THE MEDICALIZATION
OF REBELLION.
Consider, as you read
the following fascinating article by Sheldon Richman, that along with the attitudes
described below, which are so very deeply inbred into our entire international
social system, whatever the race or religion, and fully integrated into the
psyche of the Elite, we also have the other onslaughts in progress which are
intended to break our minds, souls and spirits.
Here I speak of not
only big pharma which is in bed with the entire sick business called
psychiatry, but also vaccines, fluoridated and drugged water, chemicals in our
food;~ sadly, you all know the list.
Also, in the creation of mind control slaves, drugs and the attitudes described below are one and the same, except with intentional training, the "master" has no compunction in viciously punishing or dealing with such behaviours as even thinking of rebellion.
Add a dose of Freud
and Bernais to shape the mindsets of the people, two Jews who changed the
inner workings of the Western world and not for the betterment of the ordinary folk whom, even Bernais’
daughter says “He despised.”
By Sheldon Richman
April 20, 2012
In 1861 Samuel A. Cartwright, an American physician, described a mental illness he called “drapetomania.” As Wikipedia points out, the term derived from drapetes, Greek for “runaway [slave],” and mania for madness or frenzy.
Thus Cartwright defined drapetomania as “the disease causing negroes to run away [from captivity].”
“[I]ts diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well
known to our planters and overseers,” Cartwright
wrote in a much-distributed paper delivered before the Medical
Association of Louisiana. Yet this disorder was “unknown to our medical
authorities.”
Cartwright thought slave owners caused the illness by making
“themselves too familiar with [slaves], treating them as equals.”
Drapetomania could also be induced
“if [the master] abuses the power which God has given him over his fellow-man, by being cruel to him, or punishing him in anger, or by neglecting to protect him from the wanton abuses of his fellow-servants and all others, or by denying him the usual comforts and necessaries of life.”
He had ideas about proper prevention and treatment:
[I]f his master or overseer be kind and gracious in his hearing towards him, without condescension, and at the same [sic] time ministers to his physical wants, and protects him from abuses, the negro is spell-bound, and cannot run away.If any one or more of them, at any time, are inclined to raise their heads to a level with their master or overseer, humanity and their own good requires that they should be punished until they fall into that submissive state which was intended for them to occupy in all after-time.They have only to be kept in that state, and treated like children, with care, kindness, attention and humanity, to prevent and cure them from running away.
DYSAETHESIA TOO
The identification of drapetomania is not Cartwright’s only
achievement. He also “discovered” “dysaethesia aethiopica, or hebetude of mind
and obtuse sensibility of body ~ a disease peculiar to negroes ~ called by
overseers, ‘rascality.’”
Unlike drapetomania, dysatheisa afflicted mainly free blacks.
“The disease is the natural offspring of negro liberty ~ the liberty to be idle, to wallow in filth, and to indulge in improper food and drinks.”
Cartwright, I dare say, was a quack, ever ready to ascribe to
disease behavior he found disturbing.
A far more informative discussion of the conduct of slaves can
be found in Thaddeus Russell’s fascinating book, A Renegade History of the
United States.
Have things changed much since Cartwright’s day? You decide.
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) list Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) under
“disorders usually first diagnosed infancy, childhood, or adolescence.” (Hat
tip: Bryan Hyde.) According to the manual:
The essential feature of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persist for at least six months.It is characterized by the frequent occurrence of at least four of the following behaviors: losing temper, arguing with adults, actively defying or refusing to comply with the requests or rules of adults, deliberately doing things that will annoy other people, blaming others for his or her own mistakes or misbehavior, being touchy or easily annoyed by others, being angry and resentful, or being spiteful and vindictive.
ED: Being spiteful and vindictive is a Talmudic trait, is it not?
MARKED ON A CURVE
In diagnosing this disorder, children are marked on a curve. “To
qualify for [ODD], the behaviors must occur more
frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable
age and developmental level”. The behaviors must also be seen to impair
“social, academic, and occupational functioning.”
The parallel with drapetomania is ominous. Children, after all,
are in a form of captivity and as they get older may naturally resent having
decisions made for them. They may especially dislike being confined most days
in stifling government institutions allegedly dedicated to education (“public
schools”). Some may rebel, becoming vexatious to the authorities.
Is that really a mental, or brain, disorder? PubMed Health, a website of the National
Institutes of Health, discusses treatment and prevention in ways that suggest
the answer is no.
“The best treatment for the child is to talk with a mental health professional in individual and possibly family therapy. The parents should also learn how to manage the child’s behavior. Medications may also be helpful.”
As for prevention, it says,
“Be consistent about rules and consequences at home. Don’t make punishments too harsh or inconsistent. Model the right behaviors for your child. Abuse and neglect increase the chances that this condition will occur.”
STRANGE ILLNESS
It seems strange that an illness can be treated by talk and
prevented by good parenting.
And how was four arrived at as the minimum number of behaviors
before diagnosis?
Or six months as the minimum period?
Odd, indeed.
While ODD is discussed with reference to children, one suspects
it wouldn’t take much to extend it to adults who “have trouble with authority.”
Surely one is not cured merely with the passing of adolescence.
Adults are increasingly subject to oppressive government
decision-making almost as much as children. Soviet psychiatry readily found
this disorder in dissidents.
Let’s not forget that the alliance of psychiatry and State permits people innocent of any crime to be confined and/or drugged against their will.
So we must ask: Do we have a disease here or rather what Thomas Szasz, the libertarian critic of
“the therapeutic state,” calls “the medicalization of everyday life.” (Szasz’s
chief concern is commonly thought to be psychiatry, but in fact it is freedom
and self-responsibility. See my “Szasz
in One Lesson.”)
It seems that the common denominator of what are called mental (or brain) disorders is behavior that bothers others which those others wish to control.
Why assume such behavior is illness?
Why stigmatize a rebellious child with an ODD “diagnosis”?
(Let’s not forget what psychiatry not long ago regarded as illness and abetted
control of.)
SCIENTISM
In our scientific age, many people find scientism, the application of
the concepts and techniques of the hard sciences to persons and economic/social
phenomena, comforting.
In truth it is dehumanization in the name of health.
People do not have to be told that malaria and melanoma are diseases. They know they are. But people have to be told, and are told over and over again, that alcoholism and depression are diseases.
Why?Because people know that they are not diseases, that mental illnesses are not “like other illnesses,” that mental hospitals are not like other hospitals, that the business of psychiatry is control and coercion, not care or cure.Accordingly, medicalizers engage in a never-ending task of “educating” people that non-diseases are diseases.
No one believes drapetomania is a disease anymore.
Slaves had a good reason
to run away.
We all have reasons
~ not diseases
~ for “running away.”
ED: I have no problem
with “running away” but more importantly, there must be a “running towards”
involved.
Excellent article and a very appropriate image at the top - great film ;)
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