I have been reading more from MeTZelf website and thought of posting this piece on entitled Forensic Psychiatry in the Netherlands. This is the speech of Mira de Vries a member of this non-profit association dedicated to inform everyone. More that we imagine our society has been, is and will continue to live under the dictatorship of doctors. Below is an excerpt, if you are a thinking person I can assure you that the whole speech the few minutes it will take. metzelf.info/Reports/TBS.html ......... What is psychiatry? Psyche means soul (mind, personality) and -iatry means medicine (in Dutch, literally: healing). And medicine, it is assumed, is based on science. But the first requirement of science is that the object under study is observable, and the human soul is not. I hear someone in the back row thinking, “We can observe human behavior.” But then we arrive at the second requirement of science: that the environment is controllable so that all variables can be ruled out. For instance, when animal behaviorists run experiments with mice, all the participating mice live in identical cages and consume identical diets. You can’t do that with people. There are too infinitely many variables. There is also a third requirement for science: that the results are repeatable. An example from chemistry, at my level of knowledge on the subject, is what happens when you mix vinegar with baking soda. It fizzes. This will happen every time, regardless of who does the mixing, regardless of where it is mixed, regardless of who is looking on, and – very important – regardless of who paid for the vinegar and baking soda. You don’t achieve reliable results like that with human behavior. Medicine means the art of healing, but nobody in psychiatry ever heals, nobody. Psychiatrists don’t even speak about healing or recovery, they speak about managing. The word has to be said all over the world in English to sound more learned. Managing (in English) means managing (in Dutch). So psychiatrists speak of managing mental illnesses, or disorders, or whatever they call them. Their favorite words are psychoses and schizophrenia. However, they can’t demonstrate the existence of these disorders. They mumble about neurotransmitters, but it isn’t possible to test neurotransmitters in the human brain. That can only be done in mice (or rats). You kill the mouse and immediately dunk it’s head in ice water to cool it down, otherwise the neurotransmitters will disintegrate. Then you take out the brain, cut a thin slice from it, and put that in a centrifuge to spin out the neurotransmitters. But you can’t do it with a human, because, aside from ethical concerns, even the head of a child is too large to cool down fast enough to prevent the neurotransmitters from disintegrating by the time you get to the brain. So there is no proof whatsoever that neurotransmitters are involved in misbehavior. Not even the misbehavior of mice, not even in mice who hear voices or have personality disorders. Now I’m not saying there’s no such thing as crazy people. Take, for instance, that creep in Austria with his daughter in a cellar, assuming what we read in the papers is true. Who would do such a thing? A madman of course, who else? The speaker before me gave a definition of crazy. He said it means strange. I agree with that. Crazy means bizarre, beyond understanding. Just as the word managing does not take on more meaning when said in English, the word crazy does not take on more meaning when said in medical pig Latin: psychotic, schizophrenic. Psychiatry is not about managing psychoses and schizophrenia; these conditions cannot not even be demonstrated to exist. There are no objective tests for them, and the so called experts doesn’t even agree on what these words mean. The DSM – often called the psychiatric bible – doesn’t define the word psychoses, and the word schizophrenia is defined so broadly that that it can be and often is applied to people who have not one deviant characteristic (deceivingly called “symptom”) in common. And as if that isn’t vague enough already, many psychiatrists don’t bother with the criteria in the DSM. What psychiatry is all about, is managing psychotics and schizophrenics, or rather, people so labeled. So psychiatry is about managing people. That’s why we have forensic psychiatry, but not forensic cardiology or forensic gynecology. I already said that no one in psychiatry ever recovers, but people do become worse, and then I’m not even referring to the awful physical deformities, trembling, involuntary movements, and so forth. I’m talking about behavior. An earlier speaker discussed the issue of crimes committed while on leave from the forensic psychiatric clinic. There are even cases of people convicted of, say, setting fires, or self-exposure, who, while on leave from the forensic psychiatric clinic, commit murder for the first time in their lives. You go in as a nuisance and come out as a murderer. Why? ......
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:32:20 +0000
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