IMPORTANT FACTS

1. In the aftermath of World War I, churches accepted the �help� offered by psychiatrists and psychologists to resolve social problems and were betrayed.

2. In 1940, psychiatry�s stated master plan included taking over every major field of social endeavor, including religion. Leading British and Canadian psychiatrists flagrantly touted the need to eliminate religious values, replacing religion with a �mental health state religion.�

3. The family unit, long held sacred by religion, was purposely weakened by psychiatry�s World Federation for Mental Health, which considered it �the major obstacle to improved mental health.�

4. Every sector of society which has been �engineered� to fit psychiatry�s specifications has suffered decay.

CHAPTER TWO Psychiatry�s Assault on Religion

After World War I, churches faced an immense human and social catastrophe. The �tribunal� of modern mental science did not waste this opportunity to advise religion that it had �done little to prevent� the war and its consequences.

Out of genuine concern for unity and peace, churches accepted the altruistic-sounding �help� of the new �sciences� to resolve social and political problems. Psychiatry and psychology provided a seductive vision of how they could assist. Dr. Charles Dana, professor of disease of the nervous system at Cornell University Medical College in New York, stated: �He [the psychiatrist] must help and uplift the religion of those who have any and give a religion or high and positive ideals to those who have not. He must show them how to live happily and to use with scientific efficiency the forces which nature has given them.�

However, the outstretched hands that offered help carried only the poisonous fruit of betrayal:

In 1925, behavioral psychologist John B. Watson stated, �No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started. � It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.� In 1928, he added, �No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.�

In 1926, at the Sixth International Congress on Philosophy, K.N. Kornilov said of psychiatry: �The soul � which played a leading part in the past, now is of very little importance.�

In 1940, psychiatry unleashed its chilling offensive to bring about global dominance over all major fields of social endeavor, including religion. As mentioned in the introduction of this publication, it was spearheaded by two of the Commonwealth�s leading psychiatrists, who, together, would go on to found the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH).

John Rawling Rees laid out the �Strategic Planning for Mental Health� and psychiatry�s �responsibility� to take over the fields of education, law, medicine and the Church, further stating: �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!�

1Rees�s associate and a leading Canadian psychiatrist, G. Brock Chisholm, augmented this master plan in a speech in 1945: �The race will not be saved unless it is freed from its confused and distorted emotional and mental functioning. � The reinterpretation and eventually [sic] eradication of the concept of right and wrong, which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith � are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. � The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists � have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely. If the race is to be freed from the crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility �. [P]sychiatry must now decide what is to be the immediate future of the human race; no one else can.�

In 1948 Rees and Chisholm�s fifth column plan was implemented globally with the formation of the WFMH. Chisholm and Rees presided. At an inaugural conference entitled �Mental Health and World Citizenship,� psychiatrists further expressed their latent ambitions for political and social control. Religion was identified as a target of choice� for �mental health orientation�: �It should be recognized that an acceptance of the mental health viewpoint � carries an obligation to examine critically some of the teachings of the church in the light of present-day insight into what seems to be essential to wholesome personality development and into what is now known to be detrimental to the growing personality of the child.�

Thus, while traditional religion was subjecting itself to critical self-examination in the wake of two terrible world wars, the mental health ideologies seized the opportunity to drive the stake further into the heart of religion.

Psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan suggested that psychiatrists, like all great �religious leaders, prophets and even Jesus Christ,� should bring religion up to date.

And so they did.

The following year, for example, Reverend Leslie Dixon Weatherhead of the Methodist Church in England joined with psychiatrist Percy Backus to establish psychiatric clinics as extensions of parishes and advocated electroshock, deep sleep treatment (a combination of drugs and electroshock�also known as prolonged narcosis), psychosurgery, tranquilizers and hypnosis as adjuncts to Christianity.

The fruit of these strategies is all too real. Society�s moral structure has been and remains under concerted assault, battered by divorce, unemployment, drug abuse, illiteracy and an epidemic in teen crime. Every sector of society which has been �engineered� to fit psychiatry�s specifications has suffered decay.

Those to whom families turned for spiritual guidance for centuries�the clergy�had come under the controlling hand of the mental health �expert.�

��Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern [psychiatric] treatments.�
� William Sargant, British psychiatrist, 1974

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