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Nobody wanted to listen, 9

Ronald Laing and anti-psychiatry

What’s written above leads me to a corollary to my book How to Murder Your Child’s Soul. The universal stubbornness or blindness about the ravages resulting from parental abuse is the cause of the existence of psychiatry. Because parents are taboo, for more than a century the profession has tried to find the source of mental disorders on the wrong side, the body. Parents are not only publicly untouchable: we are not even allowed to see their actions in the solitude of our bedrooms. So, when uncontaminated by social underpinnings, a child dares to say that his parental kings go naked, society completely loses its cool and labels the sane one who has told the truth as crazy. Through the involuntary administration of drugs it assaults the brain not of the disturbed parents, but of the child (analogously, in the former Soviet Union it was the sanest people, the dissidents, who were injected with antipsychotics). This was the tragedy that I tried to denounce in my previous books, and it is perfectly explainable if we start from the fact that the whole society strives to be blind on this matter.

A world that insists on seeing things in photographic negative can only (1) attack the child victim, or (2) ignore the adult in a literary search for his lost time. If such a vision in photonegative didn’t exist, bio-psychiatry wouldn’t exist: our eyes and hearts would make us see the toll that abuse entails. Psychic disturbances would be the province of the psychologist, and it would be seen as nonsense that they would be the province of the physician. It is more than ironic that the greatest critics of psychiatry have contributed, with their blindness, to perpetuate the pseudoscience they try to debunk.

To explain this situation, I would like to mention that in 2005 an American wrote me a letter. After reading ‘Why Psychiatry is a False Science’ published as an appendix to my previous book (the article that Laurence Simon refused to publish), he complained that after so many decades of activism critics of psychiatry hadn’t made a dent in the public conscience. The key to understanding this is that the critics themselves suffer from a blind spot in the centre of their vision: something similar to the black strip that appears on pay-TV channels. If the critics refuse to see what is central, that parental abuse causes neuroses and psychoses, and if it is from this black strip that it is intended to enlighten others, it shouldn’t be surprising that the public conscience hasn’t awakened.

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Interpolated note for this site:

Exactly the same happens to white nationalists, as Mike has told us on this site: ‘Whatever you want to call it, thinking you can aid in saving the white race while, at the same time, bending the knee to Jewish deities (Yahweh and Yeshua) is some kind of combination of insane, dishonest, cowardly, naive, or very stupid. To bottom line it, it won’t and can’t work’.

I used Mike’s words to debunk MacDonald at the end of my Daybreak.

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To clarify this point, I will now refer to those professionals who didn’t suffer from this blind spot. Unlike Szasz and Breggin’s epigones, Lidz, Laing, Arieti and others pointed to parents as responsible for the psychoses in their patients. But even these and many other psychiatrists didn’t sympathise with the victim with the integrity and empathy that Miller and I do. For example, in the Letter I quoted Theodore Lidz:

I also find it very distressing that because the parents’ attitudes and interactions are important determinants of schizophrenic disorders, some therapists and family caseworkers treat parents as villains who have ruined the lives of their patients.

Although I barely caught a glimpse of it when I wrote the Letter, now I clearly see in this sentence the typical fears to speak, without mincing words, of parental guilt. By resisting saying that abusive parents are what they are—the villains in the child’s movie—Lidz advised taking the victim away from his parent. The difference with Miller cannot be greater, who advises keeping the aggressor away from home. What’s the point of moving, say, a pubescent girl raped by her father if the aggressor stays at home, waiting for the next little sister to grow up to molest her too? But sexual abuse isn’t the most common.

At the time of reviewing this chapter, as of mid-2008, twenty-eight nations have prohibited corporal punishment of children. The dates indicate the year the legislation came into force, starting with the country that provided the example: Sweden (1979); Finland (1983); Norway (1987); Austria (1989); Cyprus (1994); Latvia (1998); Croatia (1999); Bulgaria, Israel and Germany (2000); Iceland (2003); Romania and Ukraine (2004); Hungary (2005); Greece (2006), Chile, Holland, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela (2007); Costa Rica, Italy, Japan, Malta and South Africa (2008). In Iceland, a country that illustrates Miller’s advice, the penalties for parents go up to three years in prison or a high fine. Note that these countries have omitted to include psychological and emotional abuse, which can be equally destructive, or even more so, since all bruises are internal (think of the Helfgott case and countless other schizogenic parents). Despite these legislative advances, these societies still cannot see other forms of undermining the emotional integrity of the children. Laing, who did focus on internal injuries, was closer to Miller than Lidz when he came to blatantly blame the maddening parents. But like Szasz, Laing philosophised from an ivory tower: cold and distant reason from the victim and his feelings, as was fashionable in the existential philosophy of his time. Much more reached the real person those who, without any philosophical ballast, addressed the issue of domestic violence: a revolution in psychology that began in the 1970s and 1980s and isn’t yet over. In the first chapter of The Divided Self (1960) entitled ‘The existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons’ Laing wrote:

It seems extraordinary that whereas the physical and biological sciences of it-processes have generally won the day against tendencies to personalize the world of things or to read human intentions into the animal world, an authentic science of persons has hardly got started by reason of the inveterate tendency to depersonalize or reify persons.

