General Comments on Psychiatry and Modern Psychology
by Gene Zimmer

Don't ever lose sight of the fact that a huge amount of money, time and energy has been invested in promoting and securing the acceptance of the new psychological approach to man and psychiatry over the past century. These subjects cannot stand on their own merits. They stand ONLY because they have been propped up by years of investment, PR, miseducation and (intentional and unintentional) deception.

Genetics is the flip side of the coin I call the "disgusting duo" of modern psychological theory. On the one side you have the concept of stimulus-response and man as the sum total of environmental experiences, behaviorism (also see chapter 2, Leipzig Connection). On the other side there is genetics, the idea that all intelligence, capability, and natural propensities are inherited in one's chromosomes. This viewpoint opens the door to selective breeding, genocide, and the general oppression of anyone who doesn't meet the current standard of who and what are "strong, intelligent, moral or pure". There are physical traits, such as body size, hair color, muscle tone, strength and agility that are to a large degree genetic and inherited. The problem arises when these so-called "scientists" casually transpose an understanding and "science" of physical phenomena to the realm of mental phenomena.

The laws of the mind are completely different and unique, although related to the physical. None of the modern theorists have bothered to effectively examine the mind and ascertain its actual functions, capabilities and tendencies, and instead they have flippantly assumed the mind to be of the same nature as things physical. It's not. This is a very large error and results in serious theoretical mistakes and harmful results when applied.

The lie here is that mental aptitude, IQ, and imaginative ability are not unchangeable genetic physical traits like hair color or body size, and can be improved. Anybody can learn and better at anything if given a workable method of study and a positive environment of loving, caring, aware people. Modern genetic theories, which are, in fact, mere opinions parading as scientific facts, deny the possibility of improvement and enforce limitations.

Nazi Germany took these ideas of genetics and selective breeding to their diabolical logical extreme. German psychiatrists worked closely with the SS and Nazi elite spreading their ideas of racial superiority (and inferiority), genetic supremacy, "good genes", "bad genes", and "racial cleansing". Why give psychological tests? To ascertain who are "dumb", "unable to learn", "inferior", "disabled", and a strain on the society. And since they can't be "fixed" or "improved", the only solution is to get rid of them and their "harmful" genetic line. Off to the showers .... What happened in Germany was the simple logical conclusion of the application of modern psychiatric theories. Many of these German "professors" and psychiatrists came to the USA after the war, being "ignored" as the true criminals they were, and actually were given posts in major colleges and universities. They still believe what they have always believed, although they have changed their tactics and thereby remain hidden and free from ridicule. Their notions also predominate modern "scientific" views and have come to be the accepted modern view of Man. Operation Paperclip is the name of the program involving the secreting of Nazi scientists out of Germany after World War II.

Again, the main error is taking observations from the purely physical realm (physics, chemistry, vegetable biology, animal behavior) and directly extrapolating these theories and practices to Man and his mind (which isn't of the same character, quality, type or nature). Behaviorism does the same thing. Man does have a physical and biological aspect that does conform to the basic laws observed in the physical sciences, but the realm of mind and human ability is entirely different and doesn't adhere to the same laws. Sadly, when man is treated like an animal, controlled like a slave, manipulated like a rat in a testing cage, and denied his true capabilities he deteriorates, eventually mimicking the animals he is treated as, and He then seems to become exactly what the psychiatrists and psychologists say he is, an unchangeable stimulus-response organism, an animal. Under those conditions it is difficult to clearly see and know that man is and can be something else entirely.

Psychiatry: A Mammoth Game of Categorizing "Mental Illnesses"

Psychiatry is basically a field that observes people and attempts to categorize what they call "mental illness" or "mental disorders". Strangely, they admit not knowing what a mind is and never define what a healthy mind is or should be. Without ever defining mental "health", other than as the absence of "mental illness", they never establish a goal or ideal scene for the end result of their methods. Additionally, more and more behaviors that have nothing to do with a mind are called a "mental illness". PMS is listed as a "mental disorder" in the DSM-IV and the psychiatrists would love nothing better than to prescribe Prozac or some other anti-depressant to every woman in the country once a month to handle her "mental disorder". "Homosexuality" was declared a mental illness until it became unpopular to do so, and suddenly it wasn't an illness any longer and was voted out of the DSM-IV! People who shop too much have a disorder. People who work too hard and like it have a disorder. People who drink too much coffee have a mental disorder. I am sure people who pick their noses also also do, even if it hasn't been "discovered" and catalogued yet. Give them enough time and it probably will be. You have to see these people for the true idiots that they are.

