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A souls silent scream to be itself manifests as
mental illness in the eyes of those that demand fealty.
Psychotic Sensibility
1. There is a
distinctive psychotic sensibility different than that of "normal" persons.
2. This sensibility is an asset, not a defect-and thus provides a basis
for "psychotic pride."
3. The 'psychotic episode" has value, it has the
potential to shed light on the human situation, to promote spiritual growth; it
is not a mental illness or a symptom of a brain defect.
4. Psychotic
experience has value, society ought to provide supportive sanctuaries where
people can undergo this experience without the adverse consequences of standard
psychiatric treatment.
5. Society as it exists today is insane; in the
words of Laing, it is existentially or "ontologically off course."
6.
The purpose of the mental
health system is social control -
forcing people to adjust to
society as is, to the status quo.
7.
If society is insane,
adjustment to society is not a
sign of mental health, of
spiritual
well-being.
Seth Farber
"Criminal psychiatry and
psychology risk
becoming the ultimate alibi behind which
the prevailing system will
hide in order to remain unchanged.
They could not possibly suggest a
serious alternative to the prison system for the
simple reason that they owe their origins to it." - Michel
Foucault
"Therapy has
established itself as the successor both to rugged individualism and to
religion.
Therapy constitutes
anti-religion, not always to be sure because it adheres to rational
explanation or scientific
methods of healing, as its practitioners would have us believe, but because
modern society has no future and
therefore gives no thought
to anything beyond its immediate needs.
"Compassion" as
self-sacrifice or
self-abasement,
"meaning" as submission to a higher
loyalty - these
sublimations strike the therapeutic sensibility as intolerably oppressive,
offensive to common sense and
injurious to personal health and
well-being.
To liberate humanity from such
outmoded ideas of compassion
and duty has become the
mission of the
post-Freudian therapies and particularly of their popularizers, for whom
mental health means the
overthrow of inhibitions and the immediate gratification of every impulse."
- Christopher Lasch
"Psychiatric treatment is
infamously impotent to
address serious mental
conditions.
Psychiatrists, as
fully enculturated elite members
of society, are unable to call into question
the cultural assumptions in
which they are deeply invested.
Their investment blinds them to the
underlying rightness and fundamental sanity of a patient's reaction to
a world gone wrong." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"Mental health professionals in the West, and in the US
in particular, create official categories of
mental diseases and promote them in a diagnostic manual that has become the
worldwide standard.
American observers and
institutions run most of the premier scholarly journals and host top
conferences in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
Western drug
companies dole out large sums for research and spend billions marketing
medications for mental illnesses." -
Ethan Watters
"A survey published in the early 1970s
found that whereas a majority (59%) of people who had visited a professional
psychotherapist for emotional
distress reported having been "helped" by the consultation, much larger
majorities of people who had consulted
a clergyman (78%) or
a physician without
specialized psychological training (76%) or - get this - a
lawyer (77%) reported the
same thing." -
Scott Stossel
Labeling mental
illness as biochemically based creates greater tension than
labeling mental illness
as a disorder of the spirit -
such as demon possession,
incorrect thinking or
spiritual
corruption.
Individuals with "schizophrenia" in
Third World countries fare better over
time than those living in "developed" nations.
Over the centuries every
culture has developed unique ways to deal with someone who is behaving in a
culturally non-normative way.
"Muslim and Swahili spirits are not
exorcised in the Christian sense of casting out. Rather they are
coaxed with food and goods, feted with
song and dance. They are placated, settled, reduced in
malfeasance." -
Juli McGruder
Certain
emotional reactions from family members correlate with higher relapse rates
for people who have been
diagnosised as schizophrenia.
Reactions such as criticism,
hostility,
overprotectiveness or constant intrusiveness may cause relapse.
"Spirit-possession beliefs had
unexpected benefits.
Critically, the story allows the person with
schizophrenia to rejoin society when health is restored.
An ill
individual enjoying a time of relative grounding could, at least temporarily,
retake his or her
responsibilities in the kinship group.
Since the illness was seen
as the work of outside
forces, it was understood as an affliction for the sufferer but not as an
identity." - Ethan Watters
In a study conducted in Türkey those
who labeled schizophrenic behavior
as akil hastaligi (illness of the
brain or reasoning abilities) were
more inclined to assert that schizophrenics were aggressive and
should not live
freely in the community than those who saw the disorder as ruhsal
hastagi (a disorder of the
spiritual or inner self).
