Gary Edwards's List: Health

• Psychiatry's Views  on Conservatives

   

  "In August 2003, the  National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science  Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million  taxpayer-funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists  are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of  Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social  conservatives, in particular, suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’  ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with  associated indicators for mental illness."

• Psychiatry's Views  on Education

   

  "Every child in  America entering school at the age of five is insane because he  comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers,  toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a  supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a  separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick  children well – by creating the international child of the  future"
• Teaching school children  to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred  "the sustaining force behind individualism."
• "Education should  aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus  schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their  lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters  would have wished
• The social psychologist of the future will  have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try  different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow  is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that  influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and  repeatedly intoned are very effective ..
• When  the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in  charge of education for more than one generation will be able to  control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
• "…through schools  of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government –  one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men; one  that will postulate the need for scientific control and operation of  economic activities in the interests of all people."
• "Education does not  mean teaching people to know what they do not know – it means  teaching them to behave as they do not behave." 
• "This is the idea  where we drop subject matter and we drop Carnegie Unites (grading from  A-F) and we just let students find their way, keeping them in school  until they manifest the politically correct attitudes.
• You see,  one of the effects of self-esteem (Values Clarification) programs is  that you are no longer obliged to tell the truth if you don’t feel  like it. You don’t have to tell the truth because if the truth you  have to tell is about your own failure then your self-esteem will go  down and that is unthinkable."
• "Education is thus a  most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of  humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour  once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem  the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?"
• "Despite rapid  progress in the right direction, the program of the average elementary  school has been primarily devoted to teaching the fundamental  subjects, the three R’s, and closely related disciplines…  Artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics, multiplication tables,  and formal writing movements, are used to a wasteful degree. Subjects  such as arithmetic, language, and history include content that is  intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject is enlarged  unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal of thoroughness… Elimination  of the unessential by scientific study, then, is one step in improving  the curriculum."
• "We can therefore  justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the  proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be  incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity  in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of  professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching  profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and  medicine."
• "...a student  attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right  or wrong"
• "A large part of what we call good  teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by  challenging the student's fixed beliefs.  …a large part of what  we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education  to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings."  
• "The educational  system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country  are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape  inspection."

• Psychiatry's Views  on Religion 

  "Religion (is) a  universal obsessional neurosis."
    Sigmund Freud, defining spiritual belief
• "I regard myself as  one of the most dangerous enemies of religion"
    Sigmund Freud
• "The soul or  consciousness, which played the leading part in the past, now is of  very little importance; in any case both are deprived of their main  functions and glory to such an extent that only the names remain.  Behaviorism sang their funeral dirge while materialism – the smiling  heir – arranges a suitable funeral for them.
• "…humanists still  believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the  prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and  understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them,  is an unproved and outmoded faith." "
• "We can therefore  justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the  proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be  incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity  in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a  number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching  profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and  medicine."
• "To achieve world  government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their  individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and  religious dogmas..."

• Psychiatry's Views on  Creating a Slave Society

   

  "We can choose to  use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of  before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully  selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of  personhood."
• Teaching school children  to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred  "the sustaining force behind individualism."
• "It will of course,  be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance  in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in  controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the  common wheel."
    Edward Thorndike, Key Psychology Theorist, member of the  "Eugenics Committee of the USA"
• "We need a program  of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The  purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from  the given norm can be surgically mutilated.
• The individual may  think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this  is only his personal point of view. . . Man does not have the right to  develop his own mind. . . . We must electronically control the brain.  Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electronic  stimulation of the brain." 
• "Education should  aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus  schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their  lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters  would have wished
• "One of the least  understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly  toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of  obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New  World Order."
• "Those of us who  work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total  control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act.  These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by  the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can  produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A  "utopia" could be found – providing "a sense of  stability and certainty, whether realistic or not."
• We shall  not solve the problems of alcoholism and juvenile delinquency by  increasing a sense of responsibility. It is the environment which is  'responsible' for the objectionable behavior, and it is the  environment, not some attribute of the individual, which must be  changed.
• "If all else fails, punishable behavior may be  made less likely by changing physiological conditions. Hormones may be  used to change sexual behavior, surgery (as in lobotomy) to control  violence, tranquilizers to control aggression, and appetite  depressants to control overeating."
    Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner in "Beyond Freedom and  Dignity"
• "The State is the  absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence,  truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State."
    Hegel (who influenced Karl Marx)

• Psychiatry's Views  on America

   

  "America is a  mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake  nevertheless."
    Sigmund Freud
   
    America is the most grandiose experiment the world  has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
    Sigmund Freud
• "To achieve world  government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their  individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and  religious dogmas...
• "One of the least  understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly  toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of  obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New  World Order."