Laing refers to mental health professionals in particular and the social sciences in general.

If it is held that to be unbiased one should be ‘objective’ in the sense of depersonalizing the person who is the ‘object’ of our study, any temptation to do this under the impression that one is thereby being scientific must be rigorously resisted. Depersonalization in a theory that is intended to be a theory of persons is as false as schizoid depersonalization of others and is no less ultimately an intentional act. Although conducted in the name of science, such reification yields false ‘knowledge’. It is just as pathetic a fallacy as the false personalization of things.

In philosophising about the autobiographical genre, I came to these conclusions on my own. Animism and bio-reductionism are antithetical psychopathologies, one primitive and tribal and the other sophisticated and urban. And this objectifying people reminds me of the dehumanised language of the analyst Solbein: ‘Those are common clinical experiences’. [Interpolated note for this blog: See also Krist Krusher’s recent comment on this site.] Laing continues:

It is unfortunate that personal and subjective are words so abused as to have no power to convey any genuine act of seeing the other as person (if we mean this we have to revert to ‘objective’), but imply immediately that one is merging one’s own feelings and attitudes into one’s study of the other in such a way as to distort our perception of him. In contrast to the reputable ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’, we have the disreputable ‘subjective’, ‘intuitive’, or, worst of all, ‘mystical’. It is interesting, for example, that one frequently encounters ‘merely’ before subjective, whereas it is almost inconceivable to speak of anyone being ‘merely’ objective.

So far I’m in perfect agreement with Laing. Remember the passage of the two universes, the empirical and the interior; and that the existence of the subjective universe is so real that it is enough to think about our death to verify it [mentioned in the first part of the book]. However, Laing adds:

The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the ‘Underworld’ and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us.

As I pointed out in my previous book, for Jeffrey Masson psychoanalysis was born as a betrayal of women. The Oedipus complex was nothing more than a grotesque attempt to cast guilt on the victims who came to Freud’s office to tell him stories of incest. Analytic theory is the diametrically opposite of wielding the head of the Medusa. If there is such a thing as the antithesis of the hero, that was Sigmund Freud: an ethnic Jew who, although he reached the threshold, was afraid to enter the Underworld and face pure terrors (remember my dreams when commenting on Giorgio de Chirico’s painting). Laing, an idol in my twenties, portrayed Freud in photographic negative and saw the dark as bright. Like many intellectuals of his day, Laing was seduced by the apotheosis of the Vienna quack, something in which Szasz was much more cautious.

When I reread Laing, I did so with a renewed mind after reading Masson, Szasz, and other critics of the psychoanalytic movement. In my rereading of the last chapter of The Divided Self I realised that Julie, one of Laing’s patients, was admitted to a psychiatric ward for almost a decade. If Laing himself hadn’t suffered from the scientific objectivity that he criticises, he would have empathised with Julie denouncing those who locked her up. True, in stark contrast to Szasz and Simon, Laing blamed mothers like Julie’s for their daughter’s psychosis. However, in The Divided Self he never made it clear that the mere fact of locking her up could aggravate her condition. In what I am close to Laing is that when reading his essay one is left under the impression that Julie’s mother, more than psychiatry, ‘murdered a girl’. These are the words of Julie speaking parabolically about herself: she meant that her mother murdered her tender soul. Now, the person Julie, not the object of Laing’s essay, needed to be taken away from the psychiatric hospital and from the mother who committed her; to take her to live far from her ‘murderer’. When she began her psychotic crisis at seventeen years old and said ‘a little girl was murdered’ Julie thought that she should inform the police about the crime.

