To this, I would point out the rather amusing reconstruction that is taking place in the international medical definitions of psychiatric conditions: they are Erasing Psychopathy, Narcissism, etc. personality disorders from the book of diagnostics. Isn't that convenient?
They are leaving Bipolar in, which gives a nostalgic dash of the early days of hysterectomies / hysteria – so we are entering a world where the Bipolar label is allowed to exist and be doled out, but there is no such thing as a psychopathic leader.
Yes. I believe that the removal of psychopathy from the DSM and the inclusion of "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" is the codification of totalitarianism in science as a method of authoritarian control.
Glad that someone else was alerted by that as well.
That's akin to erasing the definition of high-end bribery and fraud from legal books and then not being able to be convicted. Happily, they don't have to go to the trouble since the convictions never happen.
I was unaware of these changes in the DSM. Do you plan on writing about it? Are you aware of anyone who’s done a good job writing about it already? This seems very important. I’ve been saying for a while now that a major endgame is pathologization of dissent. And the flip side is of course de-pathologization of the dark triad traits that are found in abundance amongst the Kunlangeta.
That's exactly how it strikes me. They've been toying with these efforts for a couple decades now. Back in circa 2006 when Monsan. was trying to push through GM ingredients in human food supply, along with suing any company who wrote on their label 'GM free', there was a conveniently timed proposal to add a new mental illness to the DSM: people who are picky about the purity of what enters their body.
We've seen similar efforts in the last couple years with trying to define some degree of mental instability for people who refuse to inject poison.
I hadn't considered writing a post about it, nor am I aware of someone who has written from this perspective. You're right that it would be a meaningful discussion to have somewhere. Maybe you or Mathew would be interested in giving it a try?
Again psychiatry is not actually a science, and clearly not a science from what you just described.
I have been reading another book by Szasz this month, “The Myth of Psychotherapy”. Whether intended or not Thomas makes the case for religion over psychiatry.
At this point, Religion seems closer to a science than psychology. Religion at least has axioms that can not be changed, unlike psychology apparently.
I would rather we not categorize Sciences beyond the basics (at most), but rather talk about it as a method. As a method, we can employ science to a lot of "fields" and problems. I'm sure that psychiatry, defined in some way, has aspects to which science can be applied and some to which it cannot [economically/easily/by definition].
At the moment I’m just deep into studying and understanding Szasz and his analysis of the development of psychiatry by Freud, Jung and others. Szasz’s conclusion chapter points out that modern psychiatry had increased the number of psychiatric disorders not decreased them.
I know this train left the station in the last century but, like climate science and the food pyramid it is still not a settled science and is very likely wrong.
I will continue to study this and how we can go back to religion and real food to heal souls rather than psychology and drugs to modify behavior.
Yes, psychiatry and psychology are not falsifiable so people call it a pseudoscience, but that's not correct as it uses the scientific method of observation, reasoned analysis, and publication to peers, and it is self-correcting. Also, people too often require proof when the mass of evidence is adequate for strong belief .
Have the Kinsey reports been corrected by the profession? On a side note, why are atheists who are scientific professors fired when they come to conclusion Darwinism can't be supported? Self correction on climate change? Self correction on deathvax ( I admit good scientists are doing their damnest)?
You always need to know who paid for or financed the gathering of the "data". It seems its nearly always people with a financial or some other vested interest they are pushing. Thus the very apt Whore analogy by John Raymond.
“The result is that modern psychiatry and psychotherapy claim to be scientific religion or religious science, combining in a powerful alliance the forces of both religion and science. When that power is then allied with the modern state, the result is a fresh political force—a force at once arrogant and arbitrary, despotic and destructive.”
— The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression by Thomas Szasz
I recall reading that the diagnosis of “Histrionic” disorder was often given to women who had emotional difficulties back in the 1800s. At some point it was discovered that a high number of those women had been sexually abused by family members and more likely was the reason for their emotional problems. Even though there was an abundance of evidence this was true, Freud refused to give it any credence (bc the powers that be SAID NO). So it was a political issue, not about the truth or ethical medicine especially when it came to women at that time in history.
Being non-religious I am toying with the idea of metaphysical Evil actually being real, here now, and consciously distorting people's thoughts (as in mind control), which is to say that mass formation may be an aspect of, or a misdirection away from The Great Deceiver. Has religion been right all along? Malachi Martin, an Exorcist, has stated that 50% of psychiatric cases are demonic possession, with obsessive-compulsive disorder being a lesser form of That. An other exorcist said only 5%.
This reconsideration of one's metaphysical perspective clarifies the intent of the otherwise unbelievable false narratives. Are we being attacked by an intelligent non-human entity outside our accustomed reality? Just considering this possibility will cause distress - much like when a Narrative believer hears facts.
Mathews comments about “science as a method” could equally be applied to “religion as a method”. Equally as corruptible as science. At least religion, Christianity at least, recognizes it vulnerability to corrupted teaching, to lies. A fair bit of religious writing is dedicated to recognizing and revoting false gods.
Would that we listened more closely. We can and should always pray. Ecclesiasticus 37:14+
You should look up Jerry Marzinsky. I know he was on the Delingpole podcast and probably others. He was a psychologist in prisons and became convinced over time that many inmates were being tormented by evil spirits. Bosses told him to not listen to the crazy inmates but he did anyway. Incredibly thought provoking stuff.
Found him. I’ve read several books by Dalrymple who was also an prison psychologist. There are several visa with Marzinsky on youtube, and he even has a BOOK!
"Psychiatry maintains the voices schizophrenics hear are meaningless auditory hallucinations caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Clinical investigation into the matter reveals this to be a false claim. Dr. Wilson Van Dusen, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Presence of Spirits in Madness" began holding coherent conversations with the voices of his schizophrenic patients decades ago. He discovered they precisely matched what Christian Mystic Emanuel Swedenborg described as evil spirits. Following up with scores of investigative interviews with his schizophrenic patients, Jerry Marzinsky, a psychiatric evaluator, verified Van Dusen's astonishing conclusion: the voices are real. They are conscious, parasitic entities."
Interestingly, I happened to watch Mel Gibson's "signs" two days ago, which asks the question, "What if there are no coincidences?"
And then last night came across, "Alien Parasites" on Amazon, which talks of what the Gnostics call Archons as alien parasites, defined as the delusions of a person with a strong belief in spite of evidence to the contrary. This definition could apply to the authorities pushing the covid-narrative, but not the everyday believers in that narrative as they are unaware of the data.
One should not look into this very dangerous rabbit-hole unless one's personality is extremely well integrated. One has to look at such things with a belief that is not entirely serious, no matter how true you believe it to be. This is because when a person has a belief, that belief may actually have the person and that will distort associations, via false equivalence and confirmation bias, so you journey away from reality. I've noted that the majority of people are significantly distorted by false equivalencies, which might be considered alien or specious thoughts, programmed by the media or bad science.
The key is to differentiate between thinking and the Knowledge that comes when you are not thinking, but are entirely silent and open to personal revelation. Knowledge, by the way, never manifests as voices in your head, regardless of content.
In seeking an answer to “what is currently wrong with medicine and psychiatry?” I note that humans have been dealing with “healing the mind” for a very long time, over 50k years. It is not reasonable that only since Freud (1890) we should suddenly need and invent “psychiatry”.
“Furthermore, medical psychiatry is not merely indifferent to religion, it is implacably hostile to it. Herein lies one of the supreme ironies of modern psychotherapy: it is not merely a religion that pretends to be a science, it is actually a fake religion that seeks to destroy true religion.”
— The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression by Thomas Szasz
Good point. Religion was concerned with “healing the soul” documented as far back as Socrates and Aristotle. The entire third chapter of the book by Szasz discusses this. It is an excellent place to start.
Confession, Repentance, and Absolution. Only poorly reflected an complexly unmoored in psychotherapy.
