoring the real cause of the

school shootings. Yet these issues pale in comparison to what

happens when psychs are given free reign to operate in totalitarian

states, such as Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and even modern

China. As stated already, the powers the US government has taken

unto itself since 9/11 has moved the country further away from the

constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms that would protect

us from such government control of our lives.

>

> A Docile World Population That Can't Just Say " No! "

> The genocide we have witnessed this past century has its roots in

psychiatry. It was initially touted as racial hygiene in 1895 by its

originator, psychiatrist Alfred Ploetz. A Nazi psychiatrist summed

up the connection between psychiatry and Hitler succinctly when he

stated, " Only through the Führer did our dream of over thirty years,

that of applying racial hygiene to society, become a reality. " Of

note, psychiatrist Edmund Foster implanted Hitler during hypnosis in

1918 with a megalomaniac command that was to have equally tragic

consequences.

>

> Then again, if you were wondering about the parallels between the

old Nazi and the new Serb agenda in the 1990's, look no further than

psychiatrists Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic. Or for the

real influence behind Al-Quaida, consider that chief advisor to

Osama bin-Laden is/was psychiatrist Dr. Ayman al-Zawhariri, and that

psychologist Ali A. Mohamed trained bin-Laden's men. Or consider the

psychiatrist, Abu Hafiza, who masterminded the Madrid train bombings

in 2004.

>

> As G. Brock Chisholm stated, psychologists and psychiatrists had

to become leaders in the " planned development of a new kind of human

being. " It seems that George Orwell only had the date wrong. How so?

Because less than two decades after the date set by Orwell, the

legal, and psychiatric elements are finally in place, including a

populace being at a point where it will accept the conditions for a

compliant society controlled by psychiatric drugs. A country that

has been dumbed down with a false education cannot think for itself

when bombarded with false information about how the mind is a

physical object susceptible to drug deficiencies. According to the

UN's International Drug Control Board, 330 million doses of Ritalin

are taken each day in the U.S., compared with just 65 million in the

rest of the world. The criteria for diagnosis are so general that

virtually anyone would qualify for a prescription.

>

> By forcing or sneaking through Federal and/or state laws,

psychiatrists now have the right to examine and determine which

babies may be a threat to society and so add mint-flavored Prozac to

their formulas. As the millions of children diagnosed with fake

labels and forced onto drugs will testify, they and their parents

were cajoled or forced to take them when they ran into trouble at

school. This despite Article 33 of the 1989 UN Convention on the

Rights of the Child stating that children have the right to

protection from the " illicit use of psychotropic substances. " The

way around that, of course, is to pass a law demanding children be

forced to take psychotropic substances.

>

> That's how the use of psychotropic drugs on 2-to-4-year olds

tripled between 1991 and 1995 in the USA. A recent study at the

Michigan State University in East Lansing revealed that both Ritalin

and Prozac were being prescribed to toddlers between the ages of 1

and 3, even while Ritalin manufacturer, Novartis, states: " Warning:

sufficient data on the safety and efficacy of long term use of

Ritalin in children are not yet available. "

>

> The Oregon legislature has passed into law a bill that provides

$25 million for a " preventive mental health " screening program to

identify and pre-treat newborns who are determined to be

at " psycho/social risk. " 3,400 one-year-olds were prescribed

psychotropic drugs in France in 2001, no doubt many more by now.

>

> The Mental Health Parity efforts over the last two years are an

effort to provide unlimited funding for psychotropic drug usage

throughout the country. It is pushed heavily by The National

Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), a psych front group with

strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

>

> This parity legislation encourages doctors to assign a code from

DSM IV to their patients, so they can be paid for psychiatric drug

prescriptions. With the passage of the euphemistically

named " patient confidentiality " law in 2002, an individual (and his

heirs) has no right to see his own medical records, even though a

label of some " mental problem " will stigmatize him forever. If he is

ever arrested, applies for a sensitive job, or sues for damages

against a doctor or a drug company over unwelcome side effects, his

credibility will be compromised. Worse, he will become an easy

candidate for " civil commitment, " as in Florida's Baker Act or

California's Code 5150. Currently, one person is committed against

his or her will in the United States every 75 seconds.

>

> Civil commitment is carried out by a police officer, emergency

medical services worker, a pastor, the principal of a school or by

any medical doctor, psychologist, social worker or probation officer

(etc.), to forcibly take an individual into custody in a mental ward

or mental hospital for treatment and/or observation of a " mental,

emotional, or behavioral disorder " as found in the latest version of

the DSM of the American Psychiatric Association.

