Psychiatry's
"chemical view" of man, devoid of spirit.
Psychiatry is a vicious
enemy of Christianity and the Bible.
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Psychiatry is Anti-Christian
Psychiatry is Atheistic
Psychiatry is Humanistic
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Man is not just a pile of chemicals or a binary
computer!
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Introduction:
- Psychiatry is founded upon the "biological/chemical
model" which is opposed to the "Moral/spiritual model"
revealed in scripture. Psychiatry views man as wholly physical, just a
bunch of chemicals and denies the both the existence of God and the spirit
of man.
- Psychiatry openly mocks and ridicules God and Christians,
calling Christian theology "foolish,
misleading and obsolete". The Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders is called the "Bible of Psychiatry".
The DSM-IV is the central and most important book for classifying and
diagnosing mental illnesses in North America. The most recent edition
(2004 AD) has this to say about the Christian view that man has a spirit
that is distinct from his body: ""organic" versus
"non-organic" dichotomy foolish and
obsolete" ... "misleading
derivative dichotomies" "Ryle's exorcism of the "ghost in
the machine" (DSM-IV-TR
Guidebook, 2004 AD, p 85, p14)
- Saying, "Psychiatry is a vicious enemy of
Christians" are harsh words. The truth is, the only one's that are
unaware of this are Christians. Psychiatry openly declared war on
Christianity over 100 years ago! Psychiatrists are trained to subvert
Christianity. Christians are simply ignorant of the battle by confusing
Psychiatry as a legitimate field of medicine. When Psychiatrists read this
page their response is: "Those dumb Christians, we have been kicking
around for 100 years, have finally caught on! The cat is out of the bag!
Now we are in trouble! What took them so long?"
- Just as it is impossible for a young earth creationist who
believes in Jesus to get a Phd in geology so too it is impossible to get a
Phd in psychiatry if you reject a the chemical imbalance cause of
insanity.
- A psychiatry
industry study confirms psychiatry and Christianity are at war!
- There are Psychiatrists who reject the Biological/chemical
view, but they are very rare! The Biological/chemical view is taught as a
foundation in Psychiatry just like evolution is taught as a foundation to
biology.
- "I actually have no objections to real science in the
field, if, for example, it can help me make better medication decisions or
develop newer and better medications. But in general biologic psychiatry has not delivered on its grandiose
and utopian claims, as today's collection of medications are woefully
inadequate to address the complicated clinical issues that come
before me every day." (Against
Biologic Psychiatry, Dr. David Kaiser, Psychologist, Psychiatric
Times, December, Dec. 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 12)
- "Biological psychiatry has not made a single
discovery of clinical relevance in the past 10 years, despite hundreds of
millions of dollars of research funding" (Pseudoscience
in Biological Psychiatry, Colin A. Ross, M.D., & Alvin Pam, Ph.D.,
1995, p. 116)
- Mental illness is a spiritual problem, not a biological
problem. Giving drugs to fix the brain of mentally ill people is like
overhauling the engine of a car because the driver keeps hitting telephone
poles.
- The Psychology Industry relies on the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association, for
many of the names and labels it uses . The
original 1954 version served to crystallize the nineteenth-century belief
that mental illnesses were biologically based and similar to physical
diseases. But unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable
cause, appropriate treatment and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in
the DSM-IV are terms arrived at through peer consensus, designed to be
used in communicating information, conducting research, providing
treatment and doing billing. (Manufacturing Victims,
Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 86)
Humanism and Evolution
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Christianity
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Biological/chemical View
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Moral/spiritual View
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There is no God or creator.
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God created the world in 6
literal 24 hour days about 6000 years ago.
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The human mind is the result of
an evolutionary process of random chances.
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God created the mind of man in
His own image.
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Man has no purpose on earth.
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Man's purpose on earth is defined
by God.
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Man ceases to exist when he dies.
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Man continues to consciously
exist in the spirit world after he dies and awaits the great judgement by
God.
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Man has no hope apart from life on
earth.
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Man has the hope of living in the
paradise of God in heaven for eternity.
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Man is nothing more than a
physical collection of chemicals and neurons.
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Man has a physical body controlled
by a non-physical soul that consciously survives death: Eccl 12:7
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The mind is a creation of the
physical brain.
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The mind uses the brain to
interface with the Body.
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Man is a monochotomous physical
being, comprised of flesh.
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Man is dichotomous, comprised of
the physical (flesh and electricity) and the non-physical (spirit)
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The mind and the brain are
identical.
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The mind is made of spirit and
the brain is made of matter. They are two different entities. The person
exists after the body has been cremated and retains all memories and thoughts
of life in the body.
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The idea of freewill is a myth.
Every action we take is predetermined by chemical reactions, wiring and
neurons.
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Man was created a freewill agent by
God. That freewill animates the body as the spirit chooses.
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Morality is a relative thing
determined by random chances and the joint consent of individuals.
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Morality is determined by God
regardless of whether the majority agree to pass a law legalizing Gay
marriage.
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You are sick and you are
therefore not responsible for gunning down 25 fellow students in a psychotic,
jealous rage.
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There is no exception for sin in
the Bible on the basis of mental illness. You have committed the sin of
murder and need to repent! Luke 13:3
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You are not responsible for
drowning your 5 children in a car because you have a chemical imbalance in
your broken brain.
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Chemical imbalances in the brain are
a myth with no scientific evidence. Actions are choices the spirit of the man
makes. Your body is perfectly normal.
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You can't help cannibalizing the
young boys you raped. Its not your fault. You have an error in your DNA. You
have a family history of doing this.
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All behaviour is a choice. It is
a myth that mental illnesses are inherited from the genes (DNA). There is no
scientific proof of this.
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Anxiety and depression are best
cured with drugs.
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Anxiety and depression indicate
something real is bothering the person. Drugs defer addressing the real
problem.
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Psychiatric drugs are a cure for
mental illness.
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Psychiatric drugs remove the
symptoms of pain, anxiety and depression but never address the actual cause
of the mental illness.
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Psychiatric drugs fix chemical
imbalances in the brain.
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Psychiatric drugs create chemical
imbalances and cause real brain damage.
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You need drugs
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Your spirit is making your body sick,
not the other way around. (Psalm 38:1-5) What actions and choices can you
change to fix this?