Religion and Psychotherapy are also social-control mechanisms that act on the subconscious, thereby complementing external laws which act on the conscious mind. I'd not include spirituality or transpersonal psychology as social control, quite the opposite, as they are designed for individuation.
Yes. Szasz was careful to accuse psychotherapy of being a false religion and not psychiatry.
I am taring psychology in general with the same pseudo science brush.
On the flip side; recently Chris Palmer has published a new book, “Brain Energy”, that harkens back to the late days of Freud where he suggests that one day all mental illnes may be related to diet and brain chemistry.
So do we heal the brain (Freud materialist focus) or heal the soul, more of a spiritual function. Not nearly as narrow as Freud. And when you think about it peoples minds are much larger than the space between their ears. We live in a vast space of symbols and maths that is potentially infinite. We can navigate skies and oceans, and see the world through a 2200 year old dead roman senator, Cicero.
So yes. A science that denies the spiritual aspect of being human us false.
John, is the *real* Catholic Church that one in Rome that conceived and had built the, serpent themed, Pope's Audience Hall back in the late 60's? The design is a snakes head turned outside in, complete with stained glass eyes and a pair of fangs that the Pope's throne sits between. Catholics NEVER want to face what this building design actually is or what it clearly represents. Perfect for a Woke, Communist, WEF scheming Pope.
removing diagnostic definitions applied to medicine:
Abstract
Although there is considerable evidence that a subset of infants has an increased risk of sudden death after receiving vaccines, health authorities eliminated "prophylactic vaccination" as an official cause of death, so medical examiners are compelled to misclassify and conceal vaccine-related fatalities under alternate cause-of-death classifications.
Bird, you are wrong. DSM 5 TR has not erased psychopathy or narcissism, the personality disorders remain unchanged and the cluster B ones are: antisocial PD ( synonym for psychopathy), borderline, histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder. Manic depression or bipolar is a well recognised condition for thousands of years and causes untold misery!
As are other conditions that are slated to be removed. Psychopathy for instance yields distinct brain scan patterns with differences in brain structures and regional volumes.
I re-signed as a paid subscriber. I didn’t have time to read your work. But “Thank You” for sending it anyway. I realize now how precious you are just by taking some time in my day to read what you say. I won’t comment much Mathew Crawford but be assured I am so grateful you are here on this earth. I realize we cannot multiply a person though I wish we could multiply you. Nevertheless as dividers seek to divide us down to our inner core, I take solace that you are fighting the fight
for those rational principles which is what makes us eventually….if not already…fully human.
Thank you for a nice testimonial, and your support. I do work to make this more of an educational newsletter, with a focus on epistemological methods and other critical thinking tools.
Drawn in by the "Click-baity" headline! I get the sense someone focus-grouped Harry's image and discovered he was too "beta-male." So in an effort to rehabilitate his image, his publicists interviewed their client and decided to have him admit to killing people. What they failed to realize is that killing people is not an actual aspirational trait of a self-actualized human male. The end result is that he comes off as a murderous "beta male."
Click-baity? I can see why it might be in some circumstances, but means exactly what it means here.
Most all the males among the Royals have come off as betas for generations. I don't think that's the problem. I think we should view this within the context of the WEF/Effective Altruism/Plandemonium imagery of the past few years. Millions of dollar and numerous careers are being spent on this charade. Why?
The oligarch/elites believe that the Big Tech/A.I. nudgers have figured out how to keep the masses shifting around in support...looking for daddy...like an everlasting professional wrestling event. This allows for both revolution and rival control on a totalitarian level.
Not true click bait as when the headline promises more than the article. Only in the sense that the headline was irresistible. You know this because you wrote it, and I suspect you knew it was a good one.
Yeah, but what has the Taliban ever done outside of Afghanistan? Are you thinking of all the terror attacks committed by intelligence agencies using innocent patsies and actors?
I watched with horror as a young child how war destroyed my father , we all need to shut this dumb down , he is touched , damaged & Harry needs to be pushed off the ice & we all just walk away .
