Saturday, January 24, 2009

T&A Wins The Day/Antipsychotics Chew Brains Away

Corpwatch US has:

Gimme An RX! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales

The Bitter Pill has Dr Fred Baughman on:

A Govt In Charge Of Your "Mental Health" Is Not A Democracy

Dr Bonkers has:

Graymatter

And:

Psych Quotes.com has:

"The reduction of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process… The fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are in those individuals whom one reduces almost to amentia (feeble-mindedness)…"

Dr. Abraham Myerson, Harvard Psychiatrist, 1942

"We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood."

Carl R. Rodgers, Former President of the American Psychological Association (APA)

"The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values by psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not confined to separate courses or programs...they are not isolated idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous books and other educational materials in programs packaged by organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing programs in China under Mao."

Thomas Sowell, writing in Forbes, 1991

"Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul (1) and then gone out of its mind (2), seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness." (3)

Sir Cyril Burt in British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 53, No. 3, 1962, p. 229.




"Don't Call Me A Journalist. I'm A Reporter. I Go Where The Stink Is."

Matt Drudge

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