Totalitarian medicine.You are to be highly congratulated for your excellent articles "Psychiatry and the State" and its companion "Planned Therapeutic Nanny State nanny state n. Informal A government perceived as having excessive interest in or control over the welfare of its citizens, especially in the enforcement of extensive public health and safety regulations. " (THE NEW AMERICAN, November 15 issue). Few publications exhibit your insight into the threat to individual liberty posed by psychiatry. Since I am pictured in the second article (bullhorn in hand) and our co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, is featured in your main article, I felt it appropriate to comment. Your assessment of the subjective nature of psychiatric diagnosis goes to the heart of the problem. Psychiatrists literally vote their "mental disorders mental disorders: see bipolar disorder; paranoia; psychiatry; psychosis; schizophrenia. " into the profession's billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders /Di·ag·nos·tic and Sta·tis·ti·cal Man·u·al of Men·tal Dis·or·ders/ (DSM) a categorical system of classification of mental disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, that delineates objective . So, "mental illness" is in the eye of the beholder--the psychiatrist, in whose interest it is to find the person "ill." As Dr. Szasz points out, "mental illnesses" are simply labels given to behaviors--behaviors that someone doesn't like. Most people do not understand that there is no science to psychiatry. It is an emperor with no clothes--stark naked. Yet today, the child who fidgets or butts into line gets labeled with "attention deficit disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADD or ADHD) formerly hyperactivity Behavioral syndrome in children, whose major symptoms are inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any " and put on one of the psychiatrist's mind-altering drugs--drugs in the same class as opium opium, substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Opium varies in color from yellow to dark brown and has a characteristic odor and a bitter taste. , morphine, and cocaine. An estimated 10 million children are on some class of psychiatric drugs today--10 million! If you think the Colombian drug cartel Noun 1. drug cartel - an illicit cartel formed to control the production and distribution of narcotic drugs; "drug cartels sometimes finance terrorist organizations" is the number one drug pusher pusher Drug slang 1. A person who sells drugs, especially the 'heavies'–eg, heroin 2. A metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue in crack stems in America, think again. It is your "friendly" neighborhood psychiatrist pushing his toxic notions on children whom he has labeled with little else in mind than his own self-interested greed and a broader agenda of social engineering and control. My only caution would be this: the lead article makes the point that legislation is enacted by Congress and implies that the mental health screening can be stopped there. Perhaps. But the "New Freedom Mental Health Commission" was an Executive Branch creation and is being forwarded by state mental health departments, some of which are implementing the commission's recommendations even without direct funding from the federal government. It is the states (using the Commission's recommendations) that are beginning to implement these programs. I urge your readers to find out exactly what is going on in their states. Psychiatric social control is no longer Orwellian fiction. It is moving across America as we speak. And it will be those who truly cherish liberty who must say "no" to psychiatry's "Brave New World Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79] See : Dystopia Brave New World " before it is too late. BRUCE WISEMAN U.S. President, Citizens Commission on Human Rights |
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