I love reading your work Mathew, and I’m grateful for the additional angles you bring to the story bc when I see the word or picture ‘Harry’ (or Meghan) I find myself immediately moving on to something else less irritating or in this case disturbing. It would seem that Harry has eliminated any chance of going back to where he came from, and unless msm no longer have use for another distraction he will continue this unfortunate trail of both trite and stomach churning personal exposure of which I personally feel is wrapped in a disturbing ‘reality tv’ that US media find useful.
It's not clear to me if all this is the Royal Family "moving on" in various ways or possibly going corporate with the recognition that Modern Royalty mostly means being among the international "Sovereign Oligarch" class.
I tend to agree…I’ve definitely had that thought (Harry and Meghan pawns amongst the oligarch) more than once …but my friends think I’m too conspiratorial … maybe, maybe not….nevertheless the comments, connections and timing etc often feel a little too convenient and the obvious advantage of tentacles far and wide are no doubt invaluable. ‘The Firm’ comes to mind. The over the top saturation of this story is a clue, I don’t find Harry convincing, he speaks with a sense of confusion, boyish insecurity and I imagine a sense of regret for the relatively carefree life of being the most popular royal …. Once upon a time.
The history and the story of the DSM itself is quite shocking. This lecture "Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed - Dr James Davies, PhD" is well worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nd40Uy6tbQ
Apparently, it's not so much the CDC but the DoD that's been pulling the strings. The vaccine was classified as a "countermeasure prototype" under a EUA, thereby avoiding safety testing, liability, oversight, informed consent requirements, and manufacturing controls.
What Harry doesn't realise is that the divorce is the next act. Markle is trash, but she's no dummy. Harry has already burned his bridges back in Britain (NO ONE crosses Camilla and lives!) so there's no way back for him. I predict a mysterious California beach death in, say, early 2025. Perhaps earlier.
It does reek of desperation doesn't it? I actually feel somewhat sorry for them. I must admit though that I will be happy when I no longer have to devote my dwindling brain power to these nitwits.
To this, I would point out the rather amusing reconstruction that is taking place in the international medical definitions of psychiatric conditions: they are Erasing Psychopathy, Narcissism, etc. personality disorders from the book of diagnostics. Isn't that convenient?
They are leaving Bipolar in, which gives a nostalgic dash of the early days of hysterectomies / hysteria – so we are entering a world where the Bipolar label is allowed to exist and be doled out, but there is no such thing as a psychopathic leader.
Yes. I believe that the removal of psychopathy from the DSM and the inclusion of "Oppositional Defiance Disorder" is the codification of totalitarianism in science as a method of authoritarian control.
Glad that someone else was alerted by that as well.
That's akin to erasing the definition of high-end bribery and fraud from legal books and then not being able to be convicted. Happily, they don't have to go to the trouble since the convictions never happen.
I was unaware of these changes in the DSM. Do you plan on writing about it? Are you aware of anyone who’s done a good job writing about it already? This seems very important. I’ve been saying for a while now that a major endgame is pathologization of dissent. And the flip side is of course de-pathologization of the dark triad traits that are found in abundance amongst the Kunlangeta.
That's exactly how it strikes me. They've been toying with these efforts for a couple decades now. Back in circa 2006 when Monsan. was trying to push through GM ingredients in human food supply, along with suing any company who wrote on their label 'GM free', there was a conveniently timed proposal to add a new mental illness to the DSM: people who are picky about the purity of what enters their body.
We've seen similar efforts in the last couple years with trying to define some degree of mental instability for people who refuse to inject poison.
I hadn't considered writing a post about it, nor am I aware of someone who has written from this perspective. You're right that it would be a meaningful discussion to have somewhere. Maybe you or Mathew would be interested in giving it a try?
Opp def disorder? What, are they condemn every Irish person? I mean that is who we are
Mathew, this is factually incorrect. See my comment below. Psychopathy remains and ODD has been in for ages
They are removing it and others in the next edition. Look into it if you are interested. This info is straight from the medical field.
