Bibliography

  • "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, 1961.
  • "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement", Thomas Szasz, 1970.
  • "Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "Anti-Freud - Karl Kraus' Criticisms of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "The Theology of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 1977.
  • "The Myth of Psychotherapy", Thomas Szasz, 1978.
  • "Insanity - the Idea and its Consequences", Thomas Szasz, 1987.
  • "Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market", Thomas Szasz, 1992.
  • "The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience", Thomas Szasz, 1996.
  • "Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide", Thomas Szasz, 1999.
  • "Faith in Freedom", Thomas Szasz, 2004
  • "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life", Essays by Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 2007.
  • "Psychiatry: the Science of Lies", Thomas Szasz, 2008.
  • "Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared", Thomas Szasz, 2009.
  • "Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 2011.
  • "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.

ACHTUNG MENTALISTS

MENTALIST.

Noun. c.1995. * Believer in "mental illness". Ex. gr. "You're a MENTALIST, mate!!!!!", Professor Alan Partridge, Norwich City University, in "Up With the Partridge", Norwich University Press, 2001.

Noun. c. 1995. MENTALISM. Belief in "mental illness".

Man is still quite senseless!.......

"L'homme est bien insensé: il ne saurait forger un ciron et forge des dieux à la douzaine."

"Man is quite senseless: he would not know how to make a maggot and he makes gods by the dozen."

Michel de Montaigne / 1533-1592 / Essais, 2.12.

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Michel de Montaigne,

Renaissance Humanist,
Latinist,
sceptic filosofer
campaigner for religious tolerance,
inventor of the "essay" form,
French writer,

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Replace "gods" with "Psychiatric diagnoses" in the above quote and we have some contemporary enlightenment I believe.


"RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DISORDER."

Was Hitler "Mad"?

Well it would be hard for him to have been since there really is no such thing as "madness" (apart from the 1980s English pop band)  - as we all discover at some point in our lives.

"Its the psychogram of a person with a narcisstic/psychopathic
personal disorder combined with a high IQ."

[This was an Internet quote regarding "Proper Muppet" Adolf Hitler - author of "Mein Shaft" - which is what he should have fallen down at birth........
"Everybody wants to rule the world; but only Hitler tried"...... .......].......

My shrink said he just had the plain RIGHT WING EXTREMIST DISORDER.

If you ask me - he was simply the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time....

("No Hitler, No Holocaust" - Professor Ian Kershaw. Maybe this is so. Hitler was sadly the leader of the successful Counter Revolution to the Communist German Revolution of 1918. But an equally important point to make is this - Hitler would have been NOTHING without people who obeyed him).

One of the serious points I am making is:-

That there are no such things as "Personality Disorders" - whether "Narcissistic" or of other kinds....

Such things are determined arbitrarily.
They are STIGMATIZING LABELS and they precede the behaviour that they purportedly describe.

This is MEANINGLESS, FAKE, PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE!.....

AND the fake DISCOURSE of "Psychiatry" is POTENTIALLY as dangerous as the discourse of fascism eventually was.

This was a warning that Szasz was giving us!.......
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"Psychiatric" diagnonsenses can also serve as the thinly disguised language of EXCULPATION.....as we can see here.......

ALSO and very sadly -

"Psychiatry" gives us the absurd MEDICALIZATION OF BELIEFS.
(As well as the "Medicalization of Everyday Life.")

A thoroughly wicked and ridiculous concept.
Objectionable beliefs are not medical problems. 
Neither can they be changed by medical means.

Such things mark the 20th century as a century of terrible cultural backwardness as compared to others preceding it.

We are supposed to be in a different century now. We are still so often mired in the rubbish of the preceding one.

A century that was undoubtedly the worst humanity ever saw.
The previous century will take us some time to recover from.

"Psychiatry", "Mental Illness", "Mental Health" - all of these ideologies are INTELLECTUAL DOGSHIT that must be painstakingly cleaned up from our global culture.


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Suicide

"There is only one philosophical problem - suicide."

Albert Camus (in the "Myth of Sisyphus").

It is obviously a logistical problem as well, you mellon!

But if Stelios - had created a company called "Easydeath" [rather than "Easyjet/EasyDeathForThePlanetEarth"] - for uncomplicated suicides -
I don't think he would get that much business anyway.

I do not necessarily advocate this for a second. But I do believe that suicide is a human right.
And if suicide were effectively made easily available I do not believe that that would necessarily mean that there would be more of it. There may even be less.

Regardless of whether there would be more of it or less of it, I believe in individual freedom.

Since "mental illness" simply does not exist - there is no link between it and suicide. Nor can there be.

"Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere."
Thomas Szasz.

I agree with this.


"If I should die think only this of me,
I'm just another victim of Psychiatry."




"AUTISM" IS A LIE AND PSYCHIATRY A CRIME!

"AUTISM" IS A LIE AND PSYCHIATRY A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

IRELAND - "Autism" is a LIE and "Psychiatry" a CRIME!

http://www.thejournal.ie/withdrawal-room-seclusion-isolation-autism-ireland-1255870-Jan2014/

Ireland is one of the oldest colonies in the world.

It is still colonized by THE EMPIRE OF BULLSHIT that is "Psychiatry".

One of Pyschiatry's home was England.

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"AUTISM"'s wiki definition cannot really sustain the "entity" beyond this definitional first line:

Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behavior. [WIKI].

There is not and never was ANYTHING concerning Neurology involved in "Autism".
No "neural lesions" have ever been found - or looked for - in connection with this utterly fraudulent entity.

"Impaired interaction" and "Stereotyped behaviour" ARE arbitrary and condemnatory DESCRIPTIONS.

And very importantly such behaviour can be changed by those supposedly displaying it.
Sadly, the person doing the diagnonsensing has all the power and can damn with such labels.

Yet this is what they are for.

The people involved in Psychiatry are effectively criminals.

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ADDENDUM:


So-called "Personality Disorders" are defined in Wiki thus:-

"Personality disorders are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behaviour, cognition and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating markedly from those accepted by the individual's culture."

In other words you'd be forgiven for thinking that the "Doctor" doesn't feckin' like you and/or how you are behaving!






Another great Thomas Szasz quote.

"In the animal kingdom the rule is eat or be eaten, in the human kingdom define or be defined."

Thomas Szasz. 

"THINKING DISORDER".

An example of a new problem identified by Sighkiatrysts.

"THINKING DISORDER":-

"A tree is NOT a chair. A shoe is NOT a cup.
A feeling, behaviour or thought is NOT an illness."

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