Posted on 08/08/2011 12:36:02 PM PDT by wagglebee
Whatever. The decision demonstrates conclusively that the APA has no interest in mental health.
Many of these posts are riddled with bigotry and inaccuracy, and your is no exception.
So are navy veterans.
“Such generalities, while fun to make, are quite often inaccurate.”
How about “all Freepers named Rudder support the APA’s agenda”?
The APA does not represent the totality of the mental health profession, and has been marginalized by leftists with a political agenda.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
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great link. thanks.
i also note these psychologists basically ONLY support marriage, for people who are gay.
they typically tell us that traditional marriage is obsolete, and they don’t support it for “straight” people.
revealing their true agenda.
What you have written is called an error.
BTW, I resigned from the APA back in the 1970's because of actions discussed in the article.
I take it from your earlier posts that you are or were a practicing skull jockey, so when you saw a new patient for the first time did you assume that they were a happy, normal, well-adjusted person just stopping by to make sure that you agreed or did you assume that they were there because they had some sort of issues? Regardless of your answer, how does either assumption not make you a bigot if we are to accept your premise from above.
Healthy people go to doctors to get physicals all the time, people with perfect teeth go to dentists all the time, happy, emotionally healthy people DO NOT make appointments with psychologists.
Is that ever true! I worked with the Psych Dept at a State Univ. There were a couple who weren’t nuts, but they were the exception. The profession attracts them. Crazies, that is.
Understatement of the year. The APA is the heir of Josef Mengele.
I've never known anyone in this field who didn't have severe mental problems. You'd pretty much have to have a severe mental problem to decide that other people with problems should be pumped full of experimental drugs, which is the industry standard practice.
Ever been before a judge? They can order MH evaluations without knowing whether the person is happy, healthy or emotionally sound. According to your scenario, I am obligated by my personal bias to find them all nuts.
We can change that real quick: Allow me to introduce myself...
Let's look at this two ways:
1. Do you consider a court-ordered evaluation to be the same thing as a normal person calling and making an appointment.
2. Are you aware of a single case where someone who was ordered by a judge to have an evaluation and was subsequently found to be happy, emotionally healthy and well-adjusted? I don't mean a person being found competent to stand trial, but actually emotionally healthy.
It is only a matter of time before pederasty is also “a variation of normal”.
Maybe you aren’t nuts but you sure are defensive.
yes, yes.
Well, you are perceptive. I am defending my profession from bigoted insults.
If I bashed Christian home school moms, would you come to the defense?
I can only defend myself. If 99% of Christian homeschool mothers voted to defend homosexual marriage I think I may apologize for the group I belong to and distance myself from them.
I’m afraid you may be the only one.
While I sympathize with the instinct to defend one’s profession, perhaps you should consider that these people at the APA and their ideological ilk are not actually practicing the same profession at all, but instead have co-opted the moniker of the profession for an endeavor of another kind entirely.
What I know of as the practice of psychiatry/psychology/sociology/etc. includes methods that no sane, non-sociopathic person could adopt. There’s a huge problem with this profession and there are millions of kids on functionally experimental psychoactive medicines whose existence attests to the distorted and disturbing nature of the field in the present day.
“Your wife is a dingbat” doesn’t seem like a generality to me. Perhaps you meant, “All wives are dingbats?” Your point, of course, is true. Generalizations are usually true, but it’s generally wrong to apply to every member of a group. However, the APA unanimously in a 157-0 vote approved of same sex “marriage,” so that seems to prove Recon Dad’s point that ALL members of the APA have “psychological issues themselves.”
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