>

> Not so long ago, President Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil

Empire. It was the political entity in which citizens who disagreed

with the government were labeled mentally aberrant and imprisoned in

mental institutions until their thinking had been adjusted by psych

drugs and conditioning. It is still being done in China, where

members of the peaceful Falungong spiritual group are imprisoned in

mental hospitals. In 2004, $20 million was provided by the House

Appropriations Committee to begin the implementation of a plan drawn

up by the US President's " New Freedom on Mental Health Commission. "

The plan requires the screening of all Americans for mental illness

and the prescription of psychotropic drugs for those found to be

mentally ill when compared to DSM IV. The commission failed to

notice a glaring illogicality in its stance: that their solution to

the fact that " ...The [Mental Health] system is not oriented to the

single most important goal of the people it serves-the hope of

recovery " is to give the same ineffective treatments to everybody.

>

> Obviously you weren't consulted, but is this vision of a new human

being something you really want? Is your concept of the ideal human

being an amoral, promiscuous, criminally-inclined drug addict who

considers himself just one animal among many, with some animals less

equal than others? Maybe this is what G. Brock Chisholm and his ilk

see when they look in the mirror, but are the majority of us really

like that?

>

> Eight hundred years ago, the secretive Assassins ruled Eastern

Europe and the Middle East-arguably the biggest scam before

psychiatry, and how similar their methods! The fanatics would stuff

young men full of hashish (named after Hashshashin or Hasan ibn-al-

sabbah, founder of the secret cult) and have them awaken in a

veritable Garden of Eden with rivers of actual honey and fountains

of milk and buxom wenches to fulfill their every wish. After a few

days, the controllers would tell the young men they could return

to " heaven " only if they killed (a political enemy) and died in the

process. What did the assassins gain? An early death, while the

manipulators enjoyed complete social control and wealth-just

mentioning to the local caliph that the Assassins would be paying a

visit unless he parted with all his spare gold, and it would be

produced faster than he could say " Allah. "

>

> What eventually happened to the Assassins? After three hundred

years of holding sway, they were butchered by Timurlane the Great's

troops after one boy scaled the rock face below the assassin's

hitherto impregnable fortress, climbed its walls and opened the

front gates to the Mongol hoards.

>

> Instead of hoards of sword-bearing Mongols to put an end to the

psych butchery, fear and quackery, maybe it's time we shone the

bright light of truth on the hitherto invisible fortress of

psychiatry in our midst. Maybe we should quit supporting the scam

with our tax dollars and cease deferring to the better judgment of

an Authority made so by virtue of its own claims, rather than its

ability to obtain useful and desirable results. Maybe we should

bring psychs back under the law of the land, laws that cover

perjury, fraud, treason, conspiracy, antitrust, mayhem, and, yes,

even murder.

>

> In case you became dispirited reading about all this evil, know

that the cracks are starting to appear in the dam the drug companies

and psychiatrists have been trying to build between the light of

truth, and the dark lies they have been spinning for the last half

century. Even the FDA admitted in 2004 that SSRIs lead to suicide in

children, following the banning of the use of these drugs on

children in England. That the FDA then bowed to drug company

pressure and amended the warning label they had mandated, to read

that the drugs only caused increased risk of suicide in drug trials,

is predictable but won't stand up to the truth-if you add your

weight to the effort to rid our planet of those who think you are a)

an animal to be controlled by those who know what is best for you,

and b) a source of income.

>

> Lastly, in case it seems that the psychs are obviously so nutty

that they cannot possibly succeed, then think of the millions of

lives already ruined, being ruined, and still to be ruined if the US

New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report has its way. It

recommended in 2003 that all 52 million of America's school children

be screen for " mental illness " for " early detection and treatment. "

Or if the Universal Mental Health coverage proposed in 2004, is

allowed to come to pass with mental health screening for all

Americans. These " mental health " efforts sound well intended and

plausible, until you know that psychiatry's ability to define, let

alone detect and cure " mental illness " is a joke. Until you remember

that there is no such thing as a mental " illness " and that

psychiatry is an effort at social control, not individual

betterment. Until you recognize that psychiatric drugs and other

treatments are only ever destructive. Yet these efforts to legalize

complete psychiatric control of our lives were fought with fantastic

effort by the alert few. We all need to stand up and fight back.

This is our life and country these people are messing with! These

are our children and schools, our religions, our heads they are

destroying, just so they can have power and wealth.

>

> One very concrete contribution you can make to this battle between

good and evil, therefore, is to email me if you have been abused by

a psych, or know someone who has. Together, we will put an end to

the fraudulent and damaging activities of psychs: we will put them

(and unethical drug manufacturers) in prison, where they belong. And

one day, with the real sources of society's ills behind bars, the

rest of us can lead lives free of those who wish us ill.

>

>

> Steven Ferry

> Minister, professor, author and citizen " psychbuster "

> steven

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