My Lord, Michelle is classic goofball, nice girl but neurotic.
Eric's Mom was a trip.
Love the Seinfeld episode where Kramer blows the shrinks mind.
Posted on 05/05/2019 1:19:36 AM PDT by Pontiac
In 1979 Dr. Paul McHugh closed the sex-change clinic at Johns Hopkins. In the ’80s he testified against phony ‘recovered memories.’ He hasn’t given up the fight.
Paul McHugh, 87... A professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a tenacious skeptic of the crazes that periodically overtake his specialty, Dr. McHugh has often served as psychiatry’s most outspoken critic. Either he’s crazy, or all the other psychiatrists are.
The best-known, and most controversial, decision of his professional life is newly relevant—and recently reversed. In 1979, as psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he shut down the Gender Identity Clinic, which performed sex-change operations. In his view, the hospital had "wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it," as he wrote in 2004. In 2017 the clinic was reopened as the Center for Transgender Health, performing what it now calls "gender-affirming surgeries." Its medical-office coordinator, Mellissa Noyes, told me "the demand is massive."
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As department head, Dr. McHugh encouraged a colleague to conduct follow-up research on patients who had undergone sex-change operations.
Although most of the patients "were reasonably satisfied with the change, they hadn’t any improvement in any of their psychosocial issues that were the whole reason for doing it in the first place." Worse, some of the patients became "suicidal and depressed and regretful." There was not enough good evidence to determine before the fact which candidates for surgery would fall into either group. With no way to predict which patients would be hurt by the operations, Dr. McHugh decided he could not allow them to continue. He says shuttering the clinic was a matter of adhering to the Hippocratic Oath and the scientific obligation to ground conclusions in empirical evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at tat.xbopp.com ...
Who knew?
But he is in his 80s so he won't be there long.
A fairly long article but worth the read.
Here is the reason for the entire Transgender movement.
Money
Who would have guessed?
Insurance typically will only pay for about a month of psychiatric therapy (as I remember).
But surgical care is not nearly as limited.
You’re not going to cure anyone of gender dysphoria in a month and your not going to buy a house in the Hamptons treating a dozen or so people a year with the condition.
But do surgery on a dozen or so transgenders a year and you have your house in the Hamptons.
That itself is the grace of God, for I am sure the vindictive rage of the Left and prohomosexual activists has been laid against him for daring to oppose its agenda.
Most current Johns Hopkins medical students, Dr. McHugh says, won’t talk to him. "They think that my views must be motivated by hatred," he says, sounding baffled.
That reaction is one itself that should be a subject of psychoanalysis, as a product of indoctrination by those who engage in the psychological tactics of the Left :
" It can show them being criticized, hated, shunned. It can depict gays experiencing horrific suffering as the direct result of homohatred-suffering of which even most bigots would be ashamed to be the cause. It can, in short, link homohating bigotry with all sorts of attributes the bigot would be ashamed to possess, and with social consequences he would find unpleasant and scary... our effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof." ( After the Ball)
Sometimes psychiatry’s cure is far worse than the disease.
A true statement.
Dr. McHugh argues that the treatment of returning soldiers for the liberally applied PTSD diagnosis is another example of iatrogenesis. Such diagnoses are far rarer among Israel Defense Forces veterans, who experience plenty of trauma. Israelis "know that you can get a terrible psychological reaction out of a traumatic battle. And they do take the soldiers out, and they tell them the following: ‘This is perfectly normal; you need to be out of battle for a while. Don’t think that this is a disease that’s going to hurt you, this is like grief. You’re going to get over it, it’s normal. And within a few weeks, after a little rest, we’re going to put you back with your comrades and you’re going to go back to work.’ And they all do."By contrast, American psychiatrists say: " ‘You’ve had a permanent wound. You’re going to be on disability forever. And this country has mistreated you by putting you in a false war.’ They make chronic invalids of them. That’s the difference."
The possibility that Dr. McHugh is wrong doesn’t trouble him. "Either the plastic surgeons and the transgender psychiatrists are right and I’m wrong—and if that’s the case, they will have done a lot of good by opposing me, and I will have been a drag on the system—or the opposite. Suppose they’re wrong and I’m right? They will have mutilated thousands of children, and I will look good. Who do you think is sleeping better at night?"
