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.

Another vicitm. How many more?

Sylvia Plath - like, for example, Vincent Van Gogh - was not "mentally ill" - at least for the simple reason that there is no such thing as "mental illness".

It appears that, in all our commemorations of her, we still sadly do not point out that she was a VICTIM and a SURVIVOR of the most vicious forms of "Psychiatry" (Greek for "mindhealing").

She "experienced" it at probably its most evil apogee - the USA in the 1950s.

The Rosenbergs were electrocuted to death. So were many others by other racist US executioners.

In another act of violence, Sylvia was electrocuted too, don't forget. Poor, poor soul.

How can what is essentially an execution method be a medical process?

It can't - and it is a horrific endictment of the complacency of Medicine, Law and the whole of our civilisation that this wicked crime continues at all.


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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN ELECTROSHOCK (ICBE):

http://intcamp.wordpress.com/ban-ect/

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Psychiatry's Electro-Convulsive Shock "Treatment" ("ECT") is wholly unnecessary, totally pointless, totally bogus scientifically and a crime against humanity.

It is very damaging. 

It is - we must never forget - like so much of psychiatry - AN ACT OF VIOLENCE.

Frankly, I am surprised the Royal Engineers haven't been round to all "E.C.T. Torture Stations" and evacuated the people and then "burned the hole" with a few good old Bangalore Torpedos and blown the fuckers up! Then put the Nazis who run them on trial.

Get on with it. UBIQUE QU FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT! 

What shocks me - if you'll pardon the pun - is the utter apathy about the issue. 
Where are Bono and U2 for example? 
Are they busy sipping champagne with Elton John? Or watching the beautiful oil fields?

I have emailed Sue - shown above and she is an inspiration - a living saint if ever there was one! 
She was really friendly and kind to me.
She does all she can to end this nightmare for millions. Wow!

It has happened on a massive scale in the UK since the 1950s at least. 
It was originally "experimented with" on vagrants.

Like I say elsewhere, doctors are concerned enuff about boxing to campaign systematically and in an organised way for its abolition.
Why the silence about this wicked crime?? - an embarrassment to what is left of "Medicine"!!

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To even talk of "voluntary electrocution" - as a Professor of Medicine did to me yesterday - I sincerely find offensive.
Would one talk of "voluntary kneecapping"?......



The Nazis - A Warning from History. Psychiatry - A Warning from Right Fucking Now!

The Nazis - A Warning from History.

Psychiatry - A Warning from Right Fucking Now!


"The Myth of Psychotherapy"

In my experience the formal "Psychotherapist" or "Clinical" Psychologist - whilst not a poisoner nor a jailor - is almost equally criminal and potentially damaging as the Psychiatrist.

Psychotherapy too is not just a "Myth" as Szasz diplomatically inferred with his 1988 title - "The Myth of Psychotherapy" - but also a lie and potentially a crime - like its ally "Psychiatry". Still at least they won't poison, torture or imprison you. I am shocked however at their lack of vocal opposition to such things - to say the least.

To be conciliatory, REBT - the originator of CBT - as an example of a "psychotherapy" - is a very sound filosofy of life. IMO. And that is a point - it is simply an opinion really. And hence should never ever be imposed.

I personally feel the need for "therapy", "counselling" or "advice" to recover from the crimes comitted against me by people who are at least supposed to be helping me. Tragic!

And of course what I really want and need - what we all need really - is love and compassion. Also - not available from "therapists".

NOTA BENE: "Therapy" as a concept and a word can only really be PHYSICAL by the way; and applied to physical activity only! This is important. 

Hence the piece of language "psycotherapy" like my old enemy "psychopathology" is practically criminal. 

"Psychopathology" as a piece of language alone - let alone an "activity" - in particular is totally wicked and immoral.

..................... t.b.c.

Setting oneself up as a "therapist" or "psychotherapist" and even charging money for it, implies that one has some kind of SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE or SKILL that enables you and hence your "client" to deal with life - as we all have to - in some kind of superior way.

Is that really the case?

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21.11.18.

What I have written above - which I am led to believe has been read by 17 people - is FAR TOO HARSH. 

"Far too harsh" is also a description of the "mental health system" which is what I was being ravaged by when I wrote most of this blog. In spite of this, I am quite happy with the blog overall.

Therapy and / or counselling CAN OF COURSE HELP. They can be vital.

A point to be made is that just a friendly chat with psychological insights is very helpful and all that therapy should be basically.

I am once again all the way with Szasz and his views on the subject as expressed in "The Myth of Psychotherapy".

I also point to his argument for developing what he called Iatrologic - or the art of healing words!







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"The Hospitals That Make You Sick"

I am at present RECOVERING from being in a hospital.

Yes. Totally illogical isn't it? Welcome to the pure illogicality of the crime that is "psychiatry".

These are - in the title of a "Big Issue" article of the year 2000 -
"The Hospitals That Make You Sick."

I still have a photocopy of the extensive article.

In 2000, I photocopied it and sent it in a letter to a "Psychiatrist" who had happily imprisoned me and thousands of innocents time and time again.

The "doctor" gave me no reaction or recognition of having received this wonderful article.

Did people like this join the medical profession to be jailors?

These prisons - and they still exist today in 2013 - are such a complete waste of resources at a time when supposedly we are lacking in funds and resources.

This practice of incarcerating large numbers of people without trial in fake hospitals for no reason other than being an inconvenience or an annoyance sadly begun - at least as a fake medical practice - principally in England.

Later on, the Soviets and many others used this fake medical discipline to incarcerate "enemies of the state". In the "West" victims of capitalism still fall victim to this criminal system far more innocently.

It is to be hoped that England will be a place where the movement to end this practise will prosper and prevail.

The answer is to establish the human rights for which World War 2 was fought.

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It makes me laugh when people say :-

"What do you want us to do instead?"

This is like someone saying :-

"What do you want me to do instead of kicking your head in as you lie supine on the floor?"

I am clearly not required to answer anything other than the following :-

"What you should do instead is simply not kick my head in whilst I lie supine on the floor!"

:D

If I were again asked the absurd question :-

"What should we do instead?"

I would reply :

"Give people their freedom!".

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