First, many of these labels of illness are plain ridiculous. Again, it would almost be funny, the degree of stupidity some of these psychiatrists display, if the results on people and their lives weren't so disastrous. As an example, the definition of "schizophrenia" has changed over the years, until now, no two psychiatrists can or will give you the same definition. So then, what does the wrong even mean or actually refer to? A psychiatrist has the power to prescribe very powerful psychiatric drugs, or electric shock, to a "schizophrenic", yet no two psychiatrists even agree on what one is! One patient gets this drug, another gets that drug, another gets shock treatment, another is hospitalized against his will for 2 weeks, and another given nothing. The same patient can get three different diagnoses, with three different suggested treatments, from three different psychiatrists. Does this sound like a "science" to you? It's not. It's a complex belief system, ideology and orthodoxy parading as science.

Second, people have a general tendency to assume that naming or defining something implies understanding and the ability to control that something. I hear people talking about gravity. One says, "things fall to the ground". Another says, "oh, that's because of gravity". They think they understand something, but actually understand nothing at all. How so? Gravity simply means to most people "things fall to the ground". Few people understand the more scientific explanation involving the concepts of the relative mass of two objects, and the resultant attraction, which still in the end might also only be a conceptual theory that may very well apply to no actual things or events at all. So someone nods their head in agreement and comments, "yeah, things fall because of gravity." They "think" this naming or defining of observable phenomenon gives them understanding, but in fact, they simply have given an observable phenomena a label. They have named it. It is interesting that Shamans, Cabalists and some magicians take great pleasure in naming things, and also expect to obtain great power over things by naming them. But simply by naming or labeling, they can't do anything about gravity, change it, reverse it or negate it. They have experienced things falling to the ground, and invent some imaginary force to explain it called "gravity". But for the most part there is no understanding of anything at all. It's quite delusional. People experience things falling. That's about it. This is true for much of what people conceive and imagine themselves to understand about reality. It is intensely true in the field of psychiatry where various conditions have been named and defined, but no actual understanding of underlying causes or effective solutions exist at all. For more on this see Reality, Belief and The Mind, and Psycho-Mythology: Believed Completely by Psychiatrist.

Let's take a more complex example such as the study of insects. There are hundreds of different names for the various species and parts of an insect body. But naming them all bestows no understanding of how to make an insect, how to change an insect, or how to improve an insect. It is true that learning the names of all the various parts and aspects of a science is necessary before one moves on to actually doing something with it. But too often, simple naming and defining parades as understanding and control, when it is actually neither. This is largely the case in psychiatry, which has catalogued a large variety of human conditions and packages of "symptoms", while failing to address and understand actual causes, and giving as "solutions" destructive methods and treatments that fail to address or correct any real basic causes of the problems.

Third, the traditional sciences deal with the raw physical universe of matter and energy. This includes physics, chemistry, electronics, astronomy, geology, etc. This involves categorizing things or parts under investigation in the respective science, and then observing relationships and reactions between these different things. In the simple mechanics of physics, a falling object was observed, timed, and it was discovered all falling objects fall at the same acceleration and final velocity (if there is no friction). Relationships between objects and force were repeatedly tested, observed, recorded and consistent relationships discovered. For example, a lever and fulcrum can be used to lift a weight heavier than a person could lift otherwise. There are observable phenomena that can be reduced to laws of relationships, which can be counted upon to stay the same over time. Future events can be estimated and predicted based upon the fact that certain events happen the same and in a repeatable fashion with the raw sciences. An object will fall at the same speed today as it did yesterday and will tomorrow. Similar things are true for electronics, chemistry and the other physical sciences. When scientists deal with raw physical material or energy, they have had their most success. As things begin to come "alive", the success decreases. There is a reason for this.

