by Kieron McFadden
This is the second article in my series giving you a basic description of a vested interest group known as psychiatry
A psychiatrist is someone who practices psychiatry.
He believes:
- That you are an animal.
- That you have no soul.
- That your difficulties can and should be addressed by modifying your behavior.
- That it is acceptable to modify your behavior by intervention in the natural processes of your brain.
The psychiatrist's three main methods of altering your brain chemistry are:
- Electric shocks to your head to scar or burn away your brain tissue.
- Cutting out pieces of your brain.
- Administering chemical poisons so as to alter the chemistry of your brain and nerves.
A psychiatrist is NOT the same as a medical doctor.
A medical doctor addresses physical problems and observable and identifiable abnormalities in the body's structure and physical processes. He usually gets results - observable improvement in physical function.
A psychiatrist addresses problems of the mind, thought and emotion by seeking to bring about alteration of physical structure in the body, specifically of the brain. He operates largely on the individual practitioner's OPINION as to what constitutes an abnormality of mind, thought or emotion. His diagnostic manual (of which more in a later article), which lists hundreds of "disorders" requiring alteration of the brain, is based on opinion and majority vote and is without scientific foundation. His patients rarely if ever get well and once embarked on a course of his treatments, usually get worse and end up under "treatment" for the rest of their lives.
All psychiatric techniques are aimed at quietening and controlling the patient rather than curing him.
Psychiatrists admit they cannot cure their patients. They believe that cure is impossible (which of course it is using psychiatric methods of damaging the brain and nervous system). Having long since abandoned any hope or even pretense of cure, they talk instead of "managing" the person's condition.
With on no sound scientific foundation and no true understanding of the mind upon which to base their opinions about the mind, psychiatrists were not surprisingly unable to produce methods of solving problems of the mind. They fell back consequently upon methods of making people tractable and easier to manipulate and control - so-called "managing" the condition. Drugs were a very useful tool for achieving that end, the "chemical straightjacket" approach. Thus psychiatrists turned to drugs as their main stock in trade and became the main pushers of mind- and behavior-modifying pharmaceutical products into the society.
By positioning themselves alongside real doctors, psychiatrists were able to secure without earning it the trust and status rightfully afforded the genuine medical profession.