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A. The anti-Christian view of Psychiatry today: DSM-IV TR
- "DSM-IV TR" stands for: "The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision."
- The DSM-IV TR is the "Bible" of psychiatry today
that is used in clinical practice in North America. It describes the
Christian view that man is a non-material spirit inside a physical
temporary body: "foolish, misleading and
obsolete".
- The vast majority of psychologists and psychiatrists
aggressively teach that the idea of man having a spirit and the existence
of God himself is "foolish, misleading and
obsolete".
- Following are the quotes from the DSM-IV TR that prove the
predominant view within the field of psychiatry is the "chemical
view": Man is nothing more than a pile of chemicals and neurons.
- The DSM hides behind "Descartes" which is
actually a direct attack against Christianity. The dichotomous view of man
with body and spirit that Descartes taught, was exactly what is taught in
the Christian Bible. It doesn't raise as many red flags attacking
Descartes, rather than Jesus Christ! When psychiatry refers to Descartes,
they substitute Jesus Christ, for that is their real target! Descartes
believed that the human soul was located it in the pineal gland because it
was the only brain structure that was singular and not paired. Of course
this does not mean that Descartes believed that the soul died with the
pineal gland, just that as the soul was incarnate in the body, it resided
in the brain. Although this is incorrect, it was actually better thought
out than medical practice of Descartes in the 16th century.
- "The Term Mental Disorder: At least since Descartes
there has been an unfortunate philosophical position that dichotomizes the
mind and the body. The effects of Cartesian dualism of mind and body
continue to plague psychiatric classification and are evident in the
survival of other misleading derivative dichotomies (e.g., terms such as organic
versus non-organic and mental disorders versus physical disorders). Fortunately, Descartes's dialectic is yielding to a
modern synthesis forged by the converging trends of philosophy (Ryle's
exorcism of the "ghost in the machine") and science (the
emerging understanding of the specific ways in which the brain works to
produce behaviors). The use of the term mental disorder in the title of
DSM-IV-TR (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is
an anachronistic preservation of the Cartesian view. This term appears
increasingly silly as we learn more and more about the physical correlates
of thought, emotion, and psychopathology. The term most frequently
suggested as an alternative to replace mental disorders has been brain
disorders, but this is equally unfortunate and reductionist in the
opposite extreme. Preferable terms for the universe of conditions defined
in DSM-IV would be psychiatric disorders or psychological disorders, but
neither of these is feasible because of the possible professional turf
conflicts they might incite among psychiatrists, psychologists, and other
mental health professionals. Unfortunately, we could not come up with a
better term than mental disorders and thus it survives in DSM-IV-TR."
(DSM-IV-TR
Guidebook, 2004 AD, p 14)
- "The Retirement of the Term Organic: The accumulating
knowledge about the biological factors that contribute to the
traditionally nonorganic mental disorders has made this "organic" versus "nonorganic" dichotomy
foolish and obsolete. For example, no one would seriously argue
that Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder are unrelated to brain
dysfunction." (DSM-IV-TR
Guidebook, 2004 AD, p 85)
- "Except for a few objectively
identifiable brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, there are
neither biological or chemical tests nor biopsy or
necropsy findings for verifying or falsifying DSM diagnoses. It is
noteworthy that in 1952, when the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
published the first edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM), it did not include
hysteria in its roster of mental diseases, even though it was the most common psychiatric
diagnosis-disease until that time. The term's historical and
semantic allusions to women and uteruses were too embarrassing. However,
the APA did not declare hysteria to be a nondisease; instead, it renamed
it "conversion reaction" and
"somatization disorder."
Similarly, in 1973, when the APA removed deviant sex from its roster of
mental illnesses, it first replaced it with ego-dystonic deviant sex;
when that term, too, became an embarrassment, it too was abolished.
However, psychiatric researchers lost no time "discovering" a
host of new mental maladies, ranging from attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder to caffeinism and pathological gambling." (Psychiatry:
The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 2)
B. Today Psychiatrists believe faith in God is bad genes:
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Psychiatry is a
vicious enemy of
Christianity and the Bible.
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- "But recently, materialistic explanations of religion
and spirituality have gotten out of hand. Influenced by this materialistic
prejudice, popular media jump at stories about the violence gene, the fat
gene, the monogamy gene, the infidelity gene, and now, even a God gene!
The argument goes like this: evolutionary
psychologists attempt to explain human spirituality and belief in God by
insisting that cave dwellers in the remote past who believed in a
supernatural reality were more likely to pass on their genes than cave
dwellers who didn't. Progress in genetics and neuroscience has
encouraged some to look, quite seriously, for such a God gene, or else a
God spot, module, factor, or switch in the human brain. By the time the
amazing "God helmet" (a snowmobile helmet modified with
solenoids that purportedly could stimulate subjects to experience God) in
Sudbury, Canada, became a magnet for science journalists in the 1990s (the
Decade of the Brain), materialism was just about passing beyond parody.
Nonetheless, materialists continue to search for a God switch. Such comic
diversions aside, there is no escaping the nonmaterialism of the human
mind." (The
Spiritual Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p xiv.)
- "Even though it's common knowledge these days, it
never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our
mental life-our religious sentiments and even what each of us
regards as his own intimate private self-is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain.
There is nothing else. (V. S. Ramachandran, Neuroscientist, Reith
Lectures, Lecture 1, 2003)
- "Man no longer has need for
"Spirit": it is enough for him to be Neuronal Man."
(Pierre Changettx, Neuronal Alan, p. 169)
- "The social, psychological and cognitive sciences
remain stuck with pre-scientific words and
concepts. For many of us the word
"soul" is as obsolete as "phlogiston," but
scientists still use such imprecise words as "consciousness,"
"personality" and "ego," not to mention
"mind." Perhaps it is time that, in science at least,
"imagination" and "introspection" are remodelled or,
preferably, retired. Artists can have fun with them, but the serious
business of the world has moved on." (Peter Watson, archeologist,
"Not Written in Stone," New Scientist, August 29, 2005)
- "Whatever the specialness of the human brain, there is no need to invoke spiritual forces to account
for its functions. Darwinian principles of variation in populations
and natural selection are sufficient, and the elements invoked by
spiritualism are not required for our being conscious. Being human in mind and brain appears clearly to be the
result of an evolutionary process. The anthropological evidence
emerging for the evolutionary origin of consciousness in humans further
substantiates the notion that Darwin's is the most ideologically
significant of all grand scientific theories." (Edelman and Tononi, A
Universe of Consciousness, p. 81)
- Clinical psychologist Ty Colbert says that in order to
adopt psychiatry's biological model, one has to "believe in a
materialistic, non-spiritual world ... the medical model claims there is no mental activity that is due to the spiritual
dimension. All activity, even one's religious beliefs or the belief
in God, are nothing more than the workings of the brain." (Ty C.
