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Beyond_Ideologies
Jul 17, 2015, 4:37:28 PM7/17/15
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Interesting book
I am pressing on. I have reread AM's Thou Shalt Not Be Aware and Pictures of a Childhood, and skimmed Untouched Key and am no reading Banished Knowledge. It would be now well over 20 years ago that I originally read them.
Until the last 2 years I had no idea that Autism / Aspergers fit into the picture of what AM was talking about. I had no idea that it was a realm of Munchausen's by Proxy or of Psychiatric Policing.
I've learned about this Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts. They use aversives, like mild electrical shocks, to treat people who display the behaviors associated with Autism.
I think this Lynn Kern Koegel and her husband Robert at the University of California are a psychological torture only version of the same thing. The people that run both of these labs should be guillotined.
It sounds like with the Rotenberg Center there has be some civil disobedience in trying to shut it down.
What looks potentially like the best forum around is Robert Whitaker's Mad In America.
Now as far as Whitaker's books, no one has to write a book to convince me that psych meds are bad. But more than anyone else, Whitaker has gone on to show that our epidemic of mental illness is CAUSED by psych meds.
This makes perfect sense to me, and now having seen his explanation, it is obvious.
Mad In America
Chaka Khan, Ain't Nobody
Her stage name is actually the name she selected at the age of 15 when in Chicago she was volunteering in the Black Panther's Hot Breakfast Program
from the back of AM's Banished Knowledge, by Colin Chalmers
"... This book's main importance is not really to do with therapeutic issues -- it is much wider and, essentially, political."
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