HomeMental healthWhat is Psychiatry?: a Common Sense Guide, Part One
What is Psychiatry?: a Common Sense Guide, Part One
by Kieron McFadden
Most of the groups operatingin our society at this time are beneficial. A few vested interest groups are asinimical to its health as malignant tumors. Unfortunately they escape detectionbecause they lie about their actual intentions and misrepresent themselves.Among these is psychiatry
Psychiatry is a nineteenth century school of the mind, which believedthat:
Man is an animal.
All Man's thought, emotion, inspiration, hopes and dreams result from chemicaland electrical activity in the brain.
Man has no soul.
The causes of Man's woes cannot be rectified but they can be suppressed andtheir symptoms anesthetized by a direct attack on the body, brain and nervoussystem, through electric shocks and other methods of altering structure, suchas removing or disabling sections of the brain or chemical poisons known asdrugs.
When the lack of results achieved by such brutal interventions became aliabilty, psychiatry later added genetics, which asserted that nothing could bedone about the mind because human difficulties were inherited: that is,pre-programmed into the person's genes.
Psychiatry was able to establish itself as an authority on the mind becausein the nineteenth century very little was known about the mind. The physicalsciences were ascendant and psychiatry was able to make itself soundscientific.
Close examination of psychiatry reveals that its claims to science arebogus. I invite you to verify this for yourself by examining its methodologyagainst the criteria for a true science. However, dressed up inpseudo-scientific trappings, and funded through the decades by governments andcorporate/banking interests who have failed to make any such examination,psychiatry clung to its status as an authority on the mind until recent times.This was despite the fact that it was never able to produce workable methodswith desirable results, a betterment of Man's conditions or the resolution ofhis problems.
Through generous funding by governments and their money masters, the bankingelite, and through a huge outpouring of literature and friendly media,psychiatry became woven into the fabric of society. It insinuated itself invarious guises and with false claims of expertise into many areas, such ascriminal reform, education, the justice system and mental health.
As it did so insanity, violence and crime increased. After nearly twocenturies of psychiatric intervention, Man is more troubled and uncertain abouthimself than he has ever been and violence, crime, insanity and drug addictionare at epidemic levels. The world has become, in other words, catastrophicallyworse.
If psychiatry had truly provided answers, the opposite would have happened.
Yet despite all this, despite the swathe of carnage it has engineered, itcontinues to survive thanks to the continued willingness of governments towaste tax payers' money on it.