Posted on 08/08/2012 8:28:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
A significant number of social and personality psychologists have told researchers they would discriminate against conservatives in decisions about publishing, grant applications and hiring, according to a study published in the September issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Authors Dr. Yoel Inbar and Dr. Joel Lammers assert in the study the more liberal the psychologist claimed to be, the more likely they were to admit to anti-conservative discrimination....
"By excluding those who disagree with (most of) us politically," Inbar and Yammers concluded, "we treat them unfairly, do ourselves a disservice, and ultimately damage the scientific credibility of our field."...
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My first position after grad school with a non-profit that had just moved from the grounds of a state mental hospital into the community...in Massachusetts, of course.
Gramsci’s ghost haunts the Western world. His methodology - or praxis, to use the marxian term - has succeeded beyond his wildest imagination. It is a tool for will-to-power driven mass murderers, and it has been used to telling effect.
I had a blast in college taking psych courses. I was making good grades so they couldn’t flunk me but they really hated seeing me come in the door.
Nice to see it written up, but it’s a puff piece. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The Psychological Arts as they’re called, are an openly hostile abomination diametrically opposed to every tenet of conservatism.
Carl Jung is their current Guru: their antidote to the human condition.
http://home.earthlink.net/~thetabus/eugenics/eutt-6.htm
“1939 An interview with psychiatrist Carl Jung is published in Hearst’s International- Cosmopolitan. In it, he calls Mussolini a man of style and good taste who was “warm and human.” About Hitler, he says, “There is no question but that Hitler belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. As somebody commented about him at the last Nuremberg party congress, since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world. This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler’s is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, curious and unreasonable...So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a form of a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.”
This anti-semitic Hitler worshipper, and his science, were researching seances.
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/3847/the_occult_world_of_cg_jung.html
Want to know who Freud really was? English Prof. Frederick Crews is the go to guy.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=96726§ioncode=26
How about Alfred Adler?
http://www.lifecourseinstitute.com/Adler.htm
The 3 of these A**holes are the founders of the art of Depth Psychology, upon which all the other subdivisions of psych are based or derived.
How about a page of quotes from the psych field?
“Psychiatry’s Views on Conservatives
“In August 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million taxpayer-funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness.”
Source: B.K. Eakman, Chronicles, October 2004, pp. 28-29.
“Political conservatism as motivated social cognition” By Jost, John T.; Glaser, Jack; Kruglanski, Arie W.; Sulloway, Frank J. APA Psychological Bulletin, May 2003, Vol 129(3), p 339-375”
As for Edward Bernays and Goebbels, Goebbels owned Bernays complete works, which were originally titled Propaganda, and were only subsequently re-labeled as public relations After it was discovered that Goebbels had made extensive use of them.
Whether it’s called psychology or psychiatry it’s all the same knowledge base and its end game is to sell disability and drugs. Here’s what it’s costing us from science writer Robert Whitaker whose spent 25 years covering the psychiatric beat.
“Pg 245
The Disability Numbers
There are no good studies yet on the percentage of “early onset” bipolar patients when they reach adulthood, end up on the SSI and SSDI disability rolls. However, the astonishing jump in the number of “severely mentally ill” children receiving SSI speaks volumes about the havoc that is being wreaked. There were 16,200 Psychiatrically disabled youth under 18 years old on the SSI rolls in 1987, and they comprised less than 6 percent of the total number of disabled children. Twenty years later, there were 561,569 disabled mentally ill children on the SSI rolls, and they comprised 50 percent of the total. This epidemic is even hitting preschool children. The prescribing of psychotropic drugs to two-year-olds and three-year-olds began to become more commonplace about a decade ago, and sure enough, the number of severely mentally ill children under 6 years of age receiving SSI has tripled since then, rising from 22,453 in 2000 to 65,928 in 2007 (98)
Moreover, the SSI numbers only begin to hint at the scope of the harm being done. Everywhere there is evidence of a worsening of the mental health of children and teenagers. From 1995 to 1999, psychiatric-related Emergency Room visits by children increased 59 percent. (99)
The deteriorating mental health of the nation’s children, declared U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001, constituted a “health crisis.” (100) Next, colleges were suddenly wondering why so many of their students were suffering manic episodes or behaving in disturbed ways; a 2007 survey discovered that one in six college students had deliberately “cut or burned self” in the prior year. (101) All of this led the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate what was going on, and it reported in 2008 that one in every fifteen young adults, eighteen to twenty-six years old, is now “seriously mentally ill”. There are 680,000 in that age group with bipolar disorder and another 800,000 ill with major depression, and, the GAO noted, this was in fact an undercount of the problem, as it didn’t include young adults who were homeless, incarcerated, or institutionalized.