Colbert, Rape of the Soul, How the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern
Psychiatry has Faded Its Patients, 2001, p. 236)
C. Today Psychiatrists believe man is mere chemicals with no spirit:
- "Men ought to know that from
nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and
sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this,
in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear,
and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good,
what are sweet, and what unsavory; some we discriminate by habit, and some
we perceive by their utility. By this we distinguish objects of relish and
disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do not always
please us. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears
and terrors assail us, some by night, and some by day, and dreams and
untimely wanderings, and cares that are not suitable, and ignorance of
present circumstances, desuetude, and unskilfulness. All these things we
endure from the brain, when it is not healthy, but is more hot, more cold,
more moist, or more dry than natural, or when it suffers any other
preternatural and unusual affection. And we become
mad from its humidity. For when it is more moist than natural, it
is necessarily put into motion, and the affection being moved, neither the
sight nor hearing can be at rest, and the tongue speaks in accordance with
the sight and hearing. (On the Sacred Disease, Hippocrates, 400 BC)
- "I think we follow the basic law of nature, which is
that we're a bunch of chemical reactions running
around in a bag." (Dean Hamer, chief of gene structure at the
U.S. National Cancer Institute, "Is God in Our Genes?" Time,
October 25, 2004)
- "materialist doctrine that humans are biological
automatons ("meat puppets") controlled by their genes and
neurons" (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p 293)
- "Blame and envy: Just as your own behavior can be
understood as the natural unfolding of physical and psychological
processes, so can the behavior of others, and your attitudes toward them
might change in the light of this understanding. Seeing exactly how
someone got to be the way they are, and knowing that their virtues and
faults arise out of circumstances, not from an
autonomous, non-physical agent, (spirit) can help to reduce the
time spent on unproductive blaming and envy." (Personal and Social
Consequences, Center for Naturalism)
- "materialist neuroscientists and philosophers hold
that mind, consciousness, and self are by-products of the brain's
electrical and chemical processes, and that RSMEs
[religious/spiritual/mystical experiences] are "nothing but"
brain states or delusions created by neural activity. Accordingly these
scientists and philosophers believe that there is no spiritual source for
RSMEs, that is, they think that the human brain creates these experiences
and, in so doing, creates God." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p289)
- "At that point it may become obvious to everyone that
all we are looking at is a piece of machinery, an analog chemical
computer, that processes information from the environment.
"All," since you can look and look and you
will not find any ghostly self inside, or any mind, or any soul.
Thereupon, in the year 2006 or 2026, some new Nietzsche will step forward
to announce: "The self is dead"--except that being prone to the
poetic, like Nietzsche I, he will probably say: "The soul is
dead." He will say that he is merely bringing the news, the news of
the greatest event of the millennium: "The
soul, that last refuge of values, is dead, because educated people no
longer believe it exists." (Tom Wolfe, "Sorry, but Your
Soul Just Died," Athenaeum Reading Room, 1996)
- "A brain was always going to
do what it was caused to do by local mechanical disturbances."
(Daniel Dennett, Materialist philosopher, in Samuel Guttenplan, A
Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, 1994, p. 237)
- "I belong to a minority-nonmaterialist
neuroscientists. Most scientists today are materialists who believe
that the physical world is the only reality. Absolutely everything
else-including thought, feeling, mind, and will-can be explained in terms
of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that
religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p ix)
- "There are no principles of psychology that are
free-standing, in the sense that they do not need ultimately to be
understood through the study of the human brain,
which in turn must ultimately be understood on the
basis of physics and chemistry . . . Of course, everything is ultimately
quantum- mechanical; the question is whether quantum mechanics will appear
directly in the theory of the mind, and not just in the deeper-level
theories like chemistry on which the theory of the mind will be
based." (Reductionism redux, Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate and
professor of physics at the University of Texas, New York review of Books,
October 5, 1995, p 39-42)
- "Bleuler's invention of schizophrenia in 1911
completed the psychiatric transformation of language from a distinctively
human characteristic into a "biological"
marker of brain disease." (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 116 )
- "The leading practitioner of philosophizing based on
reducing mind to consciousness and consciousness to the brain is John R.
Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California at
Berkeley. Describing himself as an "antireductionist
materialist," he states: "Consciousness is a mental, and
therefore physical, property of the brain."29 His review essay in The
New York Review of Books, titled "The Mystery of Consciousness,"
is illustrated with a "schematic drawing of a neuron, with its axon
and dendrites reaching other neurons in a synaptic contact." ...
Emphasizing that "what in any case I want is a causal explanation of
consciousness," Searle repeatedly asserts that the brain causes
consciousness: "How exactly do neurobiological processes in the brain
cause consciousness? . . . It is an amazing fact that everything in our
conscious life . . . is caused by brain processes." He also asserts
that "Consciousness is caused by lower-level
neuronal processes in the brain and is itself a feature of the brain.
" In other words, Searle makes consciousness (minding) an attribute
of brains, not persons. Similarly, memories are not experiences that
persons have; they are things that "we must store . .. somehow in the
synaptic connections between neurons." (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 81, 82)
- "And if we are asked why, in the case of a successful
brain transplantation, we should expect the personality or the personal
character to be transplanted . . . then we can hardly answer this question
without speaking of the mind or the self; nor without speaking of its
conjectural liaison with the brain .. . and we should have to predict (it
would be a prediction testable in principle) that, after the
transplantation, the person will claim identity with
the donor of the brain and that he will be able to
"prove" this identity. . . . we conjecture that due to this
liaison the brain is the carrier of the self-identity of the person. (The
self and its brain, K. R. Popper, J. C. Eccles, p 118, 1985 AD)
- "One of the most famous contemporary scientists
writing about the mind is Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate and codiscoverer
(with James Watson) structure of DNA. In a book titled The Astonishing
hypothesis he argues that "'you,' your joys and your sorrows, your
memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free
will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a
vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules .. .
each of us is the behaviors of a vast, interacting set of neurons."
