My description of psychiatry is quite a simple one. It is a pseudo scientific system used as a way to control, pacify, and assert authority/conformity over the minds of the general population. In short it exists to control the minds of people.
It especially focuses its attention on those people that are an inconvenience or deemed a threat to the state and therefore in conclusion is very much an apparatus of the state primarily.
We can see this with the black slaves of America who were deemed mentally ill for trying to run away from their plantation owners.
In the former Soviet Union block psychiatry was a favorite means of disposing or incarcerating dissidents as well.
Being someone who is regularly confronted by people with psychiatric disorders and seeing the success that is achieved in some treatments, it makes me ask whether you know anything about psychiatry at all, and if not (as I suspect) why do you attempt to deride it?
The vast majority of psychiatry is purely voluntary. So the idea that it is some kind of Machiavellian scheme to control people’s minds is false.
There are far more effective ways employed by society to control people’s thinking, and they don’t involve voluntarily shelling out $100 per hour to sit down with a nice person to tell them your problems.
So these “conclusions” just come from something you read somewhere and your examples are from the distant past. So I was right - you do know nothing about psychiatry.
A vast majority? Ah, but it all isn’t voluntary, is it? Then there is the mandates…
Of course the very best way to control people is to make them think they’re in control of themselves by making them think that what it is they are doing is voluntary when of course you as an organization planned it all along from the very beginning. Nice try boy.
Why so defensive? Have I struck a nerve? No, the reason you’re defensive is because I have struck a nerve in that I am bringing in some conflict concerning some of your own beliefs. You being so defensive says it all. It really does say something about you.
I have a life and I’ll speak upon whatever I want to.
As I always tell people that don’t like what I am saying, you can at anytime piss off. See how easy that was?
tyler--------I think it is more controlled for the purpose of making money off of sickness…the government is in there also but just helping out…the government is not the major player…pharm is a major player…
Of course there is the profit factor of pharmaceutical companies. To create a endless number of mental illnesses out of thin air to which you can charge a fee for overmedicating the general populace.
The possibilities of creating new forms of mental illnesses out of thin air every ten years are very much endless if not infinite. Hmm…maybe I need to get a job working at a pharmaceutical company.
Of course profit is just an added bonus where total control of the human mind here is the real aim. Total control of the mind is the real strategy here conditioning human behavior.
With that being said we can very much conclude that psychiatry is an apparatus of the state.
the real attempt at enslaving people is going on with ordinary persons…who cares that much about the sick…they are a drag on the economy…the real aim is control of people for your special wants and needs…to dominate…
Your thread is empty of evidence.
I imagine you have a bug up your arse due to spending time with head shrinks.
If you knew the first thing about mental health and psychiatry you would know that in cases of mental illness that are a danger to the community, or to the ‘patient’, and that are not characterised by voluntariness there is a shortage and a reluctance on the part of the authorities to provide psychiatry even where is would help the patient.
In fact the legal system processing criminals who are bat-shit mad do not get enough care, but are thrown into prison with little or not help. Far from using it as a mechanism for control, psychiatry is largely a luxury of the rich to rattle off their woes to a willing ear.
So you are not just wrong, you are tragically ignorant of the facts.
No, Bob is not being defensive. Bob is puzzled as I am - how can one person have so many misconceptions about a single topic. How could you appear to talk with such arrogance about a subject you know nothing about.
There is something in this. But you ought to realise that drugs are mostly prescribed by GPs and has nothing to do with psychiatry.
1 in 4 women are regularly on mind changing drugs, largely prescribed by their GPs.
It’s a cheap means of doing what a nice chat on a couch would do much better.
Sadly having a nice chat once a week on a couch is very expensive, and despite there being a host of councillors out there, few are cheap enough or experienced enough as psychologists to be very effective as professional psychiatrists.
