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Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one.
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Many anti-authoritarians who earlier in their lives were diagnosed with mental illness tell me that once they were labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis, they got caught in a dilemma. Authoritarians, by definition, demand unquestioning obedience, and so any resistance to their diagnosis and treatment created enormous anxiety for authoritarian mental health professionals; and professionals, feeling out of control, labeled them “noncompliant with treatment,” increased the severity of their diagnosis, and jacked up their medications. This was enraging for these anti-authoritarians, sometimes so much so that they reacted in ways that made them appear even more frightening to their families.
“...Authoritarians, by definition, demand unquestioning obedience...”
Well... THAT ain’t gonna happen, for sure...
Well, the mentally ill won’t walk silently to the showers this time.
ADHD = loud, Autism Spectrum = quiet.
Both disobedient.
State must medicate!
I like the gummint, and you don’t SO YOU ARE SICK..!
And you shall soon be taken away.
Sort of like that GE liberal arts class you had to take in college, with the insanely liberal prof, and you got downgraded if it seemed you didn’t have the same assumptions.
If an authoritarian with bad political arguments and a questionable ideological foundation can transform a political disagreement into a medical one, then (s)he can avoid the troublesome and frightening task of engaging in a logic-centered argument.
There is a place where this was a leading strategy —the Soviet Union.
And we are FAST headed there.
Didn’t agree with the Nomenklatura..? Kay, well then the Zampolit sent you to Doctors, who then carted you off to a Sanitorium for “treatment”.
The virtue of independence is one's acceptance of the responsibility of forming one's own judgments and of acting in accordance with the conclusions of one's own mind. The mind is an attribute of the individual and no person can think for another. But to be oppositional and reject authority for no objectively good reason, just because the other person is an authority and they feel like it is subjectivistic egoism and is actually a form dependence on others.
I have steered clear of any involvement with ‘Mental Health’ professionals when I learned that;
MD Psychiatrists, the highest level of such, have to undergo psychoanalysis themselves.
The highest order of brainwashing is required before you can certify that somebody else is sufficiently brainwashed.
Sorry, but I and my savior will be responsible for my soul (psyche).
See Thomas Szasz MD’s work, The Myth of Mental Illness. The late Szasz was originally from Russia, and saw dissidents diagnosed as “mentally ill” for criticizing the central government.
Today’s “mental health” counsellors may be well intentioned, but they do love to check boxes for any personality differences. These will be deemed a mild “disorder.” And justify their continued jobs.
This “mental illness explosion” in turn gives Obamacare officials an avenue to confiscate Americans’ guns.
Steer clear of well meaning psychologists who must ‘diagnose’ you to justify their salaries, read Szasz, he’s brilliant.
One of the most interesting threads I have read on FR - well done!
The comments posted were excellent also...
Everyone should obey those in authority, especially the police. You’d have to be crazy not to.
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