[The astonishing Hypothesis, p 3, 206]" (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 84)
- "I therefore regard a human being as nothing but a
particular type of machine, the human brain as nothing but an information
processing device, the human soul as nothing but a program being run on a
computer called brain. Further, all possible types of living beings,
intelligent or not, are of the same nature, and subject to the same laws
of physics as constrain all information processing devices. (The Physics
of immortality, F. J. Tipler, p xi)
- "We operate on the principle that the laws of
psychology that govern behavior are really brain
laws that operate on a materialist philosophy. When Johnny can't read,
there's an explanation in the brain. . . . when Billy has murderous
intent, there is explanation for Billy's murderous intent. . . .
Ultimately our plan constitutes a challenge to the societal assessments
that led to the principles of common law [based on the presumption of free
will]. (Neurophysiology, philolophy on collision course"?, P. Cotton,
JAMA 269, 1993 AD: 1485-86; quoting Michael Merzenich, member of the Keck
Center for Integrated Neuroscience at the University of California)
17.
"If we could go to death row and show that
the inhabitants have something wrong with their brains that could be
fixed so they would become peaceful, productive members of society, obviously
that would and should produce a tremendous change in the way we approach homicidal
behavior." (Neurophysiology, philosophy on collision course"? , P.
Cotton, JAMA 269, 1993 AD: 1486; quoting Philip E. Johnson, a professor of
criminal law at the University of California in Berkeley)
18.
"Whatever the specialness of the human brain, there is no need to invoke spiritual forces to account for
its functions. Darwinian principles of variation in populations and
natural selection are sufficient, and the elements invoked by spiritualism are
not required for our being conscious. Being human in mind and brain appears
clearly to be the result of an evolutionary process. The anthropological
evidence emerging for the evolutionary origin of consciousness in humans
further substantiates the notion that Darwin's is the most ideologically
significant of all grand scientific theories." (Edelman and Tononi, A
Universe of Consciousness, p. 81)
19.
"We would want to know in every millisecond (the time it takes a
neuron to fire) which of the 100 billion or so neurons are active and which are
not. If we denote activity by a "1" and inactivity by a
"0," this would require a string of 100 billion zeros and ones every
millisecond, or 100 trillion every second. To give a running account of the
true neural state, I would have to produce in every second something like 110
million books, each containing a million symbols. This awesome record is to be
compared with my mental states as they occur." (Eric Harth, The Creative
Loop: How the Brain Makes a Mind (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993), p. 102)
20.
"The social, psychological and cognitive sciences remain stuck with
pre-scientific words and concepts. For many of us the word "soul" is
as obsolete as "phlogiston," but scientists still use such imprecise
words as "consciousness," "personality" and
"ego," not to mention "mind." Perhaps it is time that, in
science at least, "imagination" and "introspection" are
remodelled or, preferably, retired. Artists can have fun with them, but the
serious business of the world has moved on." (Peter Watson, archeologist,
"Not Written in Stone," New Scientist, August 29, 2005)
D. Psychiatrists once believed thought was a secretion of the brain:
- Chemical psychiatrists once viewed "thought and
personality", including all emotions as being the result of chemical
secretions of the brain. The idea of giving a "love potion" to a
woman who then uncontrollably and irresistibly falls in love with you, is
a concept that directly descended from this junk science. Chemicals and
body hormones do not induce or cause any emotion like love, hate, jealousy
or anger. Mood, emotion and choice all have their origin in the human
spirit, not the physical body.
- "The brain secretes thought as the liver secretes
bile." (On the relations between the physical and moral aspects of
man, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1802 AD)
- "The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes
gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine." (Letters on
physiology, Karl Vogt, 1845-46)
- "The brain secretes thought as the kidney secretes
urine." Jakob Moleschott, 1822-1893)
E. Today Psychiatrists believe the brain is identical to the mind:
- The Bible teaches us that the brain is the go-between
organ that connects the immaterial spirit to the physical body: "The
brain, however, is not the mind; it is an organ suitable for connecting a
mind to the rest of the universe." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p xi)
- "Why do people believe that there are dangerous
implications of the idea that the mind is a
product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome,
and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?" (Steven
Pinker, Cognitive scientist, interview at the Edge, A Biological
Understanding of Human Nature, undated)
- "But materialists think that
the distinction you make between your mind as an immaterial entity and
your brain as a bodily organ has no real basis, The mind is assumed
to be a mere illusion generated by the workings of the brain. Some
materialists even think you should not in fact use terminology that
imp1ies that your mind exists." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p x)
- "If you have the right sort of process and you have
enough time, you can create big fancy things, even
things with minds, out of processes which are individually stupid,
mindless, simple. Just a whole lot of little mindless events
occurring over billions of years can create not just order, but design,
not just design, but minds, eyes and brains." (Richard Dawkins in an
interview with Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers)
- "The brain and its satellite glands have now been
probed to the point where no particular site
remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind."
(Sociobiologist Edward 0. Wilson Quoted at BrainyQuote)
- "The social, psychological and cognitive sciences
remain stuck with pre-scientific words and
concepts. For many of us the word
"soul" is as obsolete as "phlogiston," but
scientists still use such imprecise words as
"consciousness," "personality" and "ego,"
not to mention "mind." Perhaps it is time that, in
science at least, "imagination" and "introspection"
are remodelled or, preferably, retired. Artists can have fun with them,
but the serious business of the world has moved on." (Peter Watson,
archeologist, "Not Written in Stone," New Scientist, August 29,
2005)
- "What we call 'mind' is the expression of the
activity of the brain." (Nancy C. Andreasen, professor of psychiatry
at the University of Iowa, What Is Psychiatry?, 1997)
- "Since consciousness and
thought are entirely physical products of your brain and nervous
system-and since your brain arrived fully imprinted at birth-what makes
you think you have free will? Where is it going to come from? What
"ghost," what "mind," what "self," what
"soul," what anything that will not be immediately grabbed by
those scornful quotation marks, is going to bubble up your brain stem to
give it to you? I have heard neuro-scientists theorize that, given
computers of sufficient power and sophistication, it would be possible to
predict the course of any human being's life moment by moment, including
the fact that the poor devil was about to shake his head over the very
idea." (Tom Wolfe, Sorry but Your Soul Just Died, Athenaeum Reading
Room)
- "The mind exists, like a
rainbow shimmering over the falls. Yes, it's there, but it doesn't
affect anything. You know it's there because some experiences are unique
to yourself, for example, whatever you personally associate with peanut
butter. Merely a product of brain-body processes, the mind sometimes
facilitates for itself the illusion that it affects those processes, much
as if the rainbow thought it affected the falls in some way. (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p 94, describing
the materialistic "Epiphenomenalism" view of the brain) .
