PSYCHIATRY QUACKERY

by Dr. Robert

An excerpt from: Green Anarchist No. 60 - 61



Dr Robert on drug therapy and the psychiatric establishment

In the 1960s, the late RD Laing, Anti-psychiatry psychiatrist, in parallel to the German-based Socialist Patients Collective (SPK.), proposed the idea that mental illness is in fact a totally sane and rational reaction to a sick society living in an insane and irrational environment.

Laing understood that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy had failed, mainly serving the financial interests of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as serving the interests of those who profit from controlling our sick society. He also understood that drug-therapy, the mainstay of psychiatry for the masses, was a colossal fraud which served many and varied purposes, not least the profits of the drug companies.

The present continuation and expansion of drug-based therapy in the treatment of mental illness is testament to the thoroughly criminal and corrupt state of modern psychiatry. Over several decades now, sufficient evidence has emerged to prove that of the one in four of the British population who at some point in their lives are 'treated' by psychiatrists for a mental illness, those who resist drug therapy when they realise it is making their condition worse generally recover to a state of wise mistrust of the medical profession and society at large, whilst those who continue to take their medications, specially if these medications are psychiatric tranquilisers, never recover from their 'illness' and generally deteriorate in both mental and physical health, it being widely known in psychiatry circles that the majority of drugs prescribed cause serious brain damage.

As all psychiatrists know, these drugs are totally ineffective in the 'treatment' of mental illness. The main purpose for their prescription being that they make patients docile and controllable, the spirit broken and bendable to even the weakest-willed psychiatric nurse or doctor.

Laing set up a series of experimental communities in the late-1960's whereby people could live either communally or semi-communally and travel through their mental disturbances without recourse to conventional psychiatric treatment. All of these communities were largely successful until the 1980s when Laing's health declined from chronic alcoholism, and the psychiatric establishment muscled in on the act. The experiment then failed when psychiatrists who were being paid £60 an hour sabotaged the principles upon which the communities had been established by imposing their own rigid order upon the anarchy and chaos which was proving to be a brilliantly radical cure for schizophrenia, psychosis and depression.

One of the last communities of the experiment to collapse was at a small farm in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, where the members of the community found that regular magic mushroom parties and non-attendance at the mandatory prescribed twice-weekly meetings with the psychiatrists was the best therapy! The members held out against the psychiatrists with notable success until the financial plug was pulled, ending the community.

The message in this essay is clear; society is sick. If you suffer a mental or nervous breakdown then that is a sure indication you are sane, so if a head-shrinker offers you pills or injections, just say no.