Foreboding, yes, but accurate, yes. Which is worse than foreboding because the reality of what occured in the Sovieet Union by way of "psychiatry" is among the most amoral, inhumane and vile misdeeds ever in the history of human civilization.
And, that's exactly where -- as this neurologist so accurately writes -- what exists today as "liberalism" is headed in the U.S.: a recreation of the worst from the old Soviet Union and more...communist/marxism at it's most ardent extreme.
This is an excellent article and even moreso because it's written by a physician, and a neurologist at that, given that neurologists and orthopaedists are known among other physicians to be the brightest of their classes and later, specialties.
I'm glad he explained in his own language as to the nature of the diagnosis process, also, by panels of psychiatrists, as to, especially, how homosexuality was declassified (I wrote about this a week or so ago somewhere on FR), and that it reflects social opinion and nothing else (but, the social opinion of the panelists involved, and nothing else).
Today, there seem to be many people among psychologists and psychiatrists who are apologists of and about homosexuality, if not themselves homosexuals (after listening to the latest APsychiatricAssn. President with her nasty comments about this issue...she did nothing to engender trust and confidence, let me put it that way, but seemed entirely similar to that old Soviet twisted psychology that this doctor refers to, and it gave me pause when I heard her for just that reason).
Last thing, is that, to homosexuals, almost ANYone who does not participate or sympathize is deemed "homophobic," and Christians, particularly, are assumed to be. Which emphasises to my view how disturbed most homosexuals are ("disorded" in their "thinking" to quote Pope Benedict) -- because, I know of no fear OF the affliction but I do know of dislike for the sin, rejection of the sinful and the sin. My response involves no fear, however, and most Christians I know feel similarly.
However, through the clouded, "disorded thinking" of homosexuals, to reject their choices is to "fear" homosexuality. It emphasises to me how disorded their thinking actually is, some form of obsessive compulsive paranoid something.
"Foreboding, yes, but accurate, yes. Which is worse than foreboding because the reality of what occured in the Sovieet Union by way of "psychiatry" is among the most amoral, inhumane and vile misdeeds ever in the history of human civilization."
Yes.
"And, that's exactly where -- as this neurologist so accurately writes -- what exists today as "liberalism" is headed in the U.S.: a recreation of the worst from the old Soviet Union and more...communist/Marxism at it's most ardent extreme."
No.
There are real problems in the mental health community but it not like you describe. Some of the new tools are being overused or used by people who are not qualified (even worse) who have a financial motive rather than trying to help.
But many mental issues are being shown to have chemical components. There is resistance to this much as there was resistance to the idea that ulcers are usually caused by a bacterial infection and not by stress.
It doesn't do an y good to label this as liberal or communist or anything else - it is apparently the way God made us and studying and trying to help with issues is good, not bad. M.D.'s with training in psychiatry are the best choice.