- "Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain,
but have no effects upon any physical events." (Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy)
- "Despite our every instinct to the contrary, there is
one thing that consciousness is not: some entity deep inside the brain
that corresponds to the "self," some kernel of awareness that
runs the show, as the "man behind the
curtain" manipulated the illusion of a powerful magician in
The Wizard of Oz. After more than a century of
looking for it, brain researchers have long since concluded that there is
no conceivable place for such a self to be located in the physical brain,
and that it simply doesn't exist." (Lemonick, Glimpses of the
Mind, Time, July 17 1995)
- "My fundamental premise about the brain is that its
workings-what we sometimes call "mind"-are
a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more... At
any rate, both because of the clear trend in the recent history of biology
and because there is not a shred of evidence to support it [the soul], I will not in these pages entertain any hypotheses on
what used to be called the mind-body dualism, the idea that
inhabiting the matter of the body is something made of quite different
stuff, called mind." (Carl Sagan, astronomer, The Dragons of Eden,
1977, introduction, p7)
- "The psychoneural translation hypothesis [PTH]
recognizes that mental processes (e.g., volitions, goals, emotions,
desires, beliefs) are neurally instantiated in the brain, but it argues
that these mental processes cannot be reduced to
and are not identical with neuroelectric and neurochemical processes.
Indeed, mental processes-which cannot be localized in the brain-cannot be
eliminated. The reason that mental processes
cannot be localized within the brain is that there is actually no way of
capturing thoughts merely from studying the activity of neurons."
(The
Spiritual Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p150)
- "Because nouns such as "bug" or
"hug" name real objects or events, we understand that
"bugging" a person means annoying him, and that hugging him
means giving him a hug; and because the noun "mind" names a fictitious
object, we misunderstand "minding" as using our
"mind." But we have no minds. Instead, we, qua living persons,
mind. How and what we mind is who we are. Minding is quintessentially our
own business." (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 17)
- "[T]he brain and mind are one ... They are one
entity.... I use the hyphenated term 'brain-mind' to denote unity. . . .
Every detail of a dream can be accounted for in terms of neuronal
signal-patterns." (Chemistry of the Conscious states, A. J. Hobson,
professor of psychiatry at Harvard, 1995 AD, p 6-7)
- "Paul Churchland, also a professor of philosophy at
the University of California in San Diego, pulls no punches about his
commitment to a reductive-materialist view of the human mind. In his
latest book, The Eitqine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, he asserts that
all human mental life is reducible to the brain viewed as a
"biological computer. ... Churchland's finale is truly mind/brain
boggling. "The aim of these concluding suggestions," he
declares, "is not to deny us our humanity, but to see it better
served than ever before. That is why understanding the brain is so
supremely important. It is the engine of reason. It is the seat of the
soul." With this sentence, on page 319, the book ends. Three-hundred
ten pages earlier, Churchland asserts: "The doctrine
of an immaterial soul looks, to put it frankly, like just another
myth, false not just at the edges, but to the core." So is soul a
myth or is "it" in the brain?" (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 78, 80)
F. Today Psychiatrists believe all mental illness has a biological
cause:
- "There are two problems with asserting that mental
and physical illnesses are analogous. First, as a general rule physical
illness has an objective biological component, and that is not generally
the case with mental illness. Objective physical signs are the unifying
structure that allows diverse problems like cancer and colds to be
categorized together while alcohol-induced persisting dementia and alcohol
abuse lack such an objective link. Second, the concept of mental illness
is more susceptible to bias based on values than the concept of physical
illness (Fulford, 1999; Widiger, 2002)." (The Journal of mind and
behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)
- "The biomedical subtype is, arguably, the most
popular among current theorists and researchers. Although biological
conceptualizations are as old as mental illness itself, psychiatry has
been especially important in promoting and utilizing the biological
approach. Neo-Kraepelinian psychiatrists have been instrumental in
forwarding the idea that mental illnesses are discrete biological entities
best treated medically as sicknesses (Blashfield, 1984), and some assert
this idea has been encoded into the DSM despite its avowedly atheoretical
stance (Blashfield, 1982, 1984; Follette and Flouts, 1996)." (The
Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)
- "The time before MRIs and PET scans is often
characterized as the psychoanalytic Dark Age, but it must be remembered
that the conceptualization of mental illness as biological is as old as
mental illness itself. Of course, the biological perspective stretches all
the way back to Hippocrates, but it was also prevalent among the very
earliest psychiatrists. The opening editorial of the Archives for
Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases published in 1867 stated that
"Psychiatry has undergone a transformation in its relation to the
rest of medicine. This transformation rests principally on the realization
that patients with so-called `mental illnesses' are really individuals
with illnesses of the nerves and brain" (as quoted in Bentall, 2003,
p. 150)." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p
157-173)
- "the statement [that mental illnesses are really
individuals with illnesses of the nerves and brain] could be construed as
a sort of empty biological promise — made by those who study mental
illness — that has never been fulfilled. The
plain, cold, hard fact is that there are almost no mental disorders for
which a specific biological cause can be pinpointed. Among the few
exceptions are drug effects, mental retardation due to a genetic or brain
disorder, and cognitive disorders such as those that occur in Alzheimer's
disease or brain dam-age. Only these disorders have clear biological
etiologies, and they are not prototypical of mental illness. Even
proponents of the biological perspective characterize the current state of
knowledge about the biology of mental illness as "rudimentary"
(Charney et al., 2002, p. 33)." (The Journal of mind and behavior,
Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)
- "A tautology often stated by proponents of the
essentialist position is that mind and body are inseparable. This usually
precedes a statement on how there is no clear distinction between physical
and mental illness. Such logic was cited as the reason for the removal of
the term organic in the DSM (Spitzer et al., 1992). It is also given as
the reason to rename mental disorders as brain disorders (Baker and
Menken, 2001). Unfortunately, claims about the equality of brain and
mental illness ignore empirical evidence and are, presumably, based on the promotion of an essentialist ideology.