• Freud on Marxism 

  "The strength of  Marxism obviously does not lie in its view of history or in the  prophecies about the future which it bases upon that view, but in its  clear insight into the determining influence which is exerted by  the economic conditions of man upon his intellectual, ethical and  artistic reactions."
    Sigmund Freud
• Basically,  all that is necessary to revoke all the constitutional rights of any  citizen is to accuse him of being mentally-ill."
• John A. Stormer, "None Dare Call it Treason"
• "Old conventions,  customs and values… to be challenged… The aim should be to control  not only nature, but human nature." He recommended two slogans  for "spreading world-wide the gospel of mental hygiene":  "To learn to think internationally" and "The necessity  to disarm the mind."
    Dr. J.R. Lord, psychiatrist
• "Public life,  politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of  influence…. If we are to infiltrate the professional and  social activities of other people I think we must imitate the  Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity!   If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the  salesmen, must lose our identity… Let us all, therefore, very  secretly be ‘fifth columnists.’"
• The techniques of  brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in  psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children.
• These  include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation  from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative  cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values by  psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not  confined to separate courses or programs...they are not isolated  idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous  books and other educational materials in programs packaged by  organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the  techniques to teachers.
• Some packages even include instructions on how  to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away  psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries  to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing  assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing  programs in China under Mao.
    Thomas Sowell, writing in Forbes, 1991
• "The very term  ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words  cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a  mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise  space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental  illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words  "mental" and "illness" do not go together  logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does  mental "health."
• These terms indicate only approval or  disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking,  emotions, or behavior).
    Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, in "The Death of  Psychiatry", 1974
• "Contrary to the  popular public conception, this happenstance is NOT a form of health  care, but the result of a fraudulent system being granted police  powers by the State.
• By calling the harmless 'insane', (who statistics  prove to be no more violence-prone than the average citizen, unless  hopelessly deranged by damaging psychiatric 'treatment'), dangerous  and justifying their own existence by the 'need' to deal with that  inflated 'danger', the mad-doctors themselves pose the greatest threat  to liberty, property and democracy in our times."
• Citizens for Higher Ethical Standards in Medicine
• "Mental illness is  often used as an ad homonym to discredit the individual. This has been  a common use of psychiatric diagnosis in psychiatry in Russia. "  ... there are two main groups [of schizophrenia patients] ... 1)  people admitted to the mental hospital long before they had been  political dissenters ... 2. others who ... have put forward complex  social and economic theories as alternatives to orthodox  Marxism..." 
    Wing, cited in "Pseudoscience in Psychology", by Dr.  Szasz, p. 126
• "It is no measure of  health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.."
    J. Krishnamurti
• "...the  subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass  Psychology.... The populace will not be allowed to know how its  convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected,  every government that has been in charge of education for a generation  will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of  armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has  succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise."  
    The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell
• "A Trojan horse full  of dangerous psycho-fantasies has been professionally prepared for us  by Christian psychiatrists and psychologists...  At the base,  such therapies stand upon dogma, not scientific observations, and the  dogma is the odious one of Freud and his followers who were some of  the century's most anti-Christ teachers.  No amount of  well-intentioned refinement of deadly doctrines will make them clean  for Christians."
    Dr. Hilton P. Terrell, M.D
• "Advocates of  psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning  and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is  true.  There are no drugs that improve mental function,  self-understanding, or human relations.  Any drug that affects  mental processes does so by impairing them."
• "Psychotherapy may  be known in the future as the greatest hoax of the twentieth  century."
• "Nearly half a  century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart  from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists,  both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The  result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that  psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of  its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all  consciousness." 

• We  must learn to recognize them for what they are - possessors of no  special knowledge of the human psyche, who have, nonetheless, chosen  to earn their living from the dissemination of the myth that they do  indeed know how the mind works".
    Psychiatrist Garth Wood, M.D., in "The Myth of Neurosis",  1986

   
• "In the 14-year  period between 1950 and 1964, more American deaths occurred in  state and county mental institutions than in all of the nation's armed  conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War and ending with the  Persian Gulf War.  Between 1965 and 1990, the total number of  mental-hospital inpatient deaths exceeded the number of battle deaths  in the same wars by 70 percent.  Inpatient deaths topped out at  1,103,000 during this 25-year period, compared with 650,563 recorded  deaths in battles."
• Kelly Patricia O’Meara: "The Forgotten Dead of St.  Elizabeth's", Insight Magazine, June 16, 2001
• "The similarities  between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are  disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the  brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of  mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important  to recognize that the only significant difference between many  prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as  "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs  are legal."
• Neuro-psychiatrist Sydney Walker in "Dose of Sanity"
• "Clearly this  business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating  young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a  stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going  on."

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