The BCN - Brain and Central Nervous System

In Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine etc..... the Brain and Nervous System are ONE BODY SYSTEM - made of the same kind material and functioning as one. The "BCN". ......

Brain Science and Neuroscience are indeed usually interchangeable SYNONYMOUS terms - reflecting this scientific truth.

But this terminology needs "tightening up" and it would be helpful to do so I think.

Therefore Neuroscience could be called Brainscience - and indeed it is.

And hence Neurofilosofy - could be called Brainfilosofy or even Cerebrofilosofy!.....

hmmmmm.......

Where "Science" is rendered as "o-Logy" from "Logos" - one could end up with....

Neurology - which is simply a branch of Medicine concerned with the physical nervous system.

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"Nervescience" as "practised" nowadays is often about observing and measuring "neurotransmitters" and "electrical brain scans"......

Neurotransmitters are biochemical human substances..... like enzymes except in the nervous system.....

Far too much is concluded and extended from what is observed from such data......

Neurotransmitters like Dopamine work in relation to extremely basic body functions - like eating, breathing, sleeping.....

They have NOTHING AT ALL to do with emotions and decisions and the like.

Interfering with them has no or little effect on anything ANYWAY.

Let alone on anyone's behavior, emotions, thorts or feelings etc......

Supposedly interfering with them - in the context of "Psychiatric" POISONING - usually means DESTROYING them and their functioning as well as the nervous system itself.
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"Neuroleptic" LITERALLY means - destroys the nerves!.....

The chemical cosh that bashes your body to smithereens!

Worse than a real cosh!....

So-called "Neurospychiatry" ("Nerve-Mind-Healing") is a PSEUDOSCIENCE and one of the most damaging crimes against humanity that has been known to us.

Harsh condemnation. Fully warranted.

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NEUROLOGY is a branch of Medicine (or what is left of it) concerned with the (fisiological) nerves and the treatment of fisiolojical problems of the nerves and the nervous system!......

NEUROSCIENCE - a totally different thing - is a frightening new entity from the USA :) -  something surprisingly different!......

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:)

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Mood is almost entirely subjective and a choice.

The idea that a substance can change one's mood is almost as wicked as the idea the the state of one's mood can in itself constitute an "illness" anyway.

An excess of "serotonin" - supposedly a "cure" for something that does not and cannot exist - the "illness" of "depression" - will only harm and destroy body systems.

The "medication" is only officially THORT to cause this anyway!

And then this effect - an excess of "serotonin" - is then THORT to have effects. :) :O

As with all neurotransmitters they are always concerned with BASIC BODY FUNCTION -appetite, sleep etc.

NOT moods or thorts or feelings.....

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Possibly the biggest factor in ending anyone's "depression" is their realizing that it does not and cannot exist as an illness.

In my experience, what gets labelled "depression" (for example) is almost always related to beliefs and beliefs about life events - not physiology (other than basic health).

Telling someone that they have an "illness" when they obviously do not can never help.

Giving them 200 quid a fortnight extra "Disability Allowance" (when there is NO disability) will help them go to the pub and - in the case of the more sensible recipient of the "wonga" - the brothel.
Neither locales constitute the permament "cure"! :)

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DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.

DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.

[Of the dead one should only speak good.]

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Of the dead one should only speak good.
In the case of Szasz - this is particularly easy to live up to!

Szasz's books are of the highest quality and his ideas have the potential to avoid a great deal of suffering. He has rendered humanity a great service with his work.

Szasz's views' are perhaps sometimes being misrepresented and him and his views are being denigrated from beyond the grave.

A good example is Szasz's current wiki artricle.

It has an ENTIRE PART entitled "Criticism" at an early point in the article.

Is that the case with Chomsky's wiki or Newton's wiki?

The things that make up this part of the wiki article in my view do not really come under the definition of "critique" or "criticism".

Perhaps "mudslinging" would be a more apt title for this part of the wiki article.

Chomsky as a thinker is accorded far more attention than Szasz.

I think Szasz is absolutely worthy of an equal amount of attention.

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His ideas are for all of us!
For they are nothing more than ideas - systematised LOGIC!

The distinction between MEDICINE and CRIME.

The distinction between MEDICINE and CRIME is an extremely important one.

It has been blurred now for centuries, mainly due to the pseudo-science of "Psychiatry".

Crime is no more the concern of Medicine than any behaviour.

Discodancing, for example, is neither a disease nor a crime - though some may think that it falls within the ambit of "crime". :)

Consequently, a disco dancer is neither in need of a doctor nor a policeman.

As soon as we allow the most heinous crimes to be regarded as "symptoms" of illnesses - or as illnesses themselves - like the common cold - then we are in trouble. To put it mildly.

As soon as we impute the views of those we disagree with to supposed non-proven illnesses we are seriously compromising our political and legal systems as well as the whole of science.

Yes, it is that vital a distinction.

Szasz of course has written extensively on issues like this.

We are already - even within the crime that is "psychiatry" itself - often treating people for crimes and punishing people for "illnesses".

Things like that are undoubtedly illogical.

The way forward is humbly to try to stick to logic.

If there is ANY crime then there may be punishment etc.
If there is SURELY NO ILLNESS there can be no treatment.

Our society already knows that it constantly breaches and marrs that logic.
It justifies that with pragmatism. But this is not really a good idea! Nor is it necessary!

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