Body: | Psychiatry wants to replace Christianity and the church for guidance and
life's answers!
Psychiatry provides:
1. a source of wrong answers opposed to the Bible
2. promises of false hope and happiness
3. solutions that don't work
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Psychiatry is a vicious enemy
of Christianity and the Bible.
Psychiatry is Anti-Christian
Psychiatry is Atheistic
Psychiatry is Humanistic
Introduction:
Psychiatry has positioned itself to function as a replacement to the
church and Christianity.
Psychiatry is not content to share the "turf" with Christianity, it
seeks to compete with, replace and obsolete the idea of looking to God for
guidance and solutions for life's problems.
Psychology is actually a religion where Psychiatrists, psychologists
and mental health workers are the "priests" imposing their own personal
atheistic and humanistic value system upon unsuspecting individuals.
The psychiatry industry and insurance industry have banded together
to literally yank a minister's or pastor's traditional role of "councilor"
out of their hands. This is a very recent phenomena and is unprecedented in
history! It is driven by territorial expansionism by the psychiatry
industry and simple cash savings from litigation by the insurance industry.
It is wrong.
Society has begun to pick up on this message that going to your
church, a minister, a pastor, a Christian or the Bible is a second best
option for solving personal problems. "Sure", they suggest, "go to your
minister just like you would go to a friend"... "but when you really want
professional advice that will solve your problems... come see a
psychologist or psychiatrist."
The message is loud and clear: counseling from a minister, a pastor,
a Christian is a waste of time. If you want results see a psychologist or
psychiatrist!
Psychology is the "new religion" where social workers are the
priests imposing their own personal atheistic and humanistic value system
upon unsuspecting individuals. Psychiatry has positioned itself to replace
the church and religion for guidance and life's answers!
A practicing psychologist comments: "Naturally, I continue to wonder
what would happen if religion was to take back its role in matters of the
"soul," science was to take back the study of the body and behavior, and
people could accept life as something more profound than a quest for
psychological solutions." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p
283
A. Psychiatry opposes pastoral counseling as part of a turf war:
As incredible as it may sound, Psychiatry frowns upon seeking advice
from a minister or pastor/elder or Christian. Of course, if the pastor has
been certified by the psychiatry industry they are happy. It is all about
control!
This is part of a larger territorial turf war where the psychiatry
industry wants to put ministers out of the "counseling business".
Here is an example of how pastors merely provide comfort while the
psychiatrist fixes the problem. The pastor is banished from the operating
room where the spiritual surgery is performed and placed in the waiting
room outside. What is shocking about this quote, is that it comes from a
very naive conservative Christian: "The pastor provides the Christian
comfort and the psychiatrist provides the needed therapy and neither
conflicts with the other." (Wesley W. Nelson, Baker's Dictionary of
Practical Theology, p. 300) Of course this is as absurd as it is wrong. But
it illustrates just how far the psychiatry industry has gone to convince
even the church that they should leave the counseling to the pros
(psychiatrists)!
"It can be rightly claimed that malingering [faking] is always the
sign of a disease often more severe than a neurotic disorder. . . . It is a
disease which to diagnose requires particularly keen diagnostic acumen. The
diagnosis should never be made but by the psychiatrist." Kurt R. Eissler,
1908-1999, Malingering, p 252)
B. Insurance companies oppose pastoral counseling:
Even insurance companies for churches strongly recommend against
"uncertified and uncredentialed" ministers from engaging in any form of
counseling!
Insurance companies have begun to dissuade church ministers and
pastors from calling what they do, "counseling". Instead call it, "pastoral
insight", "spiritual guidance", "shepherding"... anything but what the
Bible says it is! Counseling!
It is clear that this advice is driven by litigation in part, but
the effect is just another angle of squeezing ministers and pastors out of
their rightful traditional role of counseling.
Here is the advice of the insurance industry: "We recommendation
that unless a minister or other church official or volunteer is actually a
professional counselor (i.e. psychologist, psychotherapist or some other
recognized degree and designation from a self governing and self
disciplining professional association) then they should not call it
"counseling". It's a somewhat loaded term legally in terms of the
expectations of those who receive such services, paid or unpaid. Therefore
we recommend that most churches and ministers refrain from using the term
counseling. A better alternative in bulletins, websites and other oral and
written communication is to refer to such "services" more precisely as
"pastoral insight", "spiritual guidance", "shepherding" or whatever other
term makes sense within the context of your church culture and ministries.
This will avoid unnecessarily heightened standards of legal liability
related to professional counseling that most ministers are not really
qualified to provide." (President of large insurance company that
specializes in church insurance policies)
So what has happened, is the mental health industry has come in and
literally taken over the traditional and central right and function of
ministers and pastors and Christians in general, to council!
Now we believe that the vast majority of pastor counseling can be
accomplished in no more than 2-3 one hour meetings. We do not recommend
ministers advertise or charge for their superior services. The motivation
must be finding and correcting the problem quickly. Usually the solution is
quite simple, but the person rejects the advice. It is important for
councilors to realize that some people enjoy focusing on themselves and
reject your advice because then no further sessions would be necessary.
