CMD on Nostr: It occurs to me that there's a wide range of behaviors that are pathologized by ...
It occurs to me that there's a wide range of behaviors that are pathologized by modern psychology/psychiatry, and which were *not* always so pathologized.
The typical examples given by right-wing people are things like racism, but if we explore deeper we might be able to find some of these which may not be obvious.
I'd like to bring up "self-harm".
The individual who coined the term "self-harm," and the person who is probably most responsible for the pathologization of self-harm, was a man by the name of Karl Menninger. Although not himself a jew (he was a Presbyterian), he was very clearly a jew-lover. He writes in an essay titled "The Genius of the Jew in Psychiatry":
"Traditionally and historically, spiritual values, that is to say, the importance of certain feelings and abstractions, have always appealed to Jews .... [They] possess the saving grace of turning suffering and resentment and fear into constructive and helpful efforts based on a kind of spiritual discernment with a quantum of scientific detachment, and that this seems to occur relatively more often among Jews than among Gentiles. Would that it occurred oftener among both!"
That an avowed philosemite is the architect of the notion that "self-harm" is bad makes the idea genuinely questionable. I suspect one of the following explanations:
1) "Self-harm" is an easy and effective way to manage intense emotions - it is very grounding - and treating an effective and cheap solution as an illness is a great way for Psychiatrists to force pills upon otherwise healthy people.
2) Religious "self-harm" (such as flagellation) may have been a target of jews, and this may have been an attempt to force good men to halt an entirely valid religious practice.
I think there are actually a *lot* of very basic things in Psychology that need to be revisited. We have a lot of assumptions that we make that seem like they're very obvious, but whose architect is actually some filthy kike.
The typical examples given by right-wing people are things like racism, but if we explore deeper we might be able to find some of these which may not be obvious.
I'd like to bring up "self-harm".
The individual who coined the term "self-harm," and the person who is probably most responsible for the pathologization of self-harm, was a man by the name of Karl Menninger. Although not himself a jew (he was a Presbyterian), he was very clearly a jew-lover. He writes in an essay titled "The Genius of the Jew in Psychiatry":
"Traditionally and historically, spiritual values, that is to say, the importance of certain feelings and abstractions, have always appealed to Jews .... [They] possess the saving grace of turning suffering and resentment and fear into constructive and helpful efforts based on a kind of spiritual discernment with a quantum of scientific detachment, and that this seems to occur relatively more often among Jews than among Gentiles. Would that it occurred oftener among both!"
That an avowed philosemite is the architect of the notion that "self-harm" is bad makes the idea genuinely questionable. I suspect one of the following explanations:
1) "Self-harm" is an easy and effective way to manage intense emotions - it is very grounding - and treating an effective and cheap solution as an illness is a great way for Psychiatrists to force pills upon otherwise healthy people.
2) Religious "self-harm" (such as flagellation) may have been a target of jews, and this may have been an attempt to force good men to halt an entirely valid religious practice.
I think there are actually a *lot* of very basic things in Psychology that need to be revisited. We have a lot of assumptions that we make that seem like they're very obvious, but whose architect is actually some filthy kike.