05-03-2012, 09:27 AM
Adele Edisen Wrote:Hi, Peter,
You could try swallowing your pride. (JOKE!) But this article shows how psychiatry and psychology can be used to produce a conformist and unhealthy society. Not to mention a non-thinking society, as well.
Adele
Yes, This is why I switched majors at university from clinical psychology to environmental science. While there are a few [FEW!] psychologists and psychiatrists who believe in self-actualization and not 'fitting in' to the demands of the elites; they have been marginalized. There are the wonderful papers by Szasz and one good textbook I know entitled Political Psychology. A few good strands of therapy, but most are for conformity above all else. All of the psychopathologies are never applied to the society.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass