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IMPORTANT
FACTS
1. Psychiatrists told
governments that they could deliver the world from delinquency and unhappiness—at
a huge cost. Psychiatry remains long on promise and short—in fact empty—on delivery.
2. In 1930, 3 million
American adults could not read because they had never been to school; in 1990,
40 million adults—most with 9 to 12 years of schooling—could not read.
3. In Britain, over two
million people are illiterate and in Germany, more than 800,000.
4. Between 1965 and 2001
in the U.S., drug abuse for children and adolescents soared more than 2,900%.
In Germany, three quarters of the country’s teens have used hash.
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FIVE Children Cast Adrift
Eliminating the basics of education “is one step in improving education,” psychologist
Edward Thorndike told us. The “mental hygienists” said that school could be
the focal point for “detecting, preventing, and fixing personality disorders.”
And neurotic children, psychiatrist Brock Chisholm said, were caused by the
“poisonous certainties” fed to them by their parents and the frustrations brought
about by the unworkable concepts of good and evil, right and wrong.
In the hope of “improved mental health,” the World Federation for Mental Health
told governments that the family should be weakened to “free children from the
coercion of family life.”
They boldly asserted that the school has the responsibility “to detect the
physical and mental disabilities which have escaped [the] parent.” Psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt called for “freedom from morality.”
In the wake of World War II, psychiatrists testified before the U.S. Congress
in support of the need for more psychiatrists. They claimed that future victims
of mental illness and their families could be spared suffering and that the
world could be delivered from delinquency and unhappiness. However, true to
their long-established pattern in every field of human activity, psychiatry
remains long on promise and short—in fact empty—on delivery, as well as simply
dangerous.
What is the legacy of psychiatry and psychology’s dangerous drugging and meddling?
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