That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adulthood with a “serious mental illness.” That is proof of the most tragic sort that our drug based paradigm of care is doing a great deal more harm than good. The medicating of children and youth became commonplace only a short time ago, and already it has put millions onto a path of lifelong illness.
98: Social Security Administration, annual statistical reports on the SSI program, 1996-2008, Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical Supplement, 1988-1992
99: Pediatric Academic Societies, Pediatric Psychiatric admissions on the rise,” May 16, 2000 press release
100: D. Satcher, Report of Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2001).
101: B. Whitford: “Depression, eating disorders and other mental illnesses are on the rise, Newsweek, August 27, 2008”
Here’s a 13pg pdf that presaged his book’s release.
http://psychrights.org/articles/ehpppsychdrugepidemic(whitaker).pdf
“CONCLUSION
A century ago, fewer than two people per 1,000 were considered to be “disabled” by mental illness and in need of hospitalisation . By 1955, that number had jumped to 3 .38 people per 1,000, and during the past 50 years, a period when psychiatric drugs have been the cornerstone of care, the disability rate has climbed steadily, and has now reached around 20 people per 1,000. (Table 2) . As with any epidemic, one would suspect that an outside agent of some type-a virus, a bacterial infection, or an environmental toxin was causing this rise in illness . That is indeed the case here . There is an outside agent fueling this epidemic of mental illness, only it is to be found in the medicine cabinet . Psychiatric drugs perturb normal neurotransmitter function, and while that perturbation may curb symptoms over a short term, over the long run it increases the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, or ill with new and more severe symptoms . A review of the scientific literature shows quite clearly that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this modem-day plague.”
And yes the drugs are involved, and responsible for decades of mass shootings as they’re concurrently eating us out of house and home in dollars and cents.
Does any of this disgusting nonsense look like a Win in any way for Anyone, let alone Conservatives?
Personally I blame the many problems we have today with these idiots.
They tell teens that they’re normal , it’s OK to be out there, it’s OK to be finding ourself and parents should not get involved.
Now they’re working on getting rid of cross drssing as a mental problem and trying to call it a medical problem.
They’ve said that fecal sex is normal and now cross dressing .
Excellent thoughts. And like evolution and creationism, I think there is room for both. I think God created a certain degree of evolution; evolution did not create life as we know it. And I think there are elements of the psychological theories that are helpful, especially in healing mild disorders or healing from specific traumas.
For instance, many Christians have learned from psychologists not to judge or accuse a traumatized victim of sin and doubt nor admonish them to "just get over it." On the other hand, as you note, a murder committed by a psychotic or traumatized person is still a murder, and their past trauma should not erase culpability.
What I have learned is that the impact of socially universal "new information" takes at least 100 years to resolve, and often more. With the rise of global communications, we are experiencing progress in superficial ways, but regression in deep areas as we now must incorporate the experiences of a world of less advanced societies into our concepts of social universality.
Bottom line: "progressivism" is actually "regression towards the mean."
When I was in school in the late 80s it was psychologists they bought in to teach us sex ed.
We were country kids and already knew how it worked.
I think this discussion needs to make a distinction between research psychology and clinical psychology (counseling). The research end can certainly establish replicable phenomena that defy common sense -- I'm thinking of Harlow's "wire monkey" experiments here, or the studies in which decent people can be induced to inflict pain on others through thought manipulation. These are valuable insights into how ultimately to resolve traumas in individuals, or deliver relief to traumatized groups, such as after Columbine, Aurora or Fort Hood shootings.
It's the one-on-one stuff in the small room with no witnesses that is a particularly ripe area for abuse, and that needs much more rigorous scrutiny.
LOL!! I hear you. I drove my leftist American History professor wild, but always had plenty of footnotes to back up my arguments against his hate-America, anti-Christian b.s.
I had an 11 year old daughter by the time I got to college. My theories on child rearing differed considerably from what the “experts” thought.
Post 44: a brilliant debate, saved to hard drive. Everybody go back and read it in depth.
Jung’s descriptions of Hitler that you cited sound like Chris Matthews on Obama.
On the Brain Chemical myth? It’s Madison Avenue hype. There’s currently no way to establish a baseline normal of the brain chemicals involved: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine in a live human being. Autopsies however of people who’ve been on the drugs do reveal an out of balance state.
