Great Nelson Mandela quote on oppressors.

"I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner........; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as sure as I am not free when my humanity is taken from me.
The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."

Nelson Mandela.

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Even were coercion entirely removed from the practice of the pseudo-science of "Psychiatry" - as it must be - it is still intrinsically oppressive;
and this fake discipline must also be abolished as a supposed branch of what remains of Medicine.

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Another relevant parafrased quote:

"Where people believe absurdities, they can end up committing atrocities."

Voltaire.

Racism and Psychiatry are ABSURDITIES!

"Lunatic"

Bertrand Russell and other filosofers even today often make use of terms like "lunatic", if only in rhetoric.
A problem with terms like this is that they really do have no meaning at all.
Russell in using such terms is showing that - as he always stressed - filosofers, even including him, were embedded in the culture of their times.

What I think Russell really means when he says things like "everyone other than a lunatic agrees that" - is there are certain things that he believes everyone reasonable would agree to.
Elsewhere he and others say more worrying things.

One of the only other filosofers to deal with Bertrand Russell and others' use of meaningless terms like "lunatic" is Thomas S. Szasz.

http://www.szasz.com/freeinquiry.html

Is it a mistake to hope for an end to such utter stupidity?

"And trying to get it right,.....perpetuates the long-standing idea that, in our present state of knowledge, the recognized varieties of mental illness should neatly sort themselves into tidy blocks, in the way that plants and animals do."

Ian Hacking discussing the latest edition of the D.S.M. in the London Review of Books, 8th August 2013. Or is it the London Review of Bullshit?

Is it a mistake to hope for an end to such utter stupidity?

This review of a serial publication that is as ridiculous and offensive as "Mein Kampf" sounded like it was the radical and dismissive critique that it should have been.
After all, the doggerel that we call the D.S.M. was nearly not published this time round.

The unfortunate last sentence cited above gave the lie to this hopeful assessment.

Has Szasz's name ever been mentioned in the L.R.B.? I doubt it.
Or in its sister journal the New York Review of Books?

Incidentally, the N.Y.R.B. practically worships the paper that thinkers like Chomsky doodle on, I would add! And rightly so!

Where is the adulation and respect that Szasz deserves? When will it come?

Szasz was from a University near New York too, at Syracuse!

No "mental illness" at all exists or can exist!

Whilst a science of Palaeontology could exist - "Psychiatry" simply cannot exist as any kind of science.

I repeat that no "mental illness" at all exists or can exist.

So don't bother dividing them up!

Which example of other supposed scientific disciplines wholly based on a non-existent and illogical concept should one invoke?

For me "Economics" based atround the "concept" "Economy" is a good contender!

With "Psychiatry" it is far worse.

For whilst a science of Palaeontology could exist - "Psychiatry" simply cannot exist as any kind of science.

There is no mention whatsoever of the word and terminology "Psychiatry" - its origins as a term being in the English-speaking world - before 1846.

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Now that he has left us, Szasz is being misrepresented and denigrated from beyond the grave.

It is a truism of the history of filosofy that revolutionary ideas are suppressed or revealed gradually and gently. Quite often even by their originators.

Copernicus and Spinoza, for example, took great pains to make sure that their works were mainly published and disseminated after they themselves had died - in both cases.

Szasz was effectively a filosofer, a filosofer who has recently left us.
He knew well that speaking out and documenting the obvious defect in Medicine that was represented by Psychiatry when he became a medical doctor would be controversial and would potentially have revolutionary results.

He made the effort to present his surprisingly simple and obvious ideas and works diplomatically and sensibly.

It is a tragedy if his views - which have the potential to end so much unnecessary suffering - are in any way misrepresented now that he has gone. They indeed were misrepresented whilst this brave and courteous man lived.

"The Lie of Mental Illness."

Thomas Szasz - I dare say - would have preferred, in an ideal world, to call his seminal work "The Myth of Mental Illness" - "The LIE of Mental Illness."

