[twigs]

I read something on FR recently that someone somewhere is proposing a person with radical beliefs or "bias" should be entered into the medical lexicon as a type of disorder that can be diagnosed as such. The first thing I thought of is how easy it could be to have such a person committed to mental institutions. A way to get rid of people who can think...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Has been done and is done in some places in the world...

[Aquinasfan]

I read something on FR recently that someone somewhere is proposing a person with radical beliefs or "bias" should be entered into the medical lexicon as a type of disorder that can be diagnosed as such. The first thing I thought of is how easy it could be to have such a person committed to mental institutions.

This was standard practice in the former Soviet Union, and a good reason why psychology should be severely scrutinized. Unfortunately, psychology, or psychological mumbo-jumbo, pervades our society.

As far as I know, the three main branches of psychology are Freudianism, Jungianism, and Behaviorism. It's apparent now that Freudianism was invented out of whole cloth. Jungianism is occultic. And Behaviorism, while it may contain trivial truths, is perniciously reductionistic. So what's left?