Dr. Jeffrey Schaler on Psychiatry as a Fraud

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Actor Tom Cruise created quite a stir on June 25 when he called psychiatry a "pseudoscience," asserted a chemical basis for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder doesn't exist, and said that anti-depressant drugs masked problems-in-living. He used the actress Brooke Shields as a case in point, citing her postpartum depression, engendering a fair amount of hostility from those who disagreed with him, including Ms. Shields. The New York Times published her rejoinder on July 1. Cruise was criticized by psychiatric apologists and sycophants as irresponsible and dangerous for speaking his mind -- and the truth.

A lot of people seem to have misunderstood what Tom Cruise said. It is not necessarily the case that he's a Scientology-brainwashed wacko, or that his ideas about psychiatry even came from the Church of Scientology. Cruise learned a lot about psychiatry from the writings of psychiatric abolitionist Thomas Szasz. Throughout the world, Szasz is considered an intellectual heavyweight, someone whose ideas about medicine, disease, science, liberty and responsibility should be taken seriously.

http://theszaszblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/cruising-szasz-by-jeffrey-schaler.html

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[MatthewSforcina]

Money is the religion

Money is the god

Psychiatry is just another branch of greed and control for an elite society that fears its 'beasts of burden'

[The7776]

You are totally right!!! These evil "psychiatrists" have NO business prescribing this poison to ANYONE!!

But what is more troubling is a parent who would bring a two year old to see a psychiatrist in the first place. Then allow the psychiatrist to prescribe "medicine" to

a two year old??????

I hate to say it but; "parents" who can't put up with a child acting as such, have no right having any. They will have to live with their SELFISH STUPIDITY everyday!!!!!!

Whatever that poor child did?

[ColonelMcboot]

Well, medical science was never always the mighty force it is now. Think about it, doctors used to go about 'Curing' people by slicing all their limbs off, covering them in honey then dancing until midnight. Psychological treatment may not seem completely flawless yet, but in time, advancements will be made! And that my friends is the beauty of science.

[AlirezaBehzadnia]

@The7776 sometimes you need to stop being irrational n start thinking.

think about autism, think about schizophrenics and bipolars , who are suffering from all these disorders. autism can be recognized at age of 2... many psychiatrist are helping ppl. you just don't understand how. and i feel sorry for psychiatrist, cuz they've to go through this, due to lack of knowledge in the society

[RunLiberty]

Ron Paul 2012 for President

Paul if fan of Szasz both libertarians

[msss432]

@mulletrow ask any oncologist there is no cure only "treatments".... so the fuck what? Cancer shouldnt be treated based on your logic or does it not exist? Because cures dont exist the disease doesnt?

[msss432]

There are no clinical tests or imaging for headaches.... they can't be proven.... yet no one argues they dont exist... while there is a history of psychiatry controlling people in the past... and certainly abuses of the practice exist but it is unbelievably stupid to claim mental illness doesntt exist.... "personality" and simply being different doesnt explain the long list of mental illness that cause distress and lack of functioning in people's lives....

[crud4]

@scooma1 And yes, libertarian socialism would minimize the emotional suffering many people seem to be going through. I'll take that as a solution over Scientology any day. Everything is fucked up in our society- our schools, our communities, our priorities.....our very social consciousness has been warped by capitalism and their henchmen (at times they've actually used psychiatrists to manipulate the public). This isnt to say people don't suffer from mental problems no matter which culture.

[crud4]

@scooma1 Also look into Edward Bernays. "The Century Of Self" is a great documentary.

[crud4]

@scooma1 I don't deny psychiatry is a giant...no I mean GIANT fraud..what needs to be discussed is the cause of the modern social neurosis( it's not some alien) . It's a sick society and there will never be a perfect utopia but what we see now is a result of targeted, how shall we say, brainwashing? It sounds so paranoid to say society is brainwashed but look up Edward Bernays. He colluded with capitalists to mind fuck the entire world. BREAK THE SPELL. COPY/PASTE= youtube code= Myu74VAN92Q