Posted on 05/14/2013 9:01:11 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
“In the days of the Malleus, if the physician could find no evidence of natural illness, he was expected to find evidence of witchcraft: today, if he cannot diagnose organic illness, he is expected to diagnose mental illness.” (1)
The Malleus Maleficarum was a 15th century text which instructed Inquisitors on the proper method of identifying, trying and burning witches. Though it was many years ago that renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) used the example of the Malleus to comment on the diagnostic practices of his fellow physicians, it seems he might have been on to something as today psychiatrists and educators alike are concerned that the recently completed “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V” (DSM 5) will be responsible for psychiatrists improperly diagnosing millions of Americans as mentally ill.
Produced exclusively by the American Psychiatric Association, the DSM provides physicians with a handy checklist of mental illnesses. Simply fit a patient into a category and...
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This is a parable of modern Liberalism and the modern nanny/Welfare State. Mom & Dad don’t want to discipline their kid or spend time raising him so they have the doctor diagnose him as having ADD. A guy is lazy and doesn’t want to work so he gets the doctor to diagnose him as depressed. And they all end up getting subsidized happy pills under Obamacare and perhaps even a disability check under Obama’s expanded SSI SOAR program. So the whole country is crazy, doped up and collecting a government check!!
Thanks for the update. Things have definitely swung the other way and it is now a lot harder to involuntarily commit someone, sometimes even when they are obviously crazy and potentially harmful to themselves and others.
Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
Turns out old Joe was right after all.
Yes, exactly. Pathetic that the lessons of the old Soviet Union are so ignored -- and that its policies are being enacted as I write this:
How long will you keep killing people?" asked Lady Astor of Stalin in 1931. Replied Stalin, "the process would continue as long as was necessary" to establish a communist society.
I handled hundreds of signals to all parts of the Soviet Union which were couched in the following form:
To N.K.V.D., Frunze. You are charged with the task of exterminating 10,000 enemies of the people. Report results by signal.--Yezhov." And in due course the reply would come back:
In reply to yours of such-and-such date, the following enemies of the Soviet people have been shot.
------Former Soviet Spy-Chief Vladimir Petrov
Estimates of 61,911,000 Murdered in The Soviet Gulag State
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Can I get an obamaphone?
...and of course the mentally ill cannot own guns!
Jobs as psychiatrists and a psychologists are perfect places to hide as being nut jobs in the first place. After all, once a nut job gets the certification, who can challenge them? Who checks the nut jobs? Another nut job.
That’s the problem—there are no truly sane ppl in this country. Each of us has something that can be diagnosed with these characters.
That is insightful... and sobering.
ping
Montgomery: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."Lawrence [played by Bob Hope]: "You mean like Democrats?"
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