Scientists have experimented with and have had various successes with plant biology, improving crops, and cross breeding. They have developed disease resistant strains.

Moving to animals, the main concern has been maintaining the health of animals, originally for farmers. This crosses into experiments with cross breeding and cloning. I guess the scientist is trying to understand "life" and aims eventually to be able to create life forms out of nothing. Interestingly, as a race, Man hasn't been able to be responsible for the life he has been presented with. What will he do with the life he manipulates or creates? I expect he will simply act even more irresponsibly.

In all these cases the scientist has varying degrees of success, although the 100% all-the-time success rate tends to be had only with the hard physical sciences. But there are still ample results with living creatures. With living creatures the scientist is primarily dealing with organic structure, observations of it, and attempts to control the healthy functioning of it or alteration of it.

Even when dealing with man, as long as the scientists stick to biology, physical structure, bodily systems and functions, he can often get fairly consistent results. But obviously, modern medicine, which pretty much covers these things, is more of a failure than a success. Understanding and helping human bodies is not very good as shown by cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, and other illnesses that are quite out of their control. In the same way as psychiatry, modern medicine never examines, defines and attempts to achieve "health", but instead names and labels various disease symptoms and dysfunctions, and systematically "attacks" them with drugs, surgery, or radiation. Modern medicine largely ignores and fails to understand the true underlying causes of disease, and instead of working to bring about health, waits until it's too late. Then it must resort to cutting, burning, smashing and drugging in an attempt to remove the "illness" or "disease" symptoms in a frantic attempt to regain health. Truthfully, they never remove the disease. They remove a symptom of a disease. Psychiatry, as part of modern medicine, views and attempts to handle things in much the same way by forcing symptoms out of existence.

Modern man has "handled" problems of people and countries often by attacking, burning, and destroying. Modern medicine pretty much takes the same approach. It views the manifestation of a physical disease as an "enemy", as a "bad something", which needs to be surrounded, burned, cut out, removed or simply annihilated. The real solution for countries would have been to develop understanding through discussions, working together, and by creating a harmony of needs and wants. Then they could have advanced in a "healthy" manner together instead of resorting to brute force to handle their perceived problems.

Modern medicine is in the same position. It generally fails to understand the nature of the illness, what caused it, and how to regain harmony of bodily functions and energy to bring about health. Instead, when the cause of the disease has existed for too long, and finally manifested as some physical ailment or condition, then modern "medicine" "attacks" the ailment to destroy it. I guess we shouldn't be surprised. The approach of many modern activities, including politics, government, and economics often resort to simple force and attempts to overwhelm the perceived "enemy" into conforming with required belief and behavior.

While psychiatry has catalogued a tremendous variety of human problems, incorrectly calling them "mental illnesses", they have utterly failed to ascertain the true source of this various human problems. Naturally, without understanding the true source of any problem, there is no way to effectively fix the problem. That is the exact current state of modern psychiatry.

Force: Not Good For Living Things

The IRS threatens, intimidates and uses force or fear of the threat of force to collect taxes. If no one thought the IRS would do anything if you didn't pay your taxes, well who would pay? It's a force-dependent activity. Yes, almost completely. The conflicts in the Middle East, in Northern Ireland, in Communist China, and almost everywhere, as far as governments are concerned, rely on force and the threat of force. Whoever has the most guns, the greatest weapons, and the fastest jets "wins". Their winning has nothing to do with the "rightness" of their political, religious, or economic philosophy. Economics is largely force-based. How? Don't pay your rent, car payment or mortgage and see what happens. A bank representative will be at your door with the sheriff to repossess your car or foreclose on your house. You will be forcibly removed. You property will be forcibly taken from you. Even the urge to live in a dwelling comes down to the unpleasantness or harm the body will sustain from the force of the natural elements such as cold, heat, rain, wind, sunlight and snow. Force sadly controls and directs most of our decisions in life.