Again psychiatry is not actually a science, and clearly not a science from what you just described.
I have been reading another book by Szasz this month, “The Myth of Psychotherapy”. Whether intended or not Thomas makes the case for religion over psychiatry.
At this point, Religion seems closer to a science than psychology. Religion at least has axioms that can not be changed, unlike psychology apparently.
I meant to comment here.
I would rather we not categorize Sciences beyond the basics (at most), but rather talk about it as a method. As a method, we can employ science to a lot of "fields" and problems. I'm sure that psychiatry, defined in some way, has aspects to which science can be applied and some to which it cannot [economically/easily/by definition].
At the moment I’m just deep into studying and understanding Szasz and his analysis of the development of psychiatry by Freud, Jung and others. Szasz’s conclusion chapter points out that modern psychiatry had increased the number of psychiatric disorders not decreased them.
I know this train left the station in the last century but, like climate science and the food pyramid it is still not a settled science and is very likely wrong.
I will continue to study this and how we can go back to religion and real food to heal souls rather than psychology and drugs to modify behavior.
Yes, psychiatry and psychology are not falsifiable so people call it a pseudoscience, but that's not correct as it uses the scientific method of observation, reasoned analysis, and publication to peers, and it is self-correcting. Also, people too often require proof when the mass of evidence is adequate for strong belief .
Have the Kinsey reports been corrected by the profession? On a side note, why are atheists who are scientific professors fired when they come to conclusion Darwinism can't be supported? Self correction on climate change? Self correction on deathvax ( I admit good scientists are doing their damnest)?
Science has become politicized, and data has become irrelevant.
I see 2 Sciences. A true one, of honest irascible truth loving souls.
A a whore
You always need to know who paid for or financed the gathering of the "data". It seems its nearly always people with a financial or some other vested interest they are pushing. Thus the very apt Whore analogy by John Raymond.
I just can’t quite get there. Another Szasz quote
“The result is that modern psychiatry and psychotherapy claim to be scientific religion or religious science, combining in a powerful alliance the forces of both religion and science. When that power is then allied with the modern state, the result is a fresh political force—a force at once arrogant and arbitrary, despotic and destructive.”
— The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression by Thomas Szasz
https://a.co/9irNWar
I recall reading that the diagnosis of “Histrionic” disorder was often given to women who had emotional difficulties back in the 1800s. At some point it was discovered that a high number of those women had been sexually abused by family members and more likely was the reason for their emotional problems. Even though there was an abundance of evidence this was true, Freud refused to give it any credence (bc the powers that be SAID NO). So it was a political issue, not about the truth or ethical medicine especially when it came to women at that time in history.
Being non-religious I am toying with the idea of metaphysical Evil actually being real, here now, and consciously distorting people's thoughts (as in mind control), which is to say that mass formation may be an aspect of, or a misdirection away from The Great Deceiver. Has religion been right all along? Malachi Martin, an Exorcist, has stated that 50% of psychiatric cases are demonic possession, with obsessive-compulsive disorder being a lesser form of That. An other exorcist said only 5%.
This reconsideration of one's metaphysical perspective clarifies the intent of the otherwise unbelievable false narratives. Are we being attacked by an intelligent non-human entity outside our accustomed reality? Just considering this possibility will cause distress - much like when a Narrative believer hears facts.
Mathews comments about “science as a method” could equally be applied to “religion as a method”. Equally as corruptible as science. At least religion, Christianity at least, recognizes it vulnerability to corrupted teaching, to lies. A fair bit of religious writing is dedicated to recognizing and revoting false gods.
Would that we listened more closely. We can and should always pray. Ecclesiasticus 37:14+
You should look up Jerry Marzinsky. I know he was on the Delingpole podcast and probably others. He was a psychologist in prisons and became convinced over time that many inmates were being tormented by evil spirits. Bosses told him to not listen to the crazy inmates but he did anyway. Incredibly thought provoking stuff.