What is sure is that God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified - and only condemned homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.
Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47
Eric's Mom was a trip.
Love the Seinfeld episode where Kramer blows the shrinks mind.
>>He says shuttering the clinic was a matter of adhering to the Hippocratic Oath and the scientific obligation to ground conclusions in empirical evidence.
Empirical evidence means little to the politically motivated. It’s why we are where we are with climate change hysteria as well.
Shrinks seeing dollar signs. It was probably a mistake to include mental health on insurance plans.
Talk about Orwellian speak right out of 1984. "Gender affirming surgery" is anything but that. It is the complete denial and desecration and shunning of one's own gender. "Gender affirming" my ass.
Yes, it was. I am sure a study, if information still exists from 50 or so years ago, would see a huge jump in women especially being hospitalized or just on an outpatient basis, for Electric Shock Treatments for such things as anxiety or panic attacks. And, how about those lobotomies and women? Women, traditionally, have been the losers regarding the insanities of mental health treatment since Freud's day. Now, it is the trans-gender madness which is even worse. Money is the major motivation for this, but, in our day, politics may be the most powerful driver of the insanity and harm coming to real people who will be the ones to suffer the real consequences and life long grief for being so treated. My hope would be that medical researchers who go for these kinds of things would suffer jail time so that they would not be able to enjoy those homes in the Hampton's on the backs of the suffering. Makes me so mad to read about these insanities and to know that we learn NOTHING from the past, from our nation and others.
for l8r
If someone has a problem with his sex, he needs to adjust his mental attitude to reality, not chop off his schmeckel and let his hair grow long.
Even as an ignorant undergrad I could see that there was nothing scientific about it. The events of the past 40 years or so have underscored it.
Psychiatrists/psychologists are the reason (the vile plague known as) homosexuality is eating away at civilization. Psychiatrists/psychologists are the reason tens of thousands of clinically insane people are roaming the streets and living in tents/boxes.
The success rate of psych experiments validating the original hypothesis is 3 times higher than in the hard sciences. This indicates that psychologist use experiments to prove what they already hope is true, not to seek what actually is true.
Psychology is one pathetic “profession”. It is populated by misfits, LIB losers, deviants and, generally, society’s unwanted. Psychiatry as a “profession” is similar. It has the lowest respect of any of the medical specialties. The scientific method is perverted and warped by these people to provide support for their kooky ideas. Peer review is politicized. Studies are almost never replicated. What a pathetic joke. Look at both professional associations (APAs). Basically they push LIB ideas to destroy civil society. What embarassing malgnancies eating away at civil society...and generally not helping those who might need mental health care.
It makes no difference who says it isn't. The fact remains.
Such people should be regarded with kindness and assistance, as should those suffering form any congenital abnormality, but to say that this affliction is normal is simply not the truth.
Yes, their are folks in the profession of psychology that fit your description. But you're painting with a pretty broad brush. I say that as a mental/behavioral health professional myself.
A friend of my wife’s is a sought after doctor for PTSD treatment. Her therapy basically consists of a session where they watch a video, then she gives them a hug and then they are cured. The lady has explained it to me herself, but I have to admit that I am not the world’s greatest listener. There probably is a bit more to her “treatment plan” like cuddling a kitten or something and in the past my wife has gotten mad at me for making fun of her. But I will admit that at least her “treatment” does no harm and a lot of time if people believe that they are cured... that is all that matters and they can move forward with their lives.
It is certainly better than my wife’s sister who has been on psychotropic meds forever after spending 28 years in the Air Force. She never left the country or was in harms way but claims she has PTSD because some of her coworkers were mean to her. Now her daughter who spent 9 months in the Middle East claims she has PTSD from living on an airbase in an airconditioned tent.
As always there are those who really do suffer from deep psychological wounds that sometimes take a long time to get over. I myself saw numerous nasty situations during my career that I consciously try to avoid thinking about. And I know many others who had some bad experiences as well. But this new obsession with PTSD provides a never ending income stream for psychological professionals from government coffers and if their patients can get one of them to diagnosis it they get extra money every month as well and sometimes a complete package where they do not need to work at all.
30 years in private practice as a licensed clinical psychologist in wdc made my brush very broad...and me very cynical.
...by the way the WDC swamp is heavily populated and VERY deep.
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