Her delirium was closer to Miller’s posture than to the psychiatric that locked her up. The laws of a nation should seek to lock up the maddening parent, not the victim (who, in a state of florid psychosis, would have to be cared for in a non-repressive enclosure like the one that Laing presided over). In a just society that doesn’t see reality in the photonegative, this would naturally be done through the police. But in her chapter on Julie, Laing never suggests this. In fact, both the word victim and an exhortation of justice are the great absent in The Divided Self. Also, Laing doesn’t denounce the psychiatric re-victimisation of other women clearly maddened by their family. In another of his famous books, The Politics of Experience, he limits himself to reproaching society for misunderstanding psychoses. Sometimes Laing even seems to participate in the universal fear of touching the parent. Speaking of Julie’s mother, Laing mentions one of the fashionable concepts in the 1950s, the ‘schizophrenogenic mother’ but is quick to add that, fortunately in his opinion, there was no other ‘witch hunt’ in history: an equivocal comparison with women labelled witches centuries ago. If there is one thing the world needs, through the law that Miller outlines, it is to bring to justice every parent who murders children souls. The basic pathology of our society is that this crime, and this crime alone, must remain not only unpunished but invisible. For example, Silvano Arieti, Laing’s colleague across the Atlantic, talked a lot about psychotherapy in Interpretation of Schizophrenia. But he never proposed any social engineering to redress the problem of maddening parents; and he didn’t do so despite the fact that Arieti blames them for the psychotic state of his patients.

‘To my mother and father’ reads the dedication of Laing’s The Divided Self. ‘To my parents’, the dedication of Arieti’s Interpretation of schizophrenia (etymologically, schizophrenia means a divided self). Naturally, the most sophisticated thinkers of insanity also had parents. (In my next book we will hear a class about the problem of attachment with the perpetrator that explains the lukewarmness of Laing, Arieti and others.) Not until the middle of The Divided Self Laing speaks openly about abusive parents. In contrast, Miller and I do it from the first page of our writing, and passionately.

After reading The Divided Self, the best of Laing’s essays, I was convinced that there can be no such thing as a science of subjects. Seen from the outside, the subject inevitably becomes an object: an offense for those who want to speak with their own voice. This is precisely the foundational flaw of academic psychology. If science is the study of the empirical world there can be no such thing as a ‘science of persons’, only people writing about their lives. Although Laing had much more heart than Freud, and this puts him on a higher level to understand the tragedy of the person in crisis, he starts from the same objectivist position. His essays and those of Lidz are, at best, a solidary approach to the disturbed subject. It’s funny that in The Divided Self Laing quotes Sartre: ‘I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the biography of the person’. I would go further. The direct study of a soul in psychotic hell can only come from the pen of someone who, like Modrow, speaks in the first person singular.

10 replies on “Nobody wanted to listen, 9”

People who need vacation from society should go to things similar to aesclepion’s which are like placing out in nature, buildings, with things like massage and spa. And also incubation chambers, where people sleep in hopes of receiving a dream that gives them advice on how to heal.

They had them in ancient Greece, also for parents to have better relations with children, a culture of ancestor veneration would help, this helps parents see themselves as part of a chain of being, that their children are a part of.

As for primitive things, psychiatry is very primitive. Either that or it is a sociopathic money-making machine. I do think people are part of lineages without families, but ancestor veneration is good. I would like East Asian culture much more if they limited the animals they consume.

One of the reasons I often keep talking to myself is because at the moment only I advocate an ideology of ‘the four words’. As the saying goes, if only one individual advocates such an ideology it is madness; two individuals is conspiracy, and three is already a movement.

What psychiatry does with children and adolescents should arouse infinite hatred, as well as woke ideology; what the Chinese do with animals, and the ongoing western project to exterminate the white race. But nobody except me hates to the degree of wanting to take the 4 words (and the 14 words) to a complete restructuring of the planet (for example, my only sentiment towards the Chinese, and other non-Aryan races, is one of extermination). No other. So you and I are living in an altogether different axiological constellation.

An isolated chapter like the anti-psychiatric one that I will soon finish translating from my eleven books says little, precisely because it is isolated. Without context, the core of my philosophy is lost.

When the dollar crashes, will I dare to translate, step by step, the rest of my books for this site? Perhaps not: without reading them in succession, what I say is lost for lack of the narrative thread.

One might want to exterminate all non-Whites without having thought of the four words. Did Darwin care about children? And yet, he prophecised the supremacy of the Aryan. It’s as if the only real obstacle is Christianity. Destroy Christian axiology, and the rest goes with it.

Conversely, even those who superficially seem to care about children and non-human animals cannot commit to outright apostasy, cannot embrace hatred. As if murdering Jewsus is exactly sufficient to survive. Whites need to kill their love for foreigners. Embrace comic-book racism. It’s that simple.

‘But kill your love for foreigners and all these things shall be added unto you’, says my gospel.

