Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood

[Jan Klimkowski]

I've seen this before and it is fun and all. Clearly Donkey is depressed and needs some assistance. But I'd really like to see the psychiatric community doing some widespread work on the real life psychopaths in power in government and in corporations instead of writing about fictional characters and collaborating and refining torture techniques with the CIA in Guantanamo. There is quite a deafening silence.

The truth is that psychiatry is probably the most corrupted and coopted of all medical disciplines.

The challenge for all scientists is whether they believe in Science for Science's sake, scientific discovery as inherently representing Progress, or whether they are prepared to consider the malign uses of technological discoveries and refuse to go down certain paths.

Frankly, shrinks are probably worse even than CBW researchers.

The dream of the Power to Control the Human Mind has seemed irresistable to generation after generation of morally voided psychiatrists.

When offered human subjects to test their hypotheses, many shrinks start dribbling like a paedophile given the keys to a kindergarten...