Found him. I’ve read several books by Dalrymple who was also an prison psychologist. There are several visa with Marzinsky on youtube, and he even has a BOOK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wT6eWavqw
https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Journey-Into-Psychotic-Mind/dp/1716919541
"Psychiatry maintains the voices schizophrenics hear are meaningless auditory hallucinations caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Clinical investigation into the matter reveals this to be a false claim. Dr. Wilson Van Dusen, a clinical psychologist and author of "The Presence of Spirits in Madness" began holding coherent conversations with the voices of his schizophrenic patients decades ago. He discovered they precisely matched what Christian Mystic Emanuel Swedenborg described as evil spirits. Following up with scores of investigative interviews with his schizophrenic patients, Jerry Marzinsky, a psychiatric evaluator, verified Van Dusen's astonishing conclusion: the voices are real. They are conscious, parasitic entities."
Interestingly, I happened to watch Mel Gibson's "signs" two days ago, which asks the question, "What if there are no coincidences?"
And then last night came across, "Alien Parasites" on Amazon, which talks of what the Gnostics call Archons as alien parasites, defined as the delusions of a person with a strong belief in spite of evidence to the contrary. This definition could apply to the authorities pushing the covid-narrative, but not the everyday believers in that narrative as they are unaware of the data.
https://www.amazon.com/ALIEN-PARASITES-GNOSTIC-TRUTHS-INVASION/dp/1099142768
One should not look into this very dangerous rabbit-hole unless one's personality is extremely well integrated. One has to look at such things with a belief that is not entirely serious, no matter how true you believe it to be. This is because when a person has a belief, that belief may actually have the person and that will distort associations, via false equivalence and confirmation bias, so you journey away from reality. I've noted that the majority of people are significantly distorted by false equivalencies, which might be considered alien or specious thoughts, programmed by the media or bad science.
The key is to differentiate between thinking and the Knowledge that comes when you are not thinking, but are entirely silent and open to personal revelation. Knowledge, by the way, never manifests as voices in your head, regardless of content.
I have an opinion, 😁, of course.
In seeking an answer to “what is currently wrong with medicine and psychiatry?” I note that humans have been dealing with “healing the mind” for a very long time, over 50k years. It is not reasonable that only since Freud (1890) we should suddenly need and invent “psychiatry”.
“Furthermore, medical psychiatry is not merely indifferent to religion, it is implacably hostile to it. Herein lies one of the supreme ironies of modern psychotherapy: it is not merely a religion that pretends to be a science, it is actually a fake religion that seeks to destroy true religion.”
— The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression by Thomas Szasz
https://a.co/2XGoRZd
Before psychiatry there was religion.
Indeed, has it not been said that religion is the opium of the people? But is not Psychiatry also the opium of the people, but with actual opiates?
Good point. Religion was concerned with “healing the soul” documented as far back as Socrates and Aristotle. The entire third chapter of the book by Szasz discusses this. It is an excellent place to start.
Confession, Repentance, and Absolution. Only poorly reflected an complexly unmoored in psychotherapy.
Religion and Psychotherapy are also social-control mechanisms that act on the subconscious, thereby complementing external laws which act on the conscious mind. I'd not include spirituality or transpersonal psychology as social control, quite the opposite, as they are designed for individuation.
You are conflating psychiatry with psychotherapy. They are quite different
Yes. Szasz was careful to accuse psychotherapy of being a false religion and not psychiatry.
I am taring psychology in general with the same pseudo science brush.
On the flip side; recently Chris Palmer has published a new book, “Brain Energy”, that harkens back to the late days of Freud where he suggests that one day all mental illnes may be related to diet and brain chemistry.
So do we heal the brain (Freud materialist focus) or heal the soul, more of a spiritual function. Not nearly as narrow as Freud. And when you think about it peoples minds are much larger than the space between their ears. We live in a vast space of symbols and maths that is potentially infinite. We can navigate skies and oceans, and see the world through a 2200 year old dead roman senator, Cicero.
So yes. A science that denies the spiritual aspect of being human us false.