Most of the problems that arise in counseling are from paid, protracted
weekly sessions that last months.
C. Psychiatry is a religion:
NOTE: Medical doctors do not impose their philosophical, moral values upon
you when they do a knee replacement. Psychiatrists, on the other hand
always bring their philosophical and moral values into their treatment
arena. For example, since most psychiatrists are atheists who reject the
existence of the soul or spirit and believe man is a pile of chemicals,
they treat you with drugs. When they do council you, they view your
religious faith as an impediment to good mental health.
Name of their religion and philosophy is humanism, atheism and
evolutionary Darwinian.
Psychiatry's founding prophet is Freud.
Psychiatry's Bible is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
of Mental Disorders)
Psychiatry's high priests are psychiatrists.
Psychiatry's priests are psychologists.
Psychiatry's altar boys are psychiatric nurses and mental health
workers.
Psychiatry's "Holy Spirit" communicator is the media
Psychiatry's temples are mental institutions.
Psychiatry's "Church Treasury" is your public Tax Dollars
Psychiatry's divine being is the "self".
Psychiatry's view of where we came from: Random chance processes
Psychiatry's purpose of life: None.
Psychiatry's future hope of heaven: None
D. Therapists impose their personal religion views upon you:
"So often, in the Psychology industry, the diagnosis is consistent
with the treatment offered that one can only surmise that the
psychologist's area of interest determines both the label and the
treatment. This was intimated by Frank Pittman, who writes: "psychotherapy
involves applying the value system of the therapist to the dilemmas of the
clients. . . his or her value system is more important to you than
training, credentials, or even professional degrees." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 164)
"False interpreting is the essential ingredient in the manufacture
of synthetic victims; it places the psychologist's beliefs above the
client's problems. For the client, this leads to getting "the therapist's
particular brand of psychotherapy, addressing the problem areas that the
therapist finds significant. The form of treatment, then, is determined by
the therapist's habitual approach and not by the nature of the problem that
the patient brings in." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p
73)
"Others [studies] have demonstrated the ability of therapists to
influence the values of their patients to come in line with their own.
Welkowitz and his colleagues arbitrarily assigned clients to therapists and
subsequently found that the values of the therapists resembled those of
their own patients more than those seen by other therapists, and that the
similarity of values tended to increase over time or length of treatment.'
Similarly, a study by Rosenthal found a positive relationship between
ratings of improvement and the change of clients' moral values towards
those of the psychologists, with respect to sex, aggression and authority.'
Since such moral conversion is possible, it is no wonder that psychologists
with a victim-oriented philosophy can intentionally or inadvertently
manufacture victims." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 202)
"An investigation of this question suggests that psychologists,
regardless of what credentials they may or may not have, are not well
trained, are often as badly off as their clients, apply their own values
and ideas, however inappropriate, don't know or acknowledge their
limitations, and get by either because they are just nice people or because
they know how to play the role of an authority and expert. (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 227)
As Sarason writes: "every psychologist has a picture of what man is
or should be, of what society is or should be, and this picture infiltrates
(indeed, is in part the basis of) his or her theories, along with the
psychologist's way of thinking about theory and practice." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 235)
"Put simply, the Psychology industry considers and treats people as
children who, regardless of age, experience, education or status must be
protected, guided, sheltered, excused and disciplined. I consider the
prospect of this emerging neo-paternalistic society in which the "fathers"
(the "paters") are the psychologists, whose knowledge is superior and whose
power is absolute, to be intolerable." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana
Dineen, 2001, p 268)
"It allows itself to be a willing, cooperative agent of social
policy and control, with its activities conforming to governmental and
corporate principles. In so doing, it diminishes its capacity to step back
and question the always present and unspoken assumptions that underlie the
present form of society; "an undergirding that drastically limits the
universe of alternatives that social policymakers can consider." This
willingness to avoid challenging the views of policymakers has turned the
profession into an industry. Instead of probing human nature and thereby
striving to understand why the social order has come to be the way it is
and how one might build a better one, psychologists have colluded to
maintain the present one in which they have attained power and become part
of the cultural elite. Despite psychologists' apparent willingness to
describe themselves as "social influence purveyors," they fail to see that
in assuming this role, they become pawns in a larger game of creating and
molding dependent, conforming and disciplined people." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 271)
"The psychological way of life has infiltrated our society to such
an extent that it goes unseen, accepted and undetected, affecting our
thoughts and language, emotions, behaviors and beliefs." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 283)
E. Psychiatry promises false happiness:
Only Jesus Christ can provide true lasting happiness.
"All the analysis (therapy) in the world doesn't allow the person to
find out who he is and why he is here on earth, why he has to die, and how
he can make his life a triumph. It is when psychology pretends to do this,
when it offers itself as a full explanation of human unhappiness, that it
becomes a fraud that makes an impasse from which he cannot escape."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 268)
"I am increasingly astonished about how unable the average patient
is now to articulate reasons for their unhappiness, and how readily they
will accept a "medical" diagnosis and solution if given one by a
narrow-minded psychiatrist. This is a cultural pathologic dependence on
medical authority. Granted, there are patients who do fight this kind of
definition and continue to search for better explanations for themselves
which are less infantilizing, but in my experience this is not common.
There is a frightening choking off of the possibility for dissent and
creative questioning here, a silencing of very basic questions such as
"what is this pain?" or "what is my purpose?" Modern psychiatry has
unconscionably participated in this pathology for its own gain and power.
It is a moral, not scientific issue at stake here, and in my view this is
why many astute Americans rightfully distrust this new psychiatry and its
Utopian claims about happiness through medical progress." (Against Biologic
Psychiatry, Dr. David Kaiser, Psychologist, Psychiatric Times, December,
Dec. 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 12)
"In its broadest forms, as trauma counseling, stress debriefing,
educational guidance, parent education, divorce mediation, violence
prevention, anger management, twelve-step programs, sensitivity training,
and so on, psychotherapy has become a building block of society. It is
accepted without question, practiced without hesitation and funded without
reservation. As such, "there seems little question that psychotherapy is
one of the most significant cultural artifacts of our time, reflecting and
shaping the central themes of the last 150 years." (Manufacturing Victims,
Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 280)
F. Psychiatry is redefining moral standards:
Standards of morality, right and wrong, and what is normal and
acceptable behaviour is defined by God alone. Christians are asleep while
the devil has stepped in allowed psychologists and psychiatrists to create
brand new definitions of what is normal and the basic moral code.
So guess what happens when an industry that is atheistic,
evolutionary and humanistic sets out to define morals? Well open your eyes
and look that the mess your local town is in today! Moral relativism and
anarchy!
"The altruistic appearance of the services offered by psychologists
is dangerously misleading. People need to recognize that the Psychology
Industry thrives by promoting its services and expanding its market, and
that psychologists are selling the public a bill of goods, making promises
about happiness, health and safety which they cannot fulfil. Psychologists
are in the business of posing as experts in living, claiming for themselves
the ability to divine right from wrong and cause from effect. The
Psychology industry has persuaded society that the "good life" is possible
through the guidance and assistance of psychologists." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 269)
The result is that behaviour and actions that the Bible defines as
sin and deviant and wrong, are being accepted as normal. Judges are
accepting the advice of psychiatrists and giving light sentences for child
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"One way to unmask the dogma that is biologic psychiatry is to ask
the question what kind of human being is being posited as desirable,
"normal," or not disordered. Judging by the DSM-IV, it would be a person
not depressed or anxious, without perversions or sexual "dysfunction," in
touch with "reality," not alienated from society, adapted to their work,
not prone to excessive feeling states and generally productive in their
life pursuits. This is, of course, the bourgeois ideal of modern culture.
We will all fit in, produce and consume and be happy about it. Anyone who
dissents by choice or nature slips into the realm of the disordered or
pathologic, is then located as such by medical science and is then subject
to social management and control." (Against Biologic Psychiatry, Dr. David
Kaiser, Psychologist, Psychiatric Times, December, Dec. 1996, Vol. XIII,
Issue 12)
"They used these licenses to give themselves the authority to decide
who and what is normal and abnormal, good and bad, healthy and sick."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 273)
"A more humane psychiatry, if it is even possible in today's
cultural climate, must recognize the powerful potential of the uses and
abuses of power if it is not to become a tool of social control and
normalization." (Against Biologic Psychiatry, Dr. David Kaiser,
Psychologist, Psychiatric Times, December, Dec. 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 12)
"To create these tests, psychologists determined what "normal" was
by measuring the characteristics of thousands of people and then
calculating an average and a normal range. In the same way that a normal
range of temperature or rainfall can be calculated, so a normal range of
intelligence, ability or behavior could be established. But psychologists
have twisted this concept of "normal." Instead of referring to something
quantitative and objective, it now refers to something qualitative and
subjective. The original concept of "normal" as average has been replaced
by the psychological one involving pathology. No longer does "normal" have
to do with the common experience of people for psychologists have made
normal such a narrow range that most people today are, by some definition
or another, abnormal. Today "normal" is how psychologists think the world
should be: how families should function, how couples ought to "enjoy
intimacy," how one ought to "resolve conflicts." (Manufacturing Victims,
Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 55)
Conclusion:
The time has come for Christians to wake up and realize that the
psychiatry industry has been waging war against Christianity for over 100
years. The bad news is that they are winning!
Atheistic psychologists and psychiatrists are imposing their own
Darwinian and Humanistic religious views upon society and you! When you
entrust your spirit and mind to such a system, the result will not be good.
It is controlled by the devil in its foundational core philosophy.
The psychiatry industry has successfully convinced judges, lawyers,
insurance companies and the general public that it is a bad thing to take
real problems to the church and God for help. Counseling from a minister, a
pastor, a Christian is a waste of time. If you want results, see a
psychologist or psychiatrist! What a sad day this is.
The psychiatry industry has redefined morality in a way that is
condemned in the Bible.
Christians are blind to the fact that the psychiatry industry has
successfully replaced the hope and happiness offered by Christ, with their
own false promises. People are rarely helped by the psychiatry industry.
Jesus Christ still offers true happiness and hope. Simple Bible
believing Christians can and do often make better councilors than a
psychiatrist with 11 years of university education.
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