Comments on: There are heroes: Peter Breggin https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/ NoMoreFakeNews.com Sun, 05 May 2019 16:46:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 By: Bill https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41758 Sun, 05 May 2019 16:46:01 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41758 I agree with your comment on Dr. Szasz. I think his work and legacy speak for themselves. Breggin has the stench of psychiatry all over him. He believes in mental illness when it suits him.

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By: Cultural Transmissions https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41757 Sun, 13 May 2018 18:21:53 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41757 Why The Institution Of Psychiatry Is Fake

https://culturaltransmissions.com/why-the-institution-of-psychiatry-is-fake/

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By: Curmudgeon https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41756 Tue, 08 May 2018 21:34:17 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41756 As disgraced, i.e. truthful, Nobel winning geneticist Dr. James Watson has opined, there is so much we don’t know about the combination of genes and their effects. So it is with body chemistry.

Take, for example Dr. Terry Wahls, who was wheelchair bond with progressive MS, yet used food to reverse the process. https://terrywahls.com/about-the-wahls-protocol/ A few years ago, I spoke with an Olympic level speed skater, who used the protocol to reverse her own MS and return to competition. They refer to the body’s lack of micro-nutrients, and the need to replenish the body with them. They insist, every body is different and there is no one size fits all diet. They are, however, highly critical of the food production in North America, which is chock full of food additives – that is to say chemicals. The effect of many of those chemicals, whether on the farm or in the processing, is largely unknown.

It’s not that I disbelieve the statement “chemical imbalances in the brain—is an unsupported and convenient speculation, designed to market toxic drugs” as much as I believe it is incomplete.
MS is a neurological disorder. Any psychosis involves neurology at some level. Is the connection micro-nutrients? Homosexuality was seen as a psychiatric disorder, but that was de-listed without a shred of evidence that it wasn’t. The prime directive of any organism is to reproduce itself. Denial of that prime directive is a form of suicide, and therefore harmful to the individual and the species. I’m not gay bashing. I had a family member who was a homosexual, and worked with others. I felt sorry for their delusions.
Back to Dr. Watson: there’s so much we don’t know.

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By: JB https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41755 Sat, 05 May 2018 13:02:47 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41755 Much as I appreciate what Dr Breggin has done about the drug fraud, he has not gone far enough. Jon is welcome to Pete being his hero. I don’t have any heroes, because hero adulation is an acknowledgement of one’s own impotence. The closest anyone comes to it for me is the late Thomas Szasz, who characterized the profession for what it is–a fraud built up on mendacity, collusion, and prostitution. (The practice of hypnosis falls precisely in these categories and is a substitute for long-term, life-changing genuine empathy.) Admiration and appreciation would be better terms toward such individuals.

It has long been known that men who seek out the sex prostitute often do so for not just the sexual ecstasy, but a listening ear. That makes the profession of psychiatry, like sexual prostitution, one of paid empathy–the kind that normally comes from people who are genuinely interested in your well-being out of friendship–agape love–without remuneration. In most cases, the lack of this kind of love is traceable to family/clan dynamics. Jeffrey Masson left the field because he could not in clear conscience take money from people who expected him to listen to their problems when he truly did not care. Empathy training is a crock. As long as money changes hands on it, and there is a professional body with Regulation behind it, it remains pseudo empathy. It is a fraud.

To verify what I had been reading in the literature, I engaged psycho “therapists” on occasion over a 20 year period to ascertain for myself if the process actually works. I found what Dr Bergin described from his sifting of professional studies in the 60s: the only clients who actually improved from talk “therapy” were those whose therapist exhibited benevolence, methodology having no discernible impact whatsoever on outcome.

At best, the practice is little more than “Friendship-for Hire”, and I can say unequivocally, when the remuneration goes away, so does the “friendship” (or empathy).

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By: JB https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41754 Sat, 05 May 2018 12:34:04 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41754 I’m pretty much with you on this, too.

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By: Survival Stockpile https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41753 Fri, 04 May 2018 01:01:16 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41753 https://survivalstockpile.com/2018/05/03/psychiatry-and-the-great-fraud/

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By: SM https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41752 Thu, 03 May 2018 10:46:12 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41752 Thanks Greg, that was a really nice thing to read before bed. It reminds me of something Wayne Dyer said when you are in a ‘vigorous discussion’ with a loved one, “If you have a choice between being right and being kind, be kind.”

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By: Ozzie Thinker https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41751 Thu, 03 May 2018 04:07:38 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41751 I’m still not with you on this one, Jon.

Putting a righteous straightjacket over someone for the “greater good” is not empathy. It is a crusader effect that has caused the problems that face the world. The powers capitalise on “us versus them”. It is the foundation stone of all wars.

Best
OT

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By: BDev https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41750 Wed, 02 May 2018 13:39:48 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41750 +1000

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By: flyingcuttlefish https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2018/05/01/there-are-heroes-peter-breggin/#comment-41749 Wed, 02 May 2018 08:09:57 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=21186#comment-41749 On another front – What’s Bloomberg up to??
“Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $300 million to the school to establish the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, a program aimed at reshaping the nation’s public-health agenda”
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Gifts-Roundup-300-Million/237826

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