Incidentally I always have in mind both the 14 and the 4 words: esthetics (e.g., Botticelli’s nymph on sidebar) and ethics (e.g., the Chinese torturing animals) as the rationale for exterminationism.

@antinatalist44
On “Comic-book racism”.

I was at the library yesterday, and saw at another table two college students: a white girl and a chinese nerd. He was an exchange student; She was smiling as they talked. He was teaching her some chink words, and she was clumsily repeating them.

I have no hate towards the chink. He was just a yellow faggot occupying European territory – like millions of other chinks do.
He was trying to score some white pussy while going up in the world – like every subhuman ape instinctively yearns to.
And, in a true Aryan society, he would have been summarily executed, just like every other subhuman ape should be.

But I hated the white whore. At that moment, I wanted to murder the bitch. Drag her naked into the public square and hang her on a street light. I felt so much hatred, I had to pack my laptop and move to another table.

A normie would think it was jealousy that boiled my blood, since I’m single. But I don’t feel this burning hate when I see pretty girls with white guys.

I feel more hatred towards the white traitor than to the nigger, the gook, the street-shitter, or even the fucking kikes.

Racism is useless without this ability to swing the pendulum to the other extreme: in one moment, a White girl is beautiful, and worth killing for. The next moment, she’s kissing a non-white, and now she’s worth less than shit – she’s worse than the enemy.
I never saw any racism like that in any comic books.
Only in Pierce’s novels.

“Kill thy love for foreigners” indeed.

@Patrick
East Asian Culture can go fuck itself. Drop a thousand nuclear bombs on it. That’s how you make it more likeable.

> ‘I feel more hatred towards the white traitor than to the nigger, the gook, the street-shitter, or even the fucking kikes’.

Ditto! By the way, young pretty women cannot be killed even in the day of the rope. Abduct and rape the Sabine woman if you like, but we’ll need her womb to create another Aryan soldier like you.

A sexual object cannot be hated. Raped into submission, yes: but not killed. In the case of traitor white males it’s another matter.

See, Mauricio, you are thinking like a feminist, by giving agency to women. To me, it helps viewing people as less animate and more as objects. The Asian is just a foreign boy. And C.T. is correct, the girl is a sexual object. I’m not even sure whether women ever had a need to evolve in-group preference (if anything, they were forced to evolve out-group love just in case their male relatives are exterminated)…

In fact, a loyal female is an abomination, a sexual male power fantasy. A female is naturally only attracted to power. See Radegund – her perverse loyalty to her murdered family led her to the path of Christianity. See Kriemhild who allied with Attila the Hun for the sake of her murdered husband. Is that strong meat?

Whom I refuse to make inanimate, to absolve of the crime, is the Aryan male. How is it possible that the heir to the riches of Europa, to Faraday and Chopin, is now in a comatose slumber? C.T. is blaming parental introjects (see the woman from the Canaries who hated her race), but neither before nor outside Christianity, history has not known such a clear case of collective suicide. Of willful rejection of power.

The Interregnum started not in 1945. It began in 313. For 1700 years, the Christian Aryans have been exterminating those men who remained loyal to their race. Such a vicious spirit of competition, all to win the Darwin award from the hands of the Jew!

> ‘see the woman from the Canaries who hated her race’

I guess you refer to ‘A body-snatched Spaniard’ that now is a private series in my Exlibris page. I don’t remember why I demoted the status of that series to ‘private’. Perhaps I’ll read it again and see if I change it as public again.

@Antinatalist

Well, I did have a neurotic manipulative mother.
She laid a heavy feminist brick in my head as I slowly matured.

Maybe one day I’ll learn to be psychopathic enough to view women as flesh machines. I’ll keep reminding myself that it’s her boomer parents’ (and millenial kinsmen) fault that she’s missing race-loyalist software.

But the hate I feel when I witness racial treason will never go away.

@Antinatalist,

I have now read my old series of 14 entries and now remember that I felt it contains a couple of slightly embarrassing anecdotes of my stay in Spain and that’s why it was ‘private’. But I have promoted to ‘public’ once again both the original and the translation.

I wrote it in 2009. After my reread it impressed me that back then, when I lived in Spain, I still admired the United States more than Europe and that I was not so anti-Christian…!

@ Mauricio,

The way I see things is, once the rule of law collapses, it will be very easy to kill the non-white on spot in front of his white wife, and immediately after that kidnap her if she’s young & pretty. The point is that even with the blood of her non-white partner sprinkled on her dress, and adding that the traumatic abduction of this Sabine brat, your hatred is transferred into something far more constructive: procreating.

That will be an easy way to get a spouse providing that, as in ancient Rome, you still have the right to kill the brat if she misbehaves.

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