Szasz was a filosofer, an activist but also one of the only accurate historians of this thoroughly wicked institution and so-called branch of medicine.

Once again his ideas are simply deliberately misrepresented on wikipedia and elsewhere.
Whilst alive and now whilst he is dead.

An insult to one of the greatest intellectuals of all time and an insult to the millions damaged and murdered by the crime against humanity that was "Psychiatry".
He very compassionately tried to rescue people this from state-imposed slavery and oppression.
His sucess is inevitable.
How sad that he is not here to see the 1945 victory fully achieved and human rights established across the world.

www.szasz.com/manifesto.html

www.szasz.com

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Like slavery - "mental illness" ideology and "Psychiatry" are amongst the clearest breaches of the Golden Rule - "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You" - that it is possible to conceive of.

Cristians would never seek to enforce or coerce a belief in Cristianity - or at least not nowadays!

Yet contemporary "Western" society officially and authoritatively teaches the belief in "Mental Illness" to our whole global society. And no one seems to notice that it is a lie.

It is a belief with no science of any kind to support it. In fact it is destroyed by simple logic.

It is a belief which some do not realise is simply a belief. It is a belief in a complete lie.

This is backed up by state coercion and control and state propaganda.

This "religion"'s days are well and truly over.

The pseudo-science, pseudo-religion and crime against humanity that was "Psychiatry" is finished.

www.charterforcompassion.org

The Nazis - A Warning from History!

The Nazis - A Warning from History.

Psychiatry - A Warning from Right Fucking Now!

Liberty Lost Still Buried Today Beneath the Lie of "Mental Illness".

June 2013.

Still stuck in the crime against humanity that is the UK "Mental Health System".
I am at the present time effectively under house arrest of a kind.
For no reason whatsoever and for no crime whatsoever. And here in the UK my own birth country.
A bit like Julian Assange.

This is a disgraceful injustice imposed on me and thousands of others by a criminal system, run and maintained by criminals.
If you are involved with these prisons then you are a criminal - from the humblest cleaner to the most bleeding-heart drama therapist. These places are illegal prisons. That alone makes them unacceptable. It is nothing personal.

Whilst under this coercive system people expect me to behave in an entirely "normal" way.
If you don't treat people normally, how can you expect them to behave normally?

If you treat people for decades on end as effective slaves and imprison them without reason at the drop of a hat is it not a miracle for them not to be full of hate for the so-called society around them?

I would implore anyone anywhere to campaign vigorously for an end to the crime that is psychiatry

www.szasz.com/manifesto.html

www.amnesty.org

"It's a condition and not a choice!"

"It's a condition and not a choice!"

Depression and Anxiety (Link).

This org's "channel" chose to block my comment ("If that is the case, how can he be helped?") in reply to the one above about this young man. Fair enuff. Maybe I was too cheeky in the end.

The channel managers did not have Citizens Sofa Aversion Disorder - they made the choice to deliberately block me.

My contention is that in the case of the chap here referred to - his so-called "condition" is ultimately in some way his choice.

Generally speaking, my contention is that the opposite to the headline comment above is the case :-
ID EST :
"It is a choice and cannot be a "condition"."

The belief that our behaviours and feelings are beyond our own control is a highly damaging falsehood.
Obviously so.

Does he have to look in the newspaper every morning to see what the DepressionAndAnxiety Forecast is? - like looking for the Pollen Count or the Meteorology/Weather forecast?

Do I mean to imply this chap is "malingering" in some way? Whatever that means....

Not at all. I merely mean that usually such stresses have a cause and don't just fall from the sky so to speak.

If CBT is used to challenge negative thorts or feelings well then there is a contradiction since the ideology of "mental illness" says that this man has a "condition" which makes such things inevitable.

So the mere ideology is damaging and not just the possible "treatments" which for ANYONE can include imprisonment etc.

This option should NEVER be available. The people who enforce options like this are wicked criminals.
This man IMO needs defending from them. As do we all.

"Concentration camps are not reformed they are only abolished."

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