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Psychiatry Undermines Religion
Harming Society
Certain influences and events have shaped the course of religious and moral decline the world over. The materialistic practices of psychiatry, psychology and other related mental health disciplines are at the root of the problem.
German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt unveiled “experimental” psychology to his students at Leipzig University in 1879. Wundt declared that the soul was a “waste of energy” and that man was simply another animal.
In 1940 psychiatry openly declared its plans when British psychiatrist John Rawling Rees, a co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), addressed a National Council of Mental Hygiene stating “[S]ince the last world war we have done much to infiltrate the various social organizations throughout the country…we have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church….”
The word psychology derives from psyche (soul) and ology (study of); the subject originated as a religious and philosophical study. However, as Franz G. Alexander, M.D., and Sheldon T. Selesnick, M.D. noted in The History of Psychiatry, “As long as psychiatric problems were those of the ‘soul,'” only the clergy and philosophers “could be professionally concerned with such problems.”
Psychiatry, re-defining man’s travails in “medical” or “biological” terms, wrenched spiritual healing away from religion.
By 1952, 83% of more than 100 U.S. seminaries and graduate theological schools surveyed had one or more courses on psychology.
In 1961, around 9,000 clergymen had studied psychology-based “clinical pastoral” counseling courses. Psychiatrists outnumbered the clergy in membership six to five in the U.S. Academy of Religion and Mental Health.
The American Association of Christian Counselors has grown from 700 mental health professionals as members in 1991 to 50,000 today.
Psychiatrists and psychologists still claim that man is an animal to be conditioned and controlled. Governments have been convinced of this idea and are paying billions in public funds to psychiatry, despite no evidence of its efficacy.
DESECRATING HOLY GROUND
The following contemptible efforts to label the founder of the Christian faith as a lunatic, and thereby to condemn all of Christianity as mere neurosis and illusion, are provided, not to be blasphemous, but to show psychiatry’s anti-religious agenda.
“In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia.” – Charles Binet-Sanglé, La Folie de Jésus (The Madness of Jesus), 1910.
“Everything that we know about him conforms so perfectly to the clinical picture of paranoia that it is hardly conceivable that people can even question the accuracy of the diagnosis.”– American psychiatrist William Hirsch, Conclusions of a Psychiatrist, 1912 “One may disagree with Schweitzer….He takes for granted that the failure of Jesus to develop ideas of injury and persecution rules out the possibility of a paranoid psychosis.
This is not necessarily true; some paranoids manifest ideas of grandeur almost entirely….” – Psychiatrist Winfred Overholser, President of the American Psychiatric Association, stated in the foreword to Albert Schweitzer’s The Psychiatric Study of Jesus, 1948.
PEDOPHILE PSYCHIATRISTS
In a 1951 article in the New Yorker, Francis J. Braceland, psychiatrist-in-chief of the Institute of Living psychiatric facility in Connecticut, U.S.A., called on Catholic bishops to shed their “traditional antipathy to the teachings of psychiatry and to seek medical help for troubled priests.” With Braceland’s high standing among the bishops, the Institute of Living began receiving referrals.
As journalist Barry Werth wrote, “The Church’s use of psychiatry, or more precisely, the bishops’ policy of sending priests suspected of having molested minors to psychiatrists and psychologists rather than reporting them to the police, has become one of the most disturbing, and costly, elements….”
A study conducted by Kenneth Pope, former head of the ethics committee for the American Psychological Association, found that 1 out of 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their psychotherapist was a minor. The female victims’ ages ranged from 3 to 17, and it was from 7 to 16 for the males.
PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC FRAUD
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the mental disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)—the mental health industry’s diagnostic “system”—have long been under attack for their lack of scientific authority and veracity and their almost singular emphasis on psychotropic drug treatment.
The latest editions of DSM and ICD include religious travail as a new category of mental illness: “V.62.89” (the diagnostic code used for billing purposes) covers treatment for “religious or spiritual problems.”
Religion has turned to psychiatry and psychology at their own peril. Lisa Bazler, a former psychologist and now Christian author of Psychology Debunked, wrote: “[W]e cannot consider psychology…a scientific discipline…the therapist and psychiatrist [can] not objectively measure and analyze the causes and cures of anxiety with statistical repeatability as a doctor and patient could measure and analyze the causes and cures of a broken ankle.”
Clinical psychologist Ty Colbert, author of Rape of the Soul, 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.”
Lisa Bazler states further: “Consider the fact that psychology didn’t even exist until the 1800s. How did Christians possibly live for eighteen hundred years without psychology? They lived just fine. Do we know more about living the Christian life to the fullest than Paul, John or Peter? Obviously not, but Christian therapists think they do.…Christian therapists preach a false gospel that contradicts Scripture and follows the opinions of men who hated religion and subtracted God out of all of their theories of human behavior.”
Studies show that youths who are involved in religious activities are less likely to abuse drugs. Among youths who agreed that religious beliefs are a very important part of their life (78.2%), 9.2% had used an illicit drug compared to 20.5% of those youths who strongly disagreed with religion.
SUMMARY
As a result of psychiatrists’ subversive plan for religion, the concepts of good and bad behavior, right and wrong conduct and personal responsibility have taken such a beating that people today have few or no guidelines for checking, judging or directing their behavior. Words like ethics, morals, sin and evil have almost disappeared from everyday usage.
For more than a century, mankind has been the unwitting guinea pig of psychiatry’s deliberate, “social engineering” experiment that was conceived in hell. This experiment included an assault on the essential religious and moral strongholds of society. It could not proceed while man could clearly conceive of, express, and deal with evil. It lies insidiously behind our current social disintegration. And it is the epitome of evil, masked by the most social of outward appearances.
Religion provides the inspiration needed for a life of higher meaning and purpose. As we face psychiatry’s influence on society, it falls upon religious leaders to take decisive steps. Men of the cloth need to shake off the yoke of soulless materialism spawned by psychology and psychiatry and put religion back into the hands of the religious. They must take this responsibility, not only for the sake of religion’s survival, but also for the survival of mankind.
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