Another
study, which looked at populations in
Germany, Russia and Mongolia,
found that "irrespective of place endorsing
biological factors as the
cause of schizophrenia is associated with
a desire for social
distance."
Unfortunately
social distance
increases isolation enhancing
schizophrenia.
"Behavior can not be
pathological.
It can simply comport with, or not comport with, our
expectations of how
people should behave.
Analogously, brains that produce
atypical behaviors are not
diseased.
They are brains
that produce atypical behaviors.
The erosion of
personal responsibility
is the most pernicious effect of the
expansive
role of psychiatry has come to play in
American life.
It has successfully replaced huge chunks of
individual accountability with
diagnoses, clinical histories and what turn out to be
pseudoscientific
explanations for deviant
behavior." - Irwin Savodnik
Anthropologists and
cross-cultural
psychiatrists have amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that
mental illness is
culturally specific.
In some
Southeast Asian
cultures, men have been known to experience what is called amok,
an episode of murderous
rage followed by amnesia; men in the
region also suffer from koro, which is characterized by the debilitating
certainty that their genitals are retracting into their bodies.
In the
Levant there is zar,
a condition related to
spirit-possession beliefs that brings forth dissociative episodes of laughing,
shouting and singing.
"Behind the
promotion of Western
ideas of mental health and healing lie a variety of
cultural assumptions .
Westerners share, for instance, evolving beliefs about what type of
life event is likely to make one
psychologically traumatized, and
we agree that venting emotions
by talking is more healthy than
stoic silence.
Our biomedical advances are hard to separate from
our particular cultural
beliefs." - Ethan Watters
Human troubles - from
anxiety,
interpersonal squabbles
to misbehavior of many kinds - is to be
viewed not as an inevitable part of
the human comedy, but as
psychopathology to be treated with
powerful
neurotoxins.
"Mainstream Western psychology has
limited the definition of
mental health to the interpersonal
context of an urban-industrial society.
All that lies beyond the
citified psyche has seemed of no human
relevance - too frightening to
think about." -
Theodore Roszak
The
vast broadening of the definition of
mental disorders has skeptics
suspicious of the
motivations of the American
Psychiatric Association and the
pharmacuetical
manufacturers.
"Mental
illness is feared and has such a stigma because it represents a reversal of
what Westernized people have come
to value as the essence of
human nature. Western culture highly values
an illusion of self-control and
control of circumstance,
we become abject when contemplating
mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less
controllable, more open to
outside influence, than we imagine our own to be." -
Juli McGruder
The
metastasizing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric
Association appears to be caught up in a contemporary
narcissistic quest for
individual perfection through the application of
neurotoxins.
"Western mental-health discourse
introduces core elements of Western culture, including
a theory of human
nature, a definition of
personhood,
a sense of time and
memory and a source of
moral authority.
None of this is universal.
One set of ideas about pain and
suffering is being presented as definitive.
There is no one definitive
psychology." - Derek Summerfield
Social engineers claim
powerful neurotoxins are
necessary to create a civil
and just social culture of
perfectly conforming
individuals capable of serving
existent social
institutions.
"We say we are being
kind, but our actions suggest otherwise.
Viewing those with mental
disorders as diseased sets them apart and
may lead to our perceiving them as
physically distinct.
Biochemical aberrations make them a
different species." - Sheila Mehta
The implicit ideal -
the properly medicated healthy, normal and
truly happy camper - will harbor
no serious worries or
animosities, no sadness over losses or failures,
no disappointments with
family, no doubts
about themselves or conflicts
with others, and, certainly not the
expression of strange ideas or
behaviors defined in media as
psychopathology.
"For more than a generation
the West has aggressively spread mental illness around the world in the
name of science changing not only the treatments but also the expression
of mental illness in other cultures.
In the end,
cross-cultural psychiatrists and
anthropologists tell us is that all
mental illness, including
depression,
PTSD and even schizophrenia, can be
every bit as influenced by
cultural beliefs and expectations today as hysterical-leg paralysis or
the vapors or zar or any
other mental illness ever experienced in
the history of human
madness." - Ethan Watters
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