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PsychSearch
The Shrinks are Shrinking
Colin Taufer
“Psychiatry is in decline and is becoming obsolete.”
This statement does not come from an anti-psychiatry group or a former patient with an axe to grind or a dubious website. This quote comes from an article published by The British Journal of Medical Practitioners, a professional, peer-reviewed online medical journal. The title of the article says it all Psychiatry in Decline. How does the author, a noted English psychiatrist, make his point? Plentifully, honestly and accurately:
● Psychotropic drugs are perceived as a form of control by psychiatrists towards their patients.
● Psychiatrists are denigrated for being in the grip of Big Pharma and perceived as drug pushers.
● Shock therapy is considered barbaric.
● Psychiatry is a victim of its own psychobabble and increasingly mind-numbing research.
● Outcome studies are quoted as favorable, when the very principle of their foundations is very shaky.
● Abuse of psychiatric practice does occur. (As readers of PsychSearch are well aware.)
● Political regimes throughout the world have used and still use powerful psych drugs to subdue and control individuals who challenge the authority of the State.
● Psychiatry has been used by some totalitarian regimes to enforce political control: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and apartheid in South Africa.
Not a favorable outlook. But not only is psychiatry becoming obsolete, the number of psychiatrists is also shrinking.
According to one leading journal of healthcare policy, the population of US practicing psychiatrists declined between 2003 – 2013. Interestingly, during the same period the number of primary care physicians grew. In 2012, U.S. News & World Report discussed the trend of the declining number of US medical students choosing psychiatry as a specialty. This downturn is on top of a psychiatric shortage, the same article claims.
In July, when asked about the shortage of psychiatrists, the president of the World Psychiatric Association, Dinesh Bhugra, lamented the dour future of psychiatry. He told PsychSearch that a dwindling number of students were interested in pursuing psychiatry and they needed to improve recruitment and training of new students.
Psychiatry is a dying profession. Its theories are outmoded and inaccurate, its practices inhumane and ineffective, its numbers declining.
The shrinks are shrinking.
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michael hessler retweeted
CENTCOM's Bradley Cooper is kibitzing with Israel lobbyists and laying the groundwork for a major escalation with Iran with minimal scrutiny from the media and Congress
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Dan was “there”, where it counted.
You’re a stolen valor war tourist.
Arlington? Damn. Take fire?
You could have served, Levin.
You opted out.
Dan didn’t.
You might want to keep your yap shut when it comes to talking about the cost of war.
Because you have no idea.
michael hessler retweeted
23 flag-draped coffins and Mark Levin's response is "You're right on this, of course."
Of course. Of course he'd say that. It's never been his coffin.
@marklevinshow has spent his career calling himself "The Great One" from behind a radio mic. He's never been closer to combat than a Fox News green room. Yet he's always first in line to send your sons and daughters to die in the desert.
Let's talk about the "pretty big difference" Byron York and Mark are so proud of.
Tell it to the 23 families who got the knock on the door. Tell it to the mothers who watched a casket come off a plane at Dover.
Tell it to the kids who'll grow up with a folded flag where a father used to be. To Mark, they're a statistic he can use to win an argument on X. To me, they're brothers and sisters.
And the 23 doesn't count the wounded. It doesn't count the guys coming home with missing limbs, scrambled brains and a VA appointment eight months out. It doesn't count the ones we'll lose to suicide years from now because of what they saw over there. Those don't make Byron's tweet either.
Here's what these chickenhawks always forget. Vietnam didn't start at 58,220 either.
It started small. A few advisors. A few hundred dead. A resolution Congress rubber-stamped instead of a declaration of war. Every war the political class sells you starts with a "low" body count. That's how they get you in the door.
Nine months in, nobody in Washington can tell you what victory in Iran looks like.
Nobody can tell you when our troops come home. And not one member of Congress has had the courage to vote on a declaration of war. Article I, Section 8 gives that power to Congress, not to the President and definitely not to a talk radio host.
I've been to war. I've buried friends. I know what these numbers mean when they have names attached.
Mark, if 23 dead Americans is "not that big a deal," then you won't mind putting on a uniform and going first. Recruiters are standing by.
Didn't think so.
Chickenhawks always love a war with a low body count. It's never their body.
michael hessler retweeted
The Israelis are really going to try to rehab Nikki Haley and Mike Pence and run them again in 2028. Bookmark this.
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#QuoteOfTheDay
Lavrov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
"Europe is once again trying to create a respite for the Kyiv regime to restore its military potential. Moscow will not agree to this. Russia will not agree to another ceasefire without understanding what will happen next. The idea of first establishing clear security guarantees is absolutely reasonable."
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Iran gives United States 2 days to accept deal or faced renewed hostilities.
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Israeli soldier Alex Miller, 23, who killed kids in Gaza, committed suicide after sending his girlfriend a message saying, "This is my Iast day. I can't bear it anymore. The bodies are haunting me"
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Life has gotten so good.
They used to have me disabled. They said I was seriously mentally ill, and then they put me on drugs that made it hard to brush my teeth once a day. It was the worst.
I told them to fuck off. I fought it to the death. And I won.
Fuck psychiatry.
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BREAKING: Qatar officially rejects the Israel Hayom report claiming Iran has dropped its demand to control the Strait of Hormuz and collect transit fees, along with claims of 3.7% uranium enrichment, 60% dilution and the release of $8 billion in frozen assets, calling the reports categorically false, per Al Jazeera.
A senior Qatari official told Al Jazeera the circulating details are completely inaccurate. Both sides are still talking with mediators on the core terms of any deal. The official specifically denied the claims on enrichment and frozen assets.
Oil prices crashed on the unverified leak. Brent fell more than 3% to around $94.8 a barrel, extending its steepest weekly drop since 2020. The market was moved by a report that never existed. Iran has not conceded control of Hormuz.
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I’m convinced that the story that the mental health field tells the professionals themselves about iatrogenic harm is profoundly misleading and wrong.
Of course, this is totally unfair to the mental health professionals, not to mention the actual patients they get to interface with the system. But it exists to maintain the power of the institution and their revenue model. Not to sincerely tackle the topic of iatrogenic harm.
That’s what my next video essay will be about: understanding iatrogenic harm for mental health professionals.
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Has MK Ultra even ended? No. How else do you get a quarter of the population to take experimental Mind and mood altering drugs with a horrific safety profile. A thorough deep dive into the program and its impact on you today. New Radically Genuine Episode is now live.
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Or in the case of psychiatry, if you disagree with the psychiatrist prescriber, you're wrong. And the problem with that is psychiatry is incredibly subjective. Therefore psychiatry is historically and currently fraught with human rights abuses and this is all Szaszian in nature. This way of thinking.
