In the fourth question of his survey, Benjamin asked:
Is psychiatry really a pseudoscience? Is the etiology of schizophrenics/psychotics truly that of parental trauma victims? Are neuroleptics/psychiatric drugs detrimental to health? Do parents cause the vast majority of the DSM-5/ICD behavioural patterns labelled as distinct disorders? Is mental illness environmental in origin? Is the psychiatric genetics position scientifically bankrupt?
Ben and I exchanged a few words in the discussion thread, but he recently added via email:
By the way, on the final (closing) comment by you on ‘Survey’, on Greg Johnson’s inability—even as he proofread it—to take in the information… that’s something I’ve never in my life understood about people. I can see it would really bother you!
They read the extensive full-proof document and they still don’t agree. I can only assume it’s an intelligence lack/dogma thing—some type of faulty methodology that arises from lower IQ. There’s some type of screen in the way, like a cognitive dissonance, and they just can’t process the evidence (the orthodox bias imposed by society is too great; that or the psychological implications in their own lives of taking it seriously, that private life ‘can of worms’ I mentioned before…).
I mean, of all points you’ve discussed with me (usually me, as not many others participate) that concern psychiatry on WDH—of pretty much all topics discussed there—psychiatry criticism is the most comprehensively debunked by now, with a superb level of detailed evidence, all bases covered, and you still get people somehow not grasping it (or not seeing why it’s important).
The reason racialists block topics we should be discussing, but which are a kind of taboo (for example Nordicism, which wasn’t taboo among Anglo-American eugenicists before WW2), is that the human mind is a restrictive container. There are notions, such as saying, “a fraudulent profession (psychiatry) has been taught in medical schools”, that show that the mind of the normie, or neo-normie racialist, is blocked by iron walls: ideas that simply cannot penetrate the membrane of our reason.
We human beings fortify ourselves in our certainties: for example, that what is taught as science in universities is always science. Often, the “insignificance” of reality doesn’t cause us cognitive dissonance (e.g., that psychiatry presents its central tenet, that mental disorder is a biomedical entity, as an irrefutable hypothesis according to Popper’s litmus test for distinguishing between real science and bogus science).
Sight and hearing can annihilate the believer! That’s why the normie closes his eyes and ears to the harrowing testimonies of the trauma suffered by those who endured terrible abuse in their childhood, which led to their mental disorders as adults: a plain refutation of the psychiatric medical model of mental disorders that, lacking biomarkers (unlike neurology, which does study biomarkers), dogmatically blames the brains of those traumatised by their parents: