One Nation Under Therapy
Exposing Psychology
boon for humanity or `science` falsely socalled
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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 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. 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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And some humor ....
Samuel Goldwyn remarked:Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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One Nation Under Therapy?
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One Nation Under Therapy :: the helpers themselves need help
Survivor's Voice :: Credible Psychological Research / Resources
The Great A.D.D. Hoax :: Ritalin and Lies
Ritalin Abuse :: pseudo-science hurts kids
Thomas Szasz :: a psychiatrist unmasking psychiatry
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
Farber :: Madness, Heresy, And The Rumor of Angels
Dr. Tana Dineen, Manufacturing Victims
What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People
Therapists and 'memory recovery' :: a case of undue influence
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
Roberta Russell :: RD Laing and love
William Kirk Kilpatrick :: Faith and Therapy
Lindell Mitchell :: Psycho-Quakery
OSHO :: Psychologists, the New Priesthood
OIKOS :: The Dark Side of Psychiatry
Stop Shrinks :: debunking psych myths
David Smail :: Social power and Psych Distress
David Smail ::
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." |
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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