Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema)
Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha)
„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll)
see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.
see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis, St Martin etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.
Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."
see dali48 and reading & writing about Psychology & Psychiatry and e.g. Freud, Adler, Jung, and Groddeck, Frankl, Fromm, Reich, and Laing, Cooper, and M. Rufer, A. Wolf-Schuler, T. Wollf, I. D. Yalom, J. Bradshaw, V. Kast, A. Lowen, E. Reich, P. Lauster, P. Schellenbaum, J. Murphy, S. Steinbrecher, E. Kübler-Ross, R. A. Moody, K. Ring, I. D. Suttie, E. Jacobson, S. Forward, H. Gastager, C. M. Steiner, W. G. Niederland, R. Funk, N. Schwartz-Salant, A. Janov, A. & M. Mitscherlich, H. König etc.
26.09.2012 - Interpretation of dali48
According to Michel Foucault, there was a shift in the perception of ... - whereby it came to seen as less about delusion, i.e. disturbed judgement about the ... - than about a disorder of regular, normal behaviour or ... - Foucault argued that, prior to this, doctors could often ... - travel, rest, walking, retirement and generally engaging with nature!
In the 1920s extreme hostility to psychiatrists and psychiatry was ... - by the French playwright and theater director Antonin Artaud, - in particular, in his book on van Gogh.
The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm is also said to have articulated, in the 1950s, the secular humanistic concern of the coming anti-psychiatry. - In The Sane Society (1955), Fromm wrote "An unhealthy society - is one which creates mutual hostility and ...
"Yet many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole - may be lacking in sanity!"
Coming to the fore in the 1960s, "anti-psychiatry" (a term first used by David Cooper in 1967) defined a movement that vocally challenged the fundamental claims and... - of mainstream psychiatry!
Cooper was a South African psychiatrist working in Britain. A trained Marxist revolutionary, he argued that the political context of psychiatry and its ... - had to be highlighted and radically challenged!
The psychiatrists R. D. Laing (from Scotland), Theodore Lidz (from America), Silvano Arieti (from Italy) and others, argued that "schizophrenia" and psychosis were... - and resulted from injuries - to the inner self-inflicted by psychologically invasive ...
Laing, through the Philadelphia Association founded with Cooper in ... - set up over 20 therapeutic communities including Kingsley Hall.
The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became a bestseller, resonating with public concern about involuntary ... - lobotomy and electroshock procedures used to control ...
The Nuremberg Trials convicted a number of ... - who held key positions in Nazi regimes!
Observation of the abuses of psychiatry in the Soviet Union in the so-called Psikhushka ... - also led to questioning the validity of the practice of psychiatry in the West!
The gay rights movement continued to challenge the classification of homosexuality as a mental ... - and in 1974, in a climate of controversy and ... - the American Psychiatric Association membership ...
R.D. Laing notoriously emphasized family ... - as a mechanism whereby individuals become victimized by those around ... - and spoke about a dysfunctional society!
One remarkable example of psychiatric diagnosis being used to reinforce cultural bias and oppress dissidence - is the diagnosis of drapetomania. In the USA prior to the American Civil War (see 1861 - 1865 etc. - d.48), physicians such as Samuel A. Cartwright diagnosed some ... - with drapetomania, a mental illness in which the slave possessed an irrational desire for ... - and a tendency to try to escape ...
In 1972, psychologist David Rosenhan published the Rosenhan experiment, a study questioning the validity of psychiatric ... - The study arranged for eight individuals with no history of psychopathology to attempt admission into psychiatric hospitals. The individuals included a graduate student, psychologists, an artist, a housewife, and two physicians, including one psychiatrist. All eight individuals were admitted with a diagnosis of ... - or bipolar disorder.
For example, several studies have shown that African Americans are more often diagnosed with ... - than Caucasians, - and women more than men!
According to Franco Basaglia and his followers, whose approach pointed out the role of psychiatric institutions in the control and medicalization of deviant behaviors and social ... - psychiatry is used as the provider of scientific support for ...
Critics of psychiatry commonly express a concern that the path of diagnosis and treatment in contemporary ... - is primarily or overwhelmingly shaped by profit prerogatives ...
Under the Nazi regime in the 1940s, the 'duty to care' was violated on an enormous ... - In Germany alone 300,000 individuals that had been deemed mentally ... - work-shy or feeble-minded were ... - An additional 100,000 were ... - These practices continued in territories occupied by the Nazis further afield (mainly in eastern Europe), affecting thousands more ...
He stated that psychiatric ... - such as people usually associated with practices in the former USSR, was connected not with the misuse of psychiatric ... - but with the political power built-in to the social role of the psychiatrist in democratic and totalitarian ...
Werner Best, Reinhard Heydrich’s deputy, stated that the task of the ... - was "to root out all symptoms of ... - and germs of destruction that threatened the political ... - of the nation!"
"In addition to Jews, most of the germs were weak, unpopular and marginalized ... - such as gypsies, homosexuals, beggars, 'antisocials', 'work-shy', and 'habitual criminals!'"
Thus suicide, unconventional religious beliefs, racial bigotry, unhappiness, anxiety, shyness, sexual promiscuity, shoplifting, gambling, overeating, smoking, and illegal drug ... - are all considered symptoms or illnesses that need to be ...
According to Szasz, "the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and ... - just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of ... - and religion" ... (Wikipedia)
- Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
- Disability rights movement
- Anti-psychiatry movement
- Anti-psychiatry
People of the anti-psychiatry movement
Anti-psychiatry publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
- Madness and Civilization
Anti-psychiatry organisations
Golden Snow "Very touchy and interesting post dali48 ... I have spoken to many young and old who have had treatment . I will tell you right now it is something to be desired the people who are supposed to look after them ... some told of being doped and raped , others beaten by orderlies and nurses . I pray to God I never have to go for any of their help ... I removed my x-husband because of the brutality , even though I received many beatings from him , I never wanted anyone to be exposed to this ..."
Golden Snow
"Having known people who have gone through treatment dali48 , I can only pray I never end up needing help ... many have spoken of beatings and even rape ... needs to be shaken up a bit ..."