Here's the crux of the problem. Positive human qualities such as intelligence, understanding, reason, honesty, responsibility, empathy, concern, care, love, decency, attention, imagination and interest, to name a few, have nothing to do with force, and in fact tend to decrease and disappear under the action of oppressive force. The entire physical universe, including the human body, is composed of matter and energy, and responds to energy and force. Any part of the physical universe can be prodded to action or motion through the application of an appropriate force, and this is what all behaviorism deals with. But the best of human qualities, and the mind qualities, described above disappear and fail when force is directed at the organism possessing these qualities.

Personal responsibility, initiative and creativity stagnated under the communist regime in Russia. Was it because of the philosophy of everybody living together as equals and assisting the group effort. No. That in itself is neither good nor bad. It was the force and the constant threat of force used to exact compliance that disabled the minds of the population. Exert force, in any form, upon a living being, and he or she will deteriorate as a thinking, responsible being.

Freely given interest, creativity and enthusiasm cannot be forced. It just can't be done. Love cannot be arbitrarily demanded and produced at will. True concern for one's fellow man will never appear at the end of a gun barrel. Enforced social awareness is impossible. This is one reason why modern behaviorism and social manipulation can only fail. It is the reason why communism and socialism eventually fail.

My point is that these qualities of Man are not of the same nature or "stuff" as the physical universe of matter and energy. In fact, as described above, when physical universe force or energy is applied to Man, he deteriorates. Always. If you bother to take the time, this would be proven out by observation and could be classified as a "law" or "axiom" relating to the "spirit" or "mind" (call it whatever you want).

Force applied to Man always has negative results, reducing his awareness, perception, attention, creativity and responsibility. His ability to freely enter into life with enthusiasm, interest, and self-determinism also deteriorates proportionally to the use of force upon him.

Another simple phenomena that can be tested, observed and probably deduced to be a "law", would be something along the lines of:

Man responds in like manner to positive "energies" such as understanding, kindness, help, assistance, concern, and agreement.

Walk up to any person and compliment them. Do it sincerely. Find something about them you truly can admire or like and tell them so. They will consistently, one for one, respond favorably, brightening up, with a noticeable and observable increase in interest, excitement, and awareness (or "life"). This will always occur unless they are too far gone already due to past applied force of a political, religious or psychiatric nature. "Life" is a quality all its own. It is observable. But modern psychology and psychiatry ignore and deny it. And so human life deteriorates.

The Mind: "Invisible" But Very Real

The entire area of Man that seems to reside in his head has been ignored and denied by the modern sciences dealing with man and his societies. Man is aware. Man possesses consciousness. This awareness is unique to Man and while usually associated and identified with a human body, is possibly not ultimately dependent upon the human body.

A thought cannot be isolated and examined. A feeling cannot be weighed. A concept in your mind cannot be measured. The music running through your head cannot be quantified. The love you have for your spouse cannot be directly seen by any third party (only the lover can directly experience the actual feeling of love). This is true for every object of experience that occurs within your personal awareness or mind.

This realm of mind is real, although no person can directly see it, feel it, or experience it, except the person whose mind it is. The modern scientist admittedly ignores this completely because he can't subject it to the same type investigation procedures he has traditionally used with things of matter and energy. The mind exists. It is invisible. It is not like what we understand as matter and energy. But just because it's different in substance or nature does not mean it doesn't exist. It simply means it exists in a different way. Due to modern science's decision to ignore the mind as an object of investigation, the mind has never been adequately investigated, charted, researched, or understood, and has definitely not been solved in any way within the traditional scientific fields of psychiatry, psychology and sociology. For more on what the mind is follow this link.

This awareness is the source of the myriad qualities mentioned earlier, such as attention, intention, thought, reason, conceptualization, morality, choice, honesty, responsibility, decency, enthusiasm, and imagination. This isn't an opinion or mystical mumbo-jumbo. It's directly observable. Go out and find 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 instances of responsibility, decency, enthusiasm, creativity, attention, intention or kindness. Verify with each person whether they are aware or not. Don't get complex about it, and just ask them. You know when you are aware and so do they. Just ask them. This will prove itself out. You will never find any of these things coming from a rock, atom, cell, electron, black hole, photon, star, sun, planet, or any pure thing of matter or energy devoid of a mind.