Of course the soul is of prime importance to everything. Many psychiatrists are deeply religious, myself included
Sounds like interesting reading material. I'll have to look into that some rainy day.
indeed complete quackery
I think Catholic Church does define some of its theology as sciences.
This is *reaI* Catholic Church.
John, is the *real* Catholic Church that one in Rome that conceived and had built the, serpent themed, Pope's Audience Hall back in the late 60's? The design is a snakes head turned outside in, complete with stained glass eyes and a pair of fangs that the Pope's throne sits between. Catholics NEVER want to face what this building design actually is or what it clearly represents. Perfect for a Woke, Communist, WEF scheming Pope.
Vatican II Robber Council proposed counter axioms.
Only a few dealt properly with it.
removing diagnostic definitions applied to medicine:
Abstract
Although there is considerable evidence that a subset of infants has an increased risk of sudden death after receiving vaccines, health authorities eliminated "prophylactic vaccination" as an official cause of death, so medical examiners are compelled to misclassify and conceal vaccine-related fatalities under alternate cause-of-death classifications.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750021001268
Good article, thanks for pointing that out. I will mention it in one of the posts I'm working on.
Bird, you are wrong. DSM 5 TR has not erased psychopathy or narcissism, the personality disorders remain unchanged and the cluster B ones are: antisocial PD ( synonym for psychopathy), borderline, histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder. Manic depression or bipolar is a well recognised condition for thousands of years and causes untold misery!
I'm not talking about DSM 5. I'm talking about the future edition.
Everyone here agrees with your perspective on bipolar, there is no need for argument.
Manic depression is undeniably a valid psychiatric illness and has been described for thousands of years
As are other conditions that are slated to be removed. Psychopathy for instance yields distinct brain scan patterns with differences in brain structures and regional volumes.
Dear Mathew,
I re-signed as a paid subscriber. I didn’t have time to read your work. But “Thank You” for sending it anyway. I realize now how precious you are just by taking some time in my day to read what you say. I won’t comment much Mathew Crawford but be assured I am so grateful you are here on this earth. I realize we cannot multiply a person though I wish we could multiply you. Nevertheless as dividers seek to divide us down to our inner core, I take solace that you are fighting the fight
for those rational principles which is what makes us eventually….if not already…fully human.
Thank you for a nice testimonial, and your support. I do work to make this more of an educational newsletter, with a focus on epistemological methods and other critical thinking tools.
♥️
Drawn in by the "Click-baity" headline! I get the sense someone focus-grouped Harry's image and discovered he was too "beta-male." So in an effort to rehabilitate his image, his publicists interviewed their client and decided to have him admit to killing people. What they failed to realize is that killing people is not an actual aspirational trait of a self-actualized human male. The end result is that he comes off as a murderous "beta male."
Click-baity? I can see why it might be in some circumstances, but means exactly what it means here.
Most all the males among the Royals have come off as betas for generations. I don't think that's the problem. I think we should view this within the context of the WEF/Effective Altruism/Plandemonium imagery of the past few years. Millions of dollar and numerous careers are being spent on this charade. Why?
The oligarch/elites believe that the Big Tech/A.I. nudgers have figured out how to keep the masses shifting around in support...looking for daddy...like an everlasting professional wrestling event. This allows for both revolution and rival control on a totalitarian level.
They're wrong and it's going to get very ugly.
Not true click bait as when the headline promises more than the article. Only in the sense that the headline was irresistible. You know this because you wrote it, and I suspect you knew it was a good one.
Harry just put a target on himself and the Royal Family for his comment about 25 kills.
He reduced human beings to chess pieces on a board. The Taliban won't forget.
Yeah, but what has the Taliban ever done outside of Afghanistan? Are you thinking of all the terror attacks committed by intelligence agencies using innocent patsies and actors?
I don't trust American or British military in even taking basic steps to limit civilian deaths.
Let’s hope they don’t.
Matthew, you just taught me something very valuable. Not about the cards...about
Psycopaths. Thank you.