Even a cursory examination of the DSM will show that few disorders have
known somatic causes. As such, to assert that mental illnesses are brain
diseases ignores the paucity of evidence for such claims when considering
all mental disorders." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A.
Boysen, v28, p 157-173)
- "We operate on the principle that the laws of
psychology that govern behavior are really brain
laws that operate on a materialist philosophy. When Johnny can't
read, there's an explanation in the brain. . . . when Billy has murderous
intent, there is explanation for Billy's murderous intent. . . .
Ultimately our plan constitutes a challenge to the societal assessments
that led to the principles of common law [based on the presumption of free
will]. (Neurophysiology, philolophy on collision course"?, P. Cotton,
JAMA 269, 1993 AD: 1485-86; quoting Michael Merzenich, member of the Keck
Center for Integrated Neuroscience at the University of California)
- "If we could go to death row
and show that the inhabitants have something wrong with their brains
that could be fixed so they would become peaceful, productive members of
society, obviously that would and should produce a tremendous change in
the way we approach homicidal behavior." (Neurophysiology, philosophy
on collision course"? , P. Cotton, JAMA 269, 1993 AD: 1486; quoting
Philip E. Johnson, a professor of criminal law at the University of
California in Berkeley)
G. Today Psychiatrists reject man has freewill:
- "Materialists must believe that their minds are simply an illusion created by the workings of
the brain and therefore that free will does
not really exist and could have no influence in controlling any
disorder." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p xii)
- "The (physical) scientist studies nature. He explains
material phenomena by reference to their causes, that is, the preexisting
events that "determine" their present state. In Freud's day,
this understanding is what was meant by "determinism," the
opposite of which was dismissively called
"belief in free will." This understanding is still the
case among scientists who view belief in free will
as similar to belief in superstitions. Freud was deeply committed
to the claim that psychoanalysis is a natural science and hence requires the denial of free will. He adopted this
position early in his career and never budged from it." (Psychiatry:
The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 48)
- "In the materialist's view, our
"minds"-soul, spirit, free will-are
simply an illusion created by the electrical charges in the neurons of our
brains. Nature is, as Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins famously put
it, a "blind watchmaker."" (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p 1)
- "The first dogma which I came
to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all
notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not
therefore be influenced by human wills." (Analytical philosopher
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)
- "Everything, including that which happens in our
brains, depends on these and only on these: A set
of fixed, deterministic laws. A purely random set of accidents."
(Marvin Minsky, Artificial intelligence promoter)
- "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and
your ambitions, your sense of personal identity
and free will, are in fact no more than the
behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
... You're nothing but a pack of neurons." (Francis Crick,
Astonishing Hypothesis, p. 3)
H. Today Psychiatrists view the brain as a binary computer:
"Computers
may beat men at chess, but they never brag or rejoice about it. This is the
difference between a computer and a person."
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- Artificial intelligence machines and computers in general,
appear to have intelligence because man programmed it to look that way.
- The Artificial intelligence computers that TV commentators
predict will be in every house by 2030 AD, and what Hollywood movies
visualize today, have failed to note that artificial intelligence cannot
be achieved with even an infinite number of calculations per second. The
computers of the future will have enormous processing power, but still be
unable to feel the pride of beating a human at chess or pity for humans
when they never win again.
- It is impossible for computers to ever create a true
person hood as man experiences... being created in the image of God.
- "I don't think there's
anything unique about human intelligence," Gates says over
dinner one night at a nearly deserted Indian restaurant in a strip mall
near his office. Even while eating, he seems to be multitasking;
ambidextrous, he switches his fork back and forth throughout the meal and
uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes. "All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions
and emotions operate in a binary fashion," he explains. "We can someday replicate that on a machine."
Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based,
but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to
sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a
carbon-based system." The notion, he admits, is a bit frightening,
but he jokes that it would also be cheating. "It's like reverse-engineering someone else's product in order to
solve a challenge." Might there be some greater meaning to the
universe? When engaged or amused, he is voluble, waving his hands and
speaking loudly enough to fill the restaurant. "It's possible, you
can never know, that the universe exists only for me." It's a mix of
Descartes' metaphysics and Tom Stoppard's humor. "If so," he
jokes, "it's sure going well for me, I must admit." He laughs;
his eyes sparkle. Here's something machines can't
do (I don't think): giggle about their plight in the cosmos, crack
themselves up, have fun. Right? Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?
His face suddenly becomes expressionless,
his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly
and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so
mimicked at Microsoft that a meeting there can resemble a round table of
ecstatic rabbis. Finally, as if from an automaton, comes the answer:
"I don't have any evidence on that."
Rock, rock, rock. "I don't have any evidence
on that." (Time, Jan 13, 1997 Vol. 149 NO. 2, Bill Gates,
Microsoft CEO)
- "None of this is inconsistent with the fact that
memory, like the mind, depends on the brain, but
is not in it. Our experiences leave an imprint on the brain, as
well as on other parts of the body, for example, the immune and the
muscular-skeletal systems. However, the belief that memory is a record, a
sort of intracranial filing system—and that the relationship between
memory and the brain is like the relationship between information in a
computer and the disk on which it is stored—is false." (The Meaning of the
Mind, Thomas Szasz, 1996 AD, p 48)
- "The human mind is a computer made out of meat."
(Marvin Minsky, Artificial intelligence promoter)
- "Can humans have a spiritual nature in a universe
without purpose or design? As we have seen, the lines of inquiry that seek
to ground human nature in a purely material reality have not succeeded.
Evolutionary psychology, for example, fails at precisely the point where
uniquely human behavior begins-with genuine
altruism. Likewise, primate studies and AI research
fail at the very points where we require answers." (The Spiritual
Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p23)
- Jehovah's Witnesses are a
non-Christian cult that follows the Watchtower magazine over the Bible.
Like psychiatrists, they deny man has a spirit or a soul. They actually
use computers to explain what happens to man's souls when they die. They
teach that God "saves the individual man's program" onto a
floppy disk or DVD and put it into a grand filing cabinet in heaven. Come
the resurrection, God simply takes the floppy disk and boots up the man
again and he suddenly becomes alive! Of course this is Theological heresy
and although it is taught in the Watchtower magazine, it contradicts
almost every book of the Christian Bible. Click here for proof man consciously survives death.
