Into the belly of the beast.
[quote]John K wrote:
What you’re missing here is that there are some branches of psychology that study biological processes, such as how sensation and perception are captured from the external world by the nervous system, interpreted by the brain, etc. (See psychophysics Psychophysics - Wikipedia )[/quote]
Psychobiology is completely valid and legitimate, I agree. Unfortunately, mainstream psychology has more to do with cloaking cultural indoctrination under the guise of “medicine” than any real scientific endeavor.
[quote]CuffDunk wrote:
There is a lot more to psychology than Freud style lie-on-the-couch therapy, which is almost never practiced anymore.[/quote]
Which is a shame, since Freud and the other pioneers weren’t operating as shills for the State and medical establishment, unlike today’s practitioners.
[quote]CuffDunk wrote:
There is a lot of solid and useful information to be had about the human mind, and most of it comes from clinically controlled studies combined with field work.[/quote]
I don’t consider that type of material to be part of “psychology”. I consider it philosophy, plain and simple. It’s modern day philosophy on living your life. There is no need to drape it with a pseudo-scientific label. It’s purely subjective and it always will be. I won’t deny that listening to various peoples’ takes on how to live life can be quite fascinating. Once turned into law, however, it becomes idiocy and hypocrisy.
[quote]Qualay wrote:
I guess if a psychiatrist can give a suicidal patien t drugs for a little while, help them figure themselves out, take them off drugs and get them back on track then they are completely useless.
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The question has to be asked: Useless or useful to WHO? Who benefits from having the formerly-suicidal patient continue living and (in all likelyhood) become a prescription drug addict? It’s rare for psychological “cures” to be limited to single intervention. More frequently, once you’re in, you’re there for life.
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
Feed them Krill and Coconut Oil…that should work…[/quote]
Yes. Either that, or help them build the individual fortitude to lift themselves out of their miserable states.
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
(Do you SEE how all this self-righteous dribble sounds, and how impractical it is when dealing with the care of millions of the mentally ill?)[/quote]
No, I don’t see that at all. “Mentally ill” is a term that can only legitimately describe one of two things:
- A state of nutrient deprivation (as in the case of EFA’s) which renders the biochemical processes of the brain temporarily unable to be function properly, and can be readily addressed by correcting these nutritional deficiencies.
or
- A state of perpetually low self-esteem due to parental & peer group indoctrination.
There is no other form of “mental illness” in existence. Period. It is a myth.
There are no “mental patients” with normal or high self esteem! ALL of them are simply individuals who lack the mental and emotional fortitude to confront life and society. See the movie or read the book titled, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, in which the inner strength of the charismatic protagonist essentially “cured” the rest of the patients in the ward by giving them the courage to start living again.
You know what kind of drugs would really be of use to the “mentally ill”?
Anabolic Steroids.
That and weight training.
That’s how you build self esteem. That’s how you give people a reason to live.
There is one class of mental illness which is widely considered to be “untreatable” in the psychological field. Naturally, that would be psychopathy, sociopathy, anti-social personality Disorder (APD), and all it’s variants.
And why do you think that is? It’s precisely because these are the only so-called “mental disorders” in which the “patient” suffers from an ELEVATED self-esteem (indeed, a “grossly-overinflated sense of self worth”, according to the literature), rather than the REVERSE of this condition.
So what’s the lesson here? It’s that it’s impossible to “treat” a person who doesn’t believe that there’s anything wrong with him. The textbooks clearly state as much in the case of sociopathic criminals – they “refuse treatment, insisting that they haven’t done anything wrong and there is no reason for them to feel guilty”.
On the other hand, it’s the easiest thing in the world to make a victim out of a weak person. Indeed, the weak practically demand to be punished, or somehow enslaved. Victimized, in other words.
And that’s the joke science of psychology, in nutshell. One massive cult of victimization.
Read “The Myth of Mental Illness”, written by Thomas S. Szasz, a PSYCHOLOGIST(!)
P.S. You should be honored to know that you’ve just finished reading a post that was written by a person who fits nearly all of the criteria outlined in DSM-IV and other sources for “Antisocial Personality Disorder”. That makes me a state-sanctioned Psychopath, so I must know what I’m talking about. Pay attention, kids.