I watched with horror as a young child how war destroyed my father , we all need to shut this dumb down , he is touched , damaged & Harry needs to be pushed off the ice & we all just walk away .
I laughed out loud at this one - "Prince Harry's presumed autobiographical book of stuff that somebody typed" 😂
:)
Answer to your question - Yes!
I love reading your work Mathew, and I’m grateful for the additional angles you bring to the story bc when I see the word or picture ‘Harry’ (or Meghan) I find myself immediately moving on to something else less irritating or in this case disturbing. It would seem that Harry has eliminated any chance of going back to where he came from, and unless msm no longer have use for another distraction he will continue this unfortunate trail of both trite and stomach churning personal exposure of which I personally feel is wrapped in a disturbing ‘reality tv’ that US media find useful.
It's not clear to me if all this is the Royal Family "moving on" in various ways or possibly going corporate with the recognition that Modern Royalty mostly means being among the international "Sovereign Oligarch" class.
I tend to agree…I’ve definitely had that thought (Harry and Meghan pawns amongst the oligarch) more than once …but my friends think I’m too conspiratorial … maybe, maybe not….nevertheless the comments, connections and timing etc often feel a little too convenient and the obvious advantage of tentacles far and wide are no doubt invaluable. ‘The Firm’ comes to mind. The over the top saturation of this story is a clue, I don’t find Harry convincing, he speaks with a sense of confusion, boyish insecurity and I imagine a sense of regret for the relatively carefree life of being the most popular royal …. Once upon a time.
We can't see the video in UK from Lasso Group. Blocked on copyright grounds it says!
It's a documentary video of the Aristocrats joke, if you can look it up and find it.
Yes, great observations Corollaries:
1) Psychopaths get fooled more often by other psychopaths because their behavior looks normal.
2) Some people with psychopathic tendencies predicted our current scene early on.
Interesting. Do (1) and (2) not conflict?
I really wish that Harry and Meghan would move to Mongolia and live happily ever after, and never be heard from again. They just need to go away.
The history and the story of the DSM itself is quite shocking. This lecture "Psychiatry & Big Pharma: Exposed - Dr James Davies, PhD" is well worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nd40Uy6tbQ
The first and the last card... Thank you for this example, I will be using it next time I teach discrete math (logic).
This may be relevant to the DoD DMED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERvURcpg3JE&t=1032s
Apparently, it's not so much the CDC but the DoD that's been pulling the strings. The vaccine was classified as a "countermeasure prototype" under a EUA, thereby avoiding safety testing, liability, oversight, informed consent requirements, and manufacturing controls.
You don't have to tell me. I've been screaming, "This is all the DoD," since 2020.
Oh God, too many $10 words.
What Harry doesn't realise is that the divorce is the next act. Markle is trash, but she's no dummy. Harry has already burned his bridges back in Britain (NO ONE crosses Camilla and lives!) so there's no way back for him. I predict a mysterious California beach death in, say, early 2025. Perhaps earlier.
It does reek of desperation doesn't it? I actually feel somewhat sorry for them. I must admit though that I will be happy when I no longer have to devote my dwindling brain power to these nitwits.
Markle is not a nitwit. She is a Grade A Psychopath/Narcissist.
They had a $45 million dollar wedding and they are still complaining.
The Venn diagram shows that the union of the set of narcissists with the set of psychopaths is the set of nitwits 🤪
My prediction? They divorce, of course. She does a teary interview tour. And then fades into obscurity. Or she runs for politics. Harry is quietly
...absorbed back into the Royal Family.
Car crash.
media loves meghan and harry ... this is past times ... we are in 21st century ...
Do the media love them, or are they just the PR industry being paid to promote them?
"What is love?"
"Fatal Attraction"
...coming home and finding a bunny boiling on the stove.
...it's to take everyone's mind off the covid death shots and "died suddenly."
harry is stupid
Underlings always get eliminated by tyrants once they have outlived their usefulness.
What’s with the mushrooms??