I. Today Psychiatrists believe "bad genetics" are the cause of mental illness:
- "Consider that, up until the present, psychiatric
genomics has been limited to studies of chromosomal link-age wherein a
putative gene for a disorder could be roughly localized to a given region
of a chromosome. The burgeoning understanding of the human genome taking
place will lead to a complete identification of the "correct"
sequence, as well as to an understanding of genetic variation among
humans. In many humans, a single base or single nucleotide is modified,
and it is a combination of knowing the entire genetic code and determining
aberrations in individuals with disease that will
allow the pin-pointing of specific genes associated with psychiatric
disorders." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 53)
- "The latest deadweight dragging us closer to phrenology
is "evolutionary psychology," or the science formerly known as
sociobiology, which studies the evolutionary roots of human behavior.
There is nothing inherently wrong with this enterprise, and it has
proposed some intriguing theories, particularly about the evolution of
language. The problem is that evolutionary psychology suffers from the
scientific equivalent of megalomania. Most of its
adherents are convinced that virtually every human action or feeling,
including depression, deviant sex, religion, and consciousness, was put
directly into our brains by natural selection. In this view,
evolution becomes the key--the only key--that can unlock our
humanity." Jerry A. Coyne, Evolutionary biologist, "The Fairy
Tales of Evolutionary Psychology," New Republic, March 4, 2000)
- "biological determinist claims that bad behavior
(usually about sex or violence) is genetically
caused can be guaranteed generous and uncritical media attention,
even by science journalists whose knowledge of contemporary genomics ought
to have made them more alert to its problems." (Hilary Rose,
"Spot the Infidelity Gene," Guardian Unlimited, December 1,
2004.)
J. Today Psychiatrists believe "chemical imbalances" in the brain are the cause of mental
illness:
- "The discoveries of the earlier effective
antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers were frequently
based on serendipitous observations. The repeated demonstration of
efficacy of these agents then served as an impetus for considerable
research into the neurobiological bases of their therapeutic effects and
of emotion and cognition themselves, as well as the biological basis of the major psychiatric disorders."
(Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, xxi)
- "Here, we focus on the principles of
neurotransmission and second-messenger generation that we believe are
critical for an understanding of the biological
bases of major psychiatric disorders, as well as the mechanisms by
which effective treatments may exert their beneficial effects." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 3)
- "Psychiatry, like much of the rest of medicine, has
entered a new and exciting age demarcated by the rapid advances and the
promise of molecular and cellular biology and neuroimaging. It is our firm
belief that although individual neurotransmitters are involved in
mediating the manifestations of major psychiatric
diseases, these diseases can be best envisioned as arising out of
abnormalities of integrated synapses and circuits." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 47)
- "During the 1990s, the "Decade of the
Brain," the drive in psychiatry was to
develop a comprehensive understanding of brain function at levels
that range from mind to molecule and to determine how aberrations in these
normal functions lead to the development of symptoms of mental
illness" (Textbook
of Clinical Psychiatry, Hales, Yudofsky, 2003 AD, p 427)
- "Rapid advances in the identification of the human
genome and in the methodology for genetic manipulation have combined to
open a window into the brain. We are accumulating knowledge of human gene
mutations and their connection to neurological and
psychiatric disease at a rapid pace. As genes are being identified,
the proteins for which they code are also becoming known. With this
knowledge, the pathogenic mechanism of some
diseases is becoming apparent. Understanding these maladies at the
molecular level is likely to lead to new methods of diagnosis and novel
approaches to therapy." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 65)
- "This chapter reviews the basic framework of the
anatomical distribution of the major neurochemical systems in the primate
brain. These organizational schemas provide important constraints on the
actions of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. In addition, the consequences
of the cellular actions and pharmacological manipulations of their
synthesis, release, reuptake, and receptor binding depend on the rich and
diverse interplay across these neuro-chemical systems. Clearly, a major
challenge for the future involves the elucidation of these interactions
and the characterization of how these interactions
are disturbed in psychiatric disorders." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 84)
- "Psychoneuroendocrine studies
continue to play a prominent role in neuropsychiatric research,
particularly in the area of depression. For this review, we
highlighted the most recent significant results, as well as newer
observations. Despite some intriguing findings, none of the aforementioned
results, including HPA dysregulation in depression (Kasckow et al. 2001;
Steckler et al. 1999; Tsigos and Chrousos 2002), are observed consistently
in any given patient population. Reasons for the variability and
heterogeneity in hormone levels or response are unclear. Some differences
likely are attributable to demographic and clinical characteristics of the
patients, as well as to diagnostic issues. Methodological differences,
such as sampling frequency and sample size issues, also invariably have
contributed to the disparity in findings. In addition, since any given
hormone can exert organizational and activational influences on the
regulation of multiple endocrine axes, the adaptive neuroendocrine
sequelae to stressors are likely to be quite variable across individuals.
Consequently, regardless of the reasons, none of the neuroendocrine
measures as yet show sufficient sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic
confidence to be useful for the differential diagnosis or prediction of
treatment response. With the use of neuroimaging techniques to unravel the
neurotransmitter circuitry underlying psychopathology, combined with
molecular methodologies to profile individual characteristics, the meaning
and mechanisms of the observed psychoneuroendocrine abnormalities should
be forthcoming." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 123)
K. The chemical view was emboldened by the discovery of the
cause of Parkinson's:
- This quote shows the focus on chemical imbalances led to
the discovery of Parkinson's., it shows the general bias towards mental
illness caused by broken brains.
- Parkinson's disease truly does have a physiological
etiology (cause). But this does not mean that mental illness have a
chemical cause as it commonly believed. Parkinson's is not treatable by
psychiatrists anyway! For Parkinson's disease you need a real medical
doctor!
- So although the chemical imbalance bias led to the cause
of Parkinson's, no actual success have been logged in the area of mental
illness. This is because it is a myth that mental illness is caused by a chemical
imbalance in the brain.
