The real story of psychiatry Rife with theories, opinions and in disarray What was emerging in the late 19th century and what would become ‘modern… Read More »2. Rockefeller Foundation and the failure of psychiatry as a science
The real story of psychiatry Psychiatry’s public credibility was in trouble Part 2 of this series, Rockefeller Foundation and the failure of psychiatry as a… Read More »3. Psychiatry’s lack of science masked by pharmaceuticals
The real story of psychiatry No causes, no cures This is an examination of a subject that began around 150 years ago and promoted itself… Read More »1. The real, simple story and the beginnings of ‘modern’ psychiatry
A sadistic and idiotic fraud If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients,… Read More »The lunacy of lobotomy
Taken from the publication “Mental Health,” Vol 1 No. 4 of October 1940. Summary of an address given at the Annual Meeting of the National… Read More »“Strategic Planning for Mental Health” J R Rees, 1940
Mass murder and sterilization Aktion T4 is the mass murder and sterilization of the disabled and patients of psychiatric asylums by psychiatrists and the directors… Read More »Aktion T4 – psychiatry’s eternal shame
“The father of modern psychiatry.” A protege of Wilhelm Wundt, Emil Kraepelin has been lauded as the father of modern psychiatry. It is hard to… Read More »Emil Kraepelin – prelude to mass murder
In 1938 the first use of ECT on a human being occurred in Rome, Italy. This act was done by neurologist Ugo Cerletti and his student… Read More »ECT: At least the pigs stopped screaming
A lobotomy, or leucotomy as it was originally known, was a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal cortex and left many a shell of their former selves
THE FIFTH ESTATE. Convicted sex offenders at an Ontario psychiatric facility were sent to be therapists for women with mental illness at another forensic institution… Read More »Psychiatric treatment or torture? The Oak Ridge experiment
DR MARK KOMRAD Per Lanterna: A psychiatry ethicist’s viewpoint on the rising trend of psychiatric euthanasia based on government edict and historical comparisons. This informative… Read More »The Role of Psychiatrists in the U.S. Eugenics & Sterilization Movements and the Nazi Holocaust
Back in the day, those labelled ‘undesirables’ were put into mental asylums and kept in isolation. Today, those houses of horror have been refurbed for… Read More »History of New Zealand’s asylums and a look at where are they now