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Susan Sontag has written: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the potency of "spirit" over matter. [Illness as Metaphor] Mankind, we are told, has thrown off the shackles of superstition, the blinders of religion. We no longer believe the fairy tales of past ages of darkness and credulity. We have been "liberated" by science and advancement. But have we? In place of religion we have the new healers of our souls -- the therapists and analysts and counselling professions. They hold out the same shining touch that past ages found in religon -- wholeness and healing, "atonement" and forgiveness and a kind of validation.And the practioners of this new "Faith" are jealous in defense of their realm. Enlisted in their behalf are countless courts and colleges, all duly reverent of the wisdom of this new priesthood. Therapy has become the religion (and the science) of our present age, but alas, all too ready to pronounce anathema on sinners and heretics who dare to question their orthodoxy, or misfits who for all their trying can't conform to the current group-think. Paul Feyerabend writes, "the time is overdue for adding the separation of state and science to the by now quite customary separation of state and church. Science is only one of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy, and too dangerous to be left on its own." (Against Method) There is no question that healing comes when people cleanse their consciences, unburden their souls of festering issues. There is no question that hurting people need a word of blessing or validation or salvation. But how, practically speaking, are these new Saviours different from the old One? Karl Menninger noted that, "religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries." But we seem, in our enlightened modernity, to be discarding it. What if the Emperor's splendid clothing is nothing at all? What if the carefully engineered mystique of the Wizard of Oz is nothing but pretense and affectation?
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Survivor's Voice :: Credible Psychological Research / Resources
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Ritalin Abuse :: pseudo-science hurts kids
Thomas Szasz :: a psychiatrist unmasking psychiatry
Fuller Torrey :: (and others) end it!
The only true therapy :: heart felt compassion
Szasz' Book :: the myth of mental illness
Szasz :: the psychiatric dehumanization of man
Peter Breggin :: Toxic Psychiatry
Seth Farber :: author of Unholy Madness
Unholy Madness: The Church's Surrender to Psychiatry
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What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People
Margaret A. Hagen :: Whores of the Court - The Fraud
of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice
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Stop Bad Therapy Abuse :: End Psych Oppression NOW
Andrew Polsky : The Rise of the Therapeutic State
R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry
Mad to Be Normal: Conversations with R. D. Laing
The Crucible of Experience: R.D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy
The Wing of Madness : The Life and Work of R. D. Laing
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Lindell Mitchell :: Psycho-Quakery
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OIKOS :: The Dark Side of Psychiatry
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Illusion and Reality - The Meaning of Anxiety
Psychiatric Survivors :: Mind Freedom
Shoshanna's :: Psych Survivor's Guide
News Item :: Psychiatric Abuses in Florida
Psycho Heresy: the psychological seduction of Christianity
The great imposture : : Psychology As Religion
Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship
Review : : Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship
Gretchen Duncan : : Psychology vs The Bible
FTR books : : shocking exposes of pseudo-pscience
Rachelle Thibodeau :: Psychological Activism
Gregory Bateson :: enigmatic ecology of man
Therapy Letters :: Deborah David's sobering tale
Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry
Rick Miesel :: Psychology - Science or Religion?
Freeing Society from Drugs : scientology
Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights
Joe Sharkey :: Bedlam : Greed, Profiteering,
and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy
Louise Armstrong, And They Call It Help
The Psychiatric Policing of America's Children
Voices in the Night : Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Manufacturing Victims : the psych industry unmasked
Sally Satel : how political correctness corrupts medicine
The Achievement of Sigmund Freud
Need a shrink? or need a Saviour?
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
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Author Mary Pride delved the early issues of the noted journal Psychology Today, and here's what she found. In the second year of the esteemed periodical (1969), she found them state one of their missions to help man "face our inner experiences without the guidance of traditional dogmas, ritual, or patriarchal authority -- the foundation stones of Judeo-Christian religious experience. Left without collectively sanctioned God-values and moral absolutes, we are compelled to erect our own morality, arrive at our own faith and belief, and discover our own meaning to our own existence." |
| Anne of Michigan (a psych student?) writes me: "Psychology has really just began its journey. Remember, state hospitals were performing prefrontal labotomies, hot/cold baths, Thorozine as standard practice (In high doses an invisible straight jacket), etc, etc... only around 50 years ago. I am 30 years old and when I was growing up there was no psychology, just black and white and that was only 25 years ago,(e.g., you talk while adults were talking, you got slapped across the face). Now, the psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers are dabbling in the mind, body, spirit approaches to treatment and looking at all of the gray areas.
"Also, Transpersonal Theory, which deals with the spiritual/religious aspects of how a person was raised, either spiritually/religiously and the work that they did(journey), to understanding what they know believe. Also, how they practice there prefered spirituality/religion and incorperate it in their daily life, etc., whether, with the help of psychological treatment or not. Psychiatry, Psychology and Social Work, are very tricky areas. A lot of introspection, intution, time, looking at each person as an individual in treatment, etc... to really be able to help, which means: Shrinks, simply give their patient's the tools to make the necessary changes in their own lives. Also, remember, every field has good/bad in it. It is your responsibility to sift through and find what "You Need." |
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The Testament (Christian Bible) warns against the oppositions of "science falsely so called"
I Timothy 6 : 20
o Timothee depositum custodi devitans profanas vocum novitates et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiae
