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The case of
"Hercules"
(Insanity cured with torture)
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The case of "Hercules"
Biopsychiatric labels DSM-5
Schizophrenia
Checklist Behaviours DSM-7
Insights MMPI-7
Quick Pick EDS-7.1
Insanity, Lazy
Self-disablement EDS-7.2
Sloth: Were put to forced labour
Chemical imbalance EDS-7.3
No. Never ingested opium. Although before the era of prescribed psychiatric drugs (1950's) which create chemical imbalances in the brain, at this point in history Opium was the only drug widely used to create chemical imbalances in the brains of the insane.
Benefits EDS-7.4
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4
Monetary EDS-7.5
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Annoyance Scale EDS-7.6
High
Diagnostic Laws EDS-7.7
Law of Narcissistic Behaviour Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Law of Pediatric Multifarious Obfuscation (PMO) EDS-7.7.12.PMO
Determine the Problem
Lazy
Ask a Child
"Can I join all those men who are sitting around and playing?" EDS-7.7.12.PMO
5 years later EDS-7.7.LPT
They all had formed the habit of working full time.
The case of "Hercules"
Philippe Pinel, 1806 AD: A simple farmer, with no medical training, cures
the insane through slavery with the threat of torture if they disobey in
his boot camp from hell.
We are informed by Dr. Gregory, that a farmer, in the North of Scotland, a
man of Herculean stature, acquired great fame in that district of the
British empire, by his success in the cure of insanity. The great secret of
his practice consisted in giving full employment to the remaining faculties
of the lunatic. With that view, he compelled all his patients to work on
his farm. He varied their occupations, divided their labour, and assigned
to each, the post which he was best qualified to fill. Some were employed
as beasts of draught or burden, and others as servants of various orders
and provinces. Fear was the operative principle that gave motion and
harmony to this rude system. Disobedience and revolt, whenever they
appeared in any of its operations, were instantly and severely punished.
... A system of management analogous to the above, was adopted in a
monastic establishment in the South of France. One of the inspectors
visited each chamber at least, once every day. if he found any of the
maniacs behaving extravagancy, stirring tip quarrels of tumults, making any
objections to his victuals, or refusing to go to bed at night, he was told
in a manner, which of itself was calculated to terrify him, that unless he
instantly conformed, he would have to receive in the morning ten severe
lashes, as a punishment for his disobedience. The threat was invariably
executed with the greatest punctuality; while good conduct, on the
contrary, was not less equally and punctually rewarded. Those who were
disposed to behave orderly, and to observe the rules of the institution,
were admitted to dine at the governor's table. But, if any one abused this
indulgence, he was immediately reminded of it, by a smart stroke over his
fingers with a ferule [like a wooden kitchen spatula], and informed, with
an air of great gravity and coolness, that it became him to conduct himself
with more propriety and reserve. (A Treatise on Insanity, Philippe Pinel,
1806 AD)
Discussion:
In 1806 AD, Philippe Pinel, doctor for the Bicetre Asylum in France, gets
our gold star of achievement of all the major mad house doctors. He used
"moral therapy" that merely threatened torture. Unlike all the other mad
houses, Pinel refused to torture and use vomits, blistering and
bloodletting of the day. Pinel correctly understanding that insanity was a
spiritual problem, not an organic/physical problem with the brain. Instead
of drugs, he cured insanity by "moral treatments". "My faith in
pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at
length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral
remedies had completely failed" Philippe Pinel would rise up today and
oppose the chemical psychiatrists who believe insanity is a chemical
imbalance of the brain, that insanity is incurable. He would object to
labeling the insane as biological misfits for life because it unnecessarily
robs the soul of all hope. Of course, the only reason Pinel's threats of
torture worked were because his patients believed the threats. If they knew
it was a hollow threat, they would not comply. This further underscores the
fact that all behaviour is modified by freewill choice of the insane, not
treatments, drugs, shocks or torture. In this story, Pinel shows that when
threats were backed up with real punishment, his moral therapy worked! It
is like counting to three with a child with the warning they will get a
spanking. Generally the child waits till he hears two before he starts
obeying. But the child only learned this because he, at some previous time,
had let mommy count to three and suffered the consequences of a wooden
spoon on his bare bum a few quick strokes. This approach works with the
insane too, except today, they would sue!
Historically, torturing the insane was a tried and true method of curing
Schizophrenia because insanity is a moral conscious choice. Schizophrenics
are always in full control of their behaviours and just as a good spanking
will cure an insolent child when talking and warning fails, so too torture
cures insolent adults when all else fails. You don't cure insanity any
more than you can cure a shoplifter. Both insanity and shoplifting are
behaviour choices that are "cured" only when the person's will makes a
different choice... or in Biblical terms... when the person is brought to
repentance. Pinel was a brilliant French doctor who notes the success of an
illiterate farmer in "curing" Schizophrenia. While "moral treatment" is
currently illegal, much good would be done and millions of tax dollars
would be saved if it was restored and brought back to use. But when parents
are threatened with jail for merely spanking their children (and society
suffers the consequences of rebellious children who do not fear adults),
the spanking of adults is not likely to be restored any time soon. Society
is moving the wrong direction on this matter.
Notice that a simple farmer, with no medical training, had a much higher
rate of curing the insane, than all today's biopsychiatrists and all their
education.
Benefits from behaviour: This illustrates the Law of Narcissistic Behaviour
Choice (NBC) EDS-7.7.1.NBC
Escape duty or life situation: EDS-7.4.4. The wise farmer understood
that the biggest problem with these insane men was they were lazy and
wanted to become dependent as though they were sick.
The farmer never asked the men if their mother had forced them to
eat their peas when they were young, or if the colour yellow makes them
sad. He didn't care, nor should he have. He check-listed the behaviours and
noticed all the insane had one thing in common: lazy sloths! He ignored any
diagnosis from a "smart doctor" and corrected the lazy behaviour.
Diagnostic laws that are seen illustrated in the case of "Hercules":
1. The mad doctors had lots of theories as to why these men were
insane. These theories generally would focus on broken brain wiring,
defective nerve fibers or a bad mixture of the four humours of the body.
2. A child would look at the group of insane men sitting around
doing nothing and say, "Can I go play with them?" Of course they were men
who should have been working, not children who play. The farmer knew this
and ignored all the "science" behind the "disease" and cured them through
his boot camp from hell. Law of Pediatric Multifarious Obfuscation (PMO)
EDS-7.7.12.PMO
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