Man is aware. Without getting into any guessing or statements of an unprovabale nature (such as "man's awareness is eternal", "the awareness can separate from the body", etc.), it can be proven to almost anybody that:

1) Man is aware,
2) He or she does best when one's awareness is recognized and validated, and
3) Man's best qualities derive from a clear, uninhibited state of personal awareness.

Modern "Science" Ignores & Denies The Mind

I don't mean to belabor the point, but this area has been ignored for so long by traditional "science" that too many of you may, at first, have a hard time understanding this, although it's really very simple and glaringly obvious. The term psychology has been redefined to omit the mind. Modern science completely ignores it and believes it deserves no attention. Humanistic views come right out and say that they deny the dualism of the mind and body. Psychiatry's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) denies the mind. To them, and to all "modern" scientists (whether psychiatry, psychology or sociology), the most they will allow is that what seems to exist as a mind is at best some by-product of biochemical activity in the brain, which evolved from eons of interaction with environmental forces (i.e. stimulus-response patterns, habits). In other words, consciousness is a habit to them. To extremist environmentalists who view Man as the primary evil to the Earth and all life on it, Man's consciousness is nothing but a bad habit that should be eradicated. To the modern psychologist consciousness is nothing more than an enforced pattern of behavior. To them you are incapable of self-determinism, original thought, will, or personal responsibility. The notion is alien to their conceptual framework of reality.

Psychiatric and modern psychological theories (behaviorism and genetics) completely ignore, and refuse to examine or even admit the existence of this "invisible" aspect of man. This is a devastatingly major error when one considers that life quickly deteriorates in quality and in direct proportion to the degree of force exacted against the organism. Behaviorism is the study of applying force to an organism to exact compliance to desired behaviors. All biological organisms, but especially those with living awareness (i.e. human beings), deteriorate as force is applied to them. This is 100% true. Force should never be applied to a living being if you want to bring out the best in them and encourage a creative, responsible, enthusiastic member of society. Obviously, this is not the goal of behavioral methods, psychiatry or modern governments. If the goal is to control, coerce and exact specific behaviors, then yes, force is the way to go.

Electric shock treatment and brain surgery are drastic measures involving severe levels of force aimed at an organism and entity of awareness. There may appear to be a relative improvement, but this is only superficial and often temporary. A few examples will help explain this. A suicidal fellow is really in bad shape, upset, and unwilling to live. He most likely is the past recipient of earlier psychiatric treatments involving force (either drugs or shock), which have acted to drive him into a state of mental and emotional apathy. Shocking him will disorient him and confuse his mental and body energy sufficiently to often "snap" him out of his current fixed viewpoint of defeat and uselessness. First, the result never lasts and he will relapse. Second, you could just as well have chained him to a bed and he wouldn't have killed himself either. You could render him unconscious by the application of strong sedatives and he wouldn't kill himself. You could beat him with heavy sticks until he was unconscious and he wouldn't have killed himself. In all cases, there isn't any cure of anything, and the overwhelm of force alone temporarily suspends his fixation on his sorry state. Drugs cure nothing. They are "chemical" force and act in a similar way to electric or physical force. Drugs inhibit normal brain activity and eventually cause brain dysfunction. This is the actual cause of any apparent "cures". All explanations of "chemical imbalances" and "corrected brain chemistry" are without any basis in observable fact, despite what various psychiatrists claim, demand and promote to the general public.

The real solution would be to work with him as a living entity of awareness, communicate, grant him his viewpoint, listen, suggest and help him resolve his problems, which resulted in him finally deciding suicide was better than living another day. Realize anyone who is at the point where suicide is a solution has been overwhelmed by force in the past and has been harmed. No additional harm or force, in the guise of psychiatry, behavioral control or social manipulation will help him rise in personal strength and vividness of awareness, and come out of it.