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392
“Contemporary neuroscience research has failed to confirm any serotonergic lesion in any mental disorder, and has in fact provided significant counterevidence to the explanation of a simple neurotransmitter deficiency. Modern neuroscience has instead shown that the brain is vastly complex and poorly understood [11]. While neuroscience is a rapidly advancing field, to propose that researchers can objectively identify a “chemical imbalance” at the molecular level is not compatible with the extant science. In fact, there is no scientifically established ideal “chemical balance” of serotonin, let alone an identifiable pathological imbalance. To equate the impressive recent achievements of neuroscience with support for the serotonin hypothesis is a mistake.”
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030240
“This drug-centred model suggests that instead of relieving a hypothetical biochemical abnormality, drugs themselves cause abnormal states, which may coincidentally relieve psychiatric symptoms (Table 1). Alcohol’s disinhibiting effects may relieve symptoms of social phobia, but that does not imply that alcohol corrects a chemical imbalance underlying social phobia. “
Let's not overlook Jeffey Masson's critique of Freudian theory, The Assault on Truth, on which he was assisted by Freud's daughter.
I’d certainly believe that there’s discrimination in the field, but it’s worth noting that it may not be so prevalent as believed. Psychologists have to go through the collegiate minefield of progressive indoctrination. That in/of itself is a weeding out process as far as conservative candidates are concerned, even before any discrimination can occur.
Did you notice the disparity between self described fiscal and social conservatives in the field? Down to 3.9%. You don’t get that far with discrimination; ideology is a non-physical attribute.(as opposed to tall, short, beautiful, ugly, fat, skinny, black, white, etc) It indicates something else.
College indoctrination alone may not even be enough. I’d bet that journals by psychologists, for psychologists are riddled with progressive propaganda as well. Indoctrination and propaganda work best when it’s upheld by seemingly 3rd party entities. The universities teach it, and the journals uphold it. It’s classic Bernays.(among others)
Thanks. Let’s have a go at the re-enslavement of America’s Blacks, and Hispanics, from these drug pushers.
http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/656/9/
A front page article in The New York Times raises the long-overdue alarms about the forced drugging of American children—in particular poor children who are condemned to ingest toxic neuroleptics (a.k.a. ‘atypical
antipsychotics) at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance.
These drugs qualify under the definition of poison.
Wikepedia definition of poison:
“In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism.”
These drugs’ toxic debilitating effects are clinically measurable and demonstrable in children’s impaired biological functions (cardiovascular, hormonal, metabolic, gastrointestinal) and damaged organs (liver, heart, and rain) not to speak of their adverse effects on children’s mental and psychological well-being.
The only unknown factor is how long it will take for these drugs’ toxic effects to cause a particular child severe, irreversible damage.
HERE, is what these neuroleptic drugs that inner city kids are being brain damaged with actually are.
http://psychrights.org/states/alaska/CaseXX/3AN-08-493PS/JacksonOnNLtoxicity.pdf
Progressivism and its phony Help for the disadvanteged is intentionally, knowingly, time release chemically lobotomizing these kids as a means of societal control.
It’s far worse than just the Liberal Culture of Dependancy that’s tossing 50% of young blacks into prison.
Try reading a text book! Liberal from intro to conclusion. The education of America is where the indoctrination is taking place.
Research paychology I had no really considered. I will allow as a portion of that field, probably a very small portion, is not fraud. Back in the 70s I had extensive 2nd and 3rd hand dealings with many psychologists and first hand also when I was attached to the Veterans’ hospital in Gainesville Florida. I had a number of friends going into the field at UF and met many practitioners. I watched a number of womens’ lives get totally skewed by psychs. It is the most fadbound of all the “sciences” and the for a few years was to diagnose any female that sought or was required to get counseling for any reason as a repressed lesbian who must act out her tendency. Much personal disaster came from that. In my own encounter with psychs in my role as VA patient I found them to be locked in the particular fads that were current and unable to even contemplated anything that determinedly did not comply with their templates. They became confused when the subject was able to actually discuss their points and did not answer questions “right”. I have met some psychologists since that period and my estimation of them has not risen.
It surely looks as though these perverts have captured the field, and inverted the perversions to “normal” and would try to institutionalize those convicted of normalcy.....
...or was sexually abused by her father. You are entirely correct about the "fadbound" nature of the industry. It's shameful.
...or was sexually abused by her father. You are entirely correct about the "fadbound" nature of the industry. It's shameful.
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