NYT's offers a platform for the whores of medicine, once again.
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Subject: NYT's offers a platform for the whores of medicine, once
again.
Date: Aug 29, 2009 9:40 AM
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Um, no.
http://www.actionlyme.org
There are only 3 scientifically valid axes of brain compromise:
Genetic, Organic, and Traumatic, and the rest is scientifically
proven free will:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the human instinct to do unto
others as you would have them do unto you. Your mind can justify
double standards, it seems, but in your
heart you know you’re wrong."
Seems we've gotten on someone's nerves, eh?
I am going to tell you one thing, and of course, I don't expect
you to believe me only because I am saying it: I do not
care about penises or sex. 'Probably because I am a scientist
and I recognize that the most important thing anyone could be
doing with their time if they have the talent, is fixing people.
Healing them of illness.
Now, some might say that that is because I tend to be like
the EMTs or fireman whose motivation is the self-glory
of being a hero, to which I would counter, no, I was in
environmental biology before chemistry.
I wanted to be a forest ranger and take care of animals.
No animal would kiss my butt and thank me for protecting
them would they?
It's about them, not me.
I love animals. It can't be helped. Perhaps it is that
typical female attraction to cute little things that most of
us come hardwired to be attracted to and adore.
While I was studying environmental biology, I realized
chemistry was the ultimate science and the way to
unscramble every question of physical life.
Ultimately, psychiatrists status (and what scares the hell
out of these psychiatric tards) is this: They do nothing
to help anyone, they do nothing medical, all of the medicine
causes brain damage:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
they're mostly whores for BigPharma and BigInsurance (they'll say
anything under oath for a buck), they ruined the soldiers in the last
two
Gulf Wars with their lies about the source of their complaints (all
of
which turned out to be scientifically valid
http://www.lymecryme.com/rich_text_21.html ),
and their insano pervert theories about human motivation have only
made our society more debased, corrupt and dysfunctional.
They have *DONE* *NOTHING* of any good for mankind, and
lastly, they have never said a single thing about torture, although
the
American Psychological Association - to some degree - struggles
to rationalize it.
Let me propose an opposing dynamic to this jerkoff's, below
where the will plays a role in illness...
Or maybe you get it by now.
http://www.actionlyme.org
Kathleen M. Dickson
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/opinion/29hoffman.html?pagewanted=print
August 29, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Freud’s Adirondack Vacation
By LEON HOFFMAN
SIGMUND Freud arrived in Hoboken, N.J., 100 years ago today on his
first and only visit to the United States. He came to lecture on
psychoanalysis and to receive an honorary degree from Clark
University, in Worcester, Mass. It was, he said, “an honorable call,”
a mark of his academic success. Freud was then 53 and had been
practicing for 23 years.
At the time, most doctors here and in Europe still considered mental
illness to be caused by “degeneration” of the brain. They assumed that
there was little to be done for it beyond physical treatments like
diet, exercise, drugs, rest and massage. But a growing awareness that
the mind could influence bodily functions was giving rise to debates
about the nature of the unconscious mind.
G. Stanley Hall, the president of Clark and the first person to earn a
doctorate in psychology from Harvard, invited American scientists to
hear Freud’s ideas about the unconscious roots of mental illness.
William James, the philosopher and psychologist, was among those who
attended, as were other prominent academics, like Adolf Meyer, who
would become perhaps the most important psychiatric educator in the
first half of the 20th century, and Franz Boas, the father of American
anthropology. Emma Goldman, the noted radical, who was also there,
remarked, “Among the array of professors, looking stiff and important
in their caps and gowns, Sigmund Freud, in ordinary attire,
unassuming, almost shrinking, stood out like a giant among Pygmies.”
Speaking in German and without notes, Freud delivered five lectures
covering the basic principles of psychoanalysis: hysteria and the
psychoanalytic method, the idea that mental illness could arise from a
person’s early experience, the importance of dreams and unconscious
mental activity, infantile sexuality and the nature of transference.
When Freud learned that James would attend only one day, he chose that
day to speak on the interpretation of dreams and the power of the
unconscious. After the lecture, the two men spent more than an hour
alone together. James would later express ambivalence about Freud’s
ideas. “They can’t fail to throw light on human nature,” he wrote,
“but I confess that he made on me personally the impression of a man
obsessed with fixed ideas.”
While accounts of Freud’s visit have inevitably focused on this
conversation with James, a less-known encounter with another prominent
American scientist would become far more significant — for the two men
and for the future of psychoanalysis in the United States. This person
was James Jackson Putnam, a professor of neurology at Harvard and a
leader of a growing movement to professionalize psychotherapy in the
United States. Putnam and many other scientifically minded people were
trying to counteract the growing influence of spiritual healers, who
had been trying to treat the mentally ill with religious and mystical
approaches. He had recently attended the first medical conference on
psychotherapy, in New Haven.
After listening to Freud at Clark, Putnam invited him and the other
psychoanalysts who had traveled with him to the United States — Carl
Jung (who also lectured and received an honorary degree at Clark) and
Sandor Ferenczi — to spend a few days at the Putnam family camp in the
Adirondacks, after the group visited Niagara Falls. Freud marveled at
Putnam Camp, “where we had an opportunity of being acquainted with the
utter wilderness of such an American landscape.” In several days of
hiking and feasting, Putnam and Freud cemented a strong bond.
It was, Freud would later write, “the most important personal
relationship which arose from the meeting at Worcester.” Putnam lent
his stature to Freud’s ideas, promoting the psychoanalytic approach as
a way to reach those patients who had been considered incurable.
“There are obvious limits to its usefulness,” Putnam wrote in 1910,
“but nevertheless it strikes deeper than any other method now known to
psychiatry, and reaches some of these very cases to which the terms
degenerative and incurable have been applied, forcing us to recast our
conception of these states.”
Talk therapy offered a message of hope, in contrast to the pessimism
that came with theories of hereditary illness and degeneration.
Looking back on his trip a few years later, Freud wrote that it had
been encouraging: “In Europe I felt as though I were despised; but
over there I found myself received by the foremost men as an equal.”
Putnam would go on to become the first president of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, in 1911. And psychoanalytic ideas would
fairly rapidly become part and parcel of American culture and
psychiatric education. Freudian terms like transference, the
unconscious and the Oedipus complex entered the lexicon. And mental-
health practitioners embarked on in-depth studies of their patients’
idiosyncratic life stories from childhood on. Thanks in large measure
to Putnam’s work, psychoanalysis would become — and remain for 100
years — an ingrained and respected approach to treating mental illness
of all kinds.
Leon Hoffman, a psychiatrist, is a co-director of the Pacella Parent
Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
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