The solution with psychiatry always is to force the "disorder" away through overwhelm either by drugs, shock or surgery. Sure it may go away, temporarily, but the psychiatric treatment also reduces the future potential for individual awareness and all that awareness entails.

Materialism and Science Applied To Man's Mind

The modern scientist and materialist observe a rock, or a molecule or a star and say, "gee, this thing is what it is, it isn't anything else, never changes, and that's the way it is". They look at a flower, or a tree or a dog or a cat, and say, "these things are what they are, and reproduction with similar related life forms results in more of the same". They look at body forms, types, races, and notice how the physical characteristics stay pretty much the same from generation to generation. This is all physical stuff, matter and energy. Then they begin to deal with minds, emotions, thought and intention. First, they fail to ever look at and examine these things in themselves on their own level and within in their own context. Second, they jump right into the huge error of assuming these things are similar in any way to all the physical things they previously observed. They are not, and they follow completely different and unique laws. And worse of all, if you enforce upon a mind according to the laws of energy and matter, it deteriorates and begins to mimic energy and matter. How so?

Matter and energy tend to stay the way they are unless acted upon. In good shape, a human being is creative, originates things, changes his environment as he chooses and is basically a real pain in the neck (at least to status quo, conformist types). He is a causative agent. He sets things in motion. He is creative and makes things happen out and in the environment. But when overwhelmed with force and treated as if he were simply matter and energy, he reduces in awareness and ability and finally ceases to be creative. He originates less, and he causes less. Finally he does nothing,  and simply waits to be acted upon by the environment as an excuse to act. In other words he can only act when given direct orders or forced to. This apparently is the wish of most governments. This is man at his lowest, and he is driven into this state by failing to understand his true nature. He is reduced to this sorry state by treating him as if he were matter or energy and not the mind that he truly is. Strangely, the military loves this type person; the one who follows orders above all else, unthinkingly, almost like a robot.

Modern psychology and psychiatry can't improve anyone's mind or ability. They simply don't know how. They now don't even try. Apparently, because they can't do it and have failed miserably at the task for so long, they assume man is incapable of changing for the better and that no alternative approach to the mind can or would ever produce positive change. They attack as frauds and quacks any group saying it can help and improve minds and mental ability. They are the true quacks and frauds.

Various proponents of "logic" and "modern science" have repeatedly criticized any and all subjects implying anything other than their strictly materialistic approach to man and his possibilities. Anyone with an open mind, some degree of ability to observe, moderate intelligence, and honesty can do some simple research into any number of areas. It is fairly easy to experiment a little, and find methods for addressing, becoming aware of, and improving the capabilities of a mind. Minimally you will discover that a mind (your mind) does surely exist and is not explained by modern psychological and psychiatric theories. Far from a complete list, a few are: Yoga, various meditation techniques, applied Tibetan Buddhism, Scientology, Rosicrucian methods, Dianetics, P.D. Ouspensky's Forth Way, Science of Mind, Unity, New Thought and creative visualization techniques. It is a sad commentary on our modern society that these subjects are viewed with a jaundiced eye. This attitude has been propagated by the media, certain organized religions (who these alternative methods truly threaten), rigid rationalists, atheists, humanists and modern education, to the detriment of us all.

I am not endorsing any specific alternative approach and I will be the first to say there are problems and hurdles to be jumped with each, and none are all-inclusive. But they each do tread upon areas that current psychological theories and practices completely fail to address, explain or handle. And they each get results in ways where current psychology and psychiatry completely fail. That most of us never hear about these things more indicates the degree of information blackout in these areas than anything about the legitimacy of these things.

The mind of Man exists. Your mind exists. The mind of some man or woman is the source of every decent and wonderful thing that has ever existed. Psychiatry, humanistic views, and modern psychology deny your mind and everyone else's too. This continues to have harmful results for individuals and modern societies. It will continue to get worse until this changes. It will have to change drastically.

They say no to your mind, all it is capable of, and all it does. Instead . . .

Say NO To Psychiatry!

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