- "Much attention has been appropriately directed
toward the neurotransmitter systems that are the targets of these
medications. A potential consequence of this emphasis is the idea, in its
simplest form, that an excess or deficit in the functional activity of a
given neurotransmitter is the pathophysiological basis for the disease
process of interest. Although variants of this view have been very useful
in motivating investigations of the molecular underpinnings and bio-chemical
features of neurotransmitter systems and in spurring the development of
novel psychopharmacological agents that influence these systems, in
extreme cases, this perspective tends to consider a given psychiatric
disorder as the consequence solely of the postulated disturbance in a
neurotransmitter system. In addition to this limited conceptual
perspective, neurotransmitter-based views of
psychiatric disorders sometimes seem to attribute behavioral,
emotional, or cognitive functions to neurotransmitters, instead of
explicitly recognizing that neurotransmitters have defined actions on
receptors, whereas behaviors, emotions, and cognitive abilities represent
emergent properties of the integrated activity of large networks of
neurons. This view of psychiatric disorders was influenced, at least in
part, by extrapolations from earlier successes in the study of Parkinson's
disease, which was then viewed as a single- neurotransmitter (e.g.,
dopamine [DA]) disease caused by a localized neuropathology (e.g., cell
death in the substantia nigra)." (Textbook
of Psychopharmacology, Schatzberg, Nemeroff, 2002 AD, p 69)
- The success of finding a chemical problem with Parkinson's
has sent "chemical scientists" following a path that leads no
where.
- The diseases that they have discovered with a genetic or
neurochemical link, impair cognition, they do not make you act crazy. The
personality changes seen in alteizmers is the core value of the person
uninhibited.
L. Biopsychiatrists and reductionist psychologists believe rapist
are born rapists and can't help themselves:
1.
The next time an activist judge sentences a serial child rapist to therapy
and rehabilitation rather than 25 years in jail, remember what you are about to
read. This is the "not guilty for reasons of I WAS BORN THAT and can't
help raping children."
2.
"To sum up, the belief that men cannot
really choose to reduce their arousal, whether based on ancient
traditions or modern materialism, is simply mistaken. Penal codes that hold men
accountable for sexual assault are based in neural reality, not simple-minded
idealism." (The
Spiritual Brain, Mario Beauregard Ph.D., Neuroscientist, 2007, p133)
3.
"There is no kernel of independent moral
agency.... We are not, as philosopher Daniel Dennett puts it,
"moral levitators" that rise above circumstances in our choices,
including choices to rob, rape, or kill." (Tom W Clark, Director, Center
for Naturalism, CFN)
4.
"The self: As strictly physical beings, we don't exist as
immaterial selves, either mental or spiritual, that control behavior. Thought,
desires, intentions, feelings, and actions all arise on their own without the
benefit of a supervisory self, and they are all the products of a physical
system, the brain and the body. The self is constituted by more or less
consistent sets of personal characteristics, beliefs, and actions; it doesn't
exist apart from those complex physical processes that make up the individual.
It may strongly seem as if there is a self sitting behind experience,
witnessing it, and behind behavior, controlling it, but this impression is
strongly disconfirmed by a scientific understanding of human behavior."
(Center for Naturalism, CFN, Tenets of Naturalism)
5.
Richard Dawkins explains the philosophical foundation for why some
judges, the ACLU and other special interest groups do not believe that
pedophiles, rapists, murderers and all mentally ill people are not responsible
for their crimes and sins: "As scientists, we believe that human brains,
though they may not work in the same way as man-made computers, are as surely
governed by the laws of physics. When a computer
malfunctions, we do not punish it. We track down the problem and fix it,
usually by replacing a damaged component, either in hardware or software."
(Richard Dawkins in response to the World Question Center 2006 question,
"What is your dangerous idea?")
M. The false doctrines of Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and
Calvinists are reductionist and Biopsychiatric:
1.
Some Christian sects unfortunately take the identical view of man as
biologic psychiatrists.
a.
Jehovah's Witnesses are reductionist because
they have the identical view of man as biopsychiatrists. Jehovah's Witnesses
reject the existence of the spirit and therefore believe all human memory is
stored in the fleshly brain.
b.
Catholics, Calvinists, Baptists, Pentecostals all believe man has a
human spirit that consciously survives death, but believe in inherited sin
where sinful behaviour choice is forced on every man genetically from Adam's
first sinful freewill choice.
c.
Calvinists like reductionist biopsychiatrists, reject freewill and view
man as a meat puppet, a biological robot acting out of impulse.
2.
Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, also believe
that man is nothing but a pile of chemicals and this lead them to wrongly fear
that sinful behaviours are transmitted through blood transfusions:
a.
"The blood in any person is in reality the person himself. It
contains all the peculiarities of the individual from whence it comes. This
includes hereditary taints, disease susceptibilities, poisons due to personal
living, eating and drinking habits. The poisons that produce the impulse to
commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood ... Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority
complexes, petty crimes - these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion"
(Watchtower, Sept. 1, 1961).
3.
Calvinists, on the other hand, believe that sinful behaviours are
physically transmitted by DNA from mother to child through a false doctrine
called "inherited sin".
4.
Catholics invented the false doctrine of
the immaculate conception of Mary, so
Jesus would be free of any "physically transmitted sin" when she
conceived Christ as a virgin.
Conclusion:
- A psychiatry
industry study confirms psychiatry and Christianity are at war!
- "What is essential at this time is for psychiatrists
and other clinicians to speak out against the
ideology known as biologic psychiatry." (Against
Biologic Psychiatry, Dr. David Kaiser, Psychologist, Psychiatric
Times, December, Dec. 1996, Vol. XIII, Issue 12)
- "I believe they would eschew responsibility for these
problematic individuals. However, consistency would demand our giving over
"biologic brain diseases" to
them. The fact that there is no evidence confirming the brain disease
attribution is, at this point, irrelevant. What we are dealing with here
is fashion, politics and money. This level of intellectual/scientific
dishonesty is just too egregious for me to continue to support by
my membership." (L.R.
Mosher, Psychiatrist, resignation letter from the American Psychiatric
Association, 1998)
- Chemical psychiatry openly mocks the
Bible doctrine that man has a spirit distinct from his body and views man
as a chemical robot. Psychiatric research has been dead-ended for 250
years because psychiatrists are looking for the cause and cure for
insanity in the brain. Biological psychiatrists are looking for the wrong
thing, in the wrong place. Instead of looking for chemical imbalances in
the brain, they should be looking for freewill behaviour choices in the
spirit, governed by the conscience.
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