That is when Psych and Sociology got the big influx of draft deferment majors and the New Left was really feeling its oats.
They had to do something with all the fresh diplomas, so they created a need through studies for their services.
A lot of people who couldn't hack it in other majors or who were trying to 'get their head together' ended up writing their own ticket and using the general population (especially the welfare class) for lab rats. It isn't over yet.
To: Shadow44
“Psychiatry was hijacked by the Left decades ago and stopped being scientific in the 70s.
That is when Psych and Sociology got the big influx of draft deferment majors and the New Left was really feeling its oats.
They had to do something with all the fresh diplomas, so they created a need through studies for their services.
A lot of people who couldn’t hack it in other majors or who were trying to ‘get their head together’ ended up writing their own ticket and using the general population (especially the welfare class) for lab rats. It isn’t over yet.”
I was in a business where Pyscs were a customer for some of our medical products. Even in the 1960’s to early 70’s, it was a field with a lot of weird guys.
As you noted in the 1970’s the so called profession was over run by the deviates of the left. By the 1980’s these deviates had basically taken over the power structure.
So they joined forces with the left wing lawyers, ACLU, social workers, and teacher unions and started working on their new normal where the deviates became the normal and the rest of us became the looney toons.
Now homosexualism or pro homosexual is the new norm. Pro non RX drug is the new norm. If your political views are different from the left wing, you are a knuckle dragging right wing bible thumping redneck fanatic.
The one rx drug area they have pushed are the treatments of the so called hyperactive, AD and etc. They lined up with the teachers unions to force young boys on Ritalin and similiar drugs. Now that has expanded to keeping adults on that family of drugs.
Now, the nuts/deviates/deranged pyschs are in charge working 24/7 to define their new normal with the help of the ACLU, left wing lawyers, teacher unions and liberal legislators at all levels.
Interesting is how a few female psychs have got past this left wing bs and provide good care to patients with appropriate conseling/therapy and the use of appropriate Rx therapy.