Blog 3 April 2011 – posted to the Critical Psychiatric Network, and included here for general info.
Hi All
Our psychiatry is now a disaster area. In no other branch of medicine do patients stop taking their medication because they know it’s doing them harm, but feel compelled to pretend to their doctors they haven’t. Profligate use of legally mandated treatment with toxic drugs [CTOs] infringes civil liberties on a scale which would do Soviet Psychiatry proud. Dr Harold Bourne’s gibe that we psychiatrists are floating around clinging to straws is far too close to the bone.
For those interested in my efforts to push forwards, here are three recent items.
1 – I’ve now had my prison work, on eliminating violence from so-called psychopaths accepted by a peer reviewed academic journal – in the press.
2 – We’re running a fascinating training course in Emotion Education which taught me a great deal, see below.
3 – For those with spare time, and a whim to see just how unorthodox a psychiatrist can be, I’ve started Twittering – see http://twitter.com/BobTrustConsent
Thanx
Bob
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SUCCINCT TRAUMAGENESIS
The traumagenic model now centres on the concept of the ‘parentoid’, a mental figment found in adults who were malattached as infants. It’s psychiatric significance is that it perpetuates itself, like any other emotional blind-spot, by becoming too fearsome to be thought about, or thought through. Uniquely among psychiatric treatments, this gives an endpoint that is obvious to all from the outset – viz the restoration of normal healthy rational thought. Thresholds vary, as does symptomatology – but all clear when the parentoid is evicted by means of the Healing Hand of Kindness with Insight. The severity of the pathology determines the time required, which can be anything between ½ an hour to decades. It’s not today’s parent who is at fault, it’s the residue of a parental figment, deeply learned by an insecurely attached infant, which is now out of date, and can, eventually, be shown to be so. A 100% cure is guaranteed to those who finish the course.
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Blog Friday, 1 April 2011
MY REPORT ON THIS WEEK’S TRAINING DAY.
Hi All
Another remarkable training day. In 5 short weeks, we’ve developed ourselves into a powerful apparatus for uncovering what goes wrong with consciousness – quite astonishing.
We have proved that an assorted group of 10 human beings can learn to put aside personal animosities, minimise our various prejudices, and come to trust each other such that we can all see much more clearly quite how miraculous living organisms really all.
What strikes me particularly is that too many of us learn that powerful people are dangerous people. This is inevitable. For every infant, all parents are powerful – if they’re not, then annihilation looms. Not all parents are trained to give the security and reliability all new-borns need – so we acquire distorted views of what power means, and who can wield it, and who can benefit from it. And since power is needed to correct these distortions – we’re in a cleft stick. So Emotion Education really amounts to providing trustworthy and non-threatening support – the Healing Hand of Kindness no less – which allows the sufferer to re-adjust their mental furniture from infant-mode to adult-mode, which is where we are and what we need today.
Just look back – 5 weeks ago one participant trembled when confronted by the video camera – but on learning that trauma is something which persists in the head – but not in reality – this trembling terror evaporated – it’s the rational mind divesting itself of the irrational. Another participant described various ghostly Nazi figures sitting around the kitchen table – now these have been entirely displaced by ‘parentoids’, who, believe it or not, can now be powerfully controlled, and indeed 100% ejected –cure !
This is really what Emotion Education is all about.
Looking forward to the next session – we’ve learned an awful lot is a small space of time.
Again, I’m going to put this up on our web, as a public blog [under the 'training' tab]. It might be of wider interest.
thanx
Bob
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Blog Thursday 24 March 2011- 07:11
MY REPORT ON YESTERDAY’S TRAINING DAY.
I am privileged, and so are you, to be part of a group of human beings exploring the most ineffable item in the entire cosmos – human consciousness !
It takes a while for us to trust each other, to trust that we will not snipe at each other, make snide and cutting remarks, try and get one ahead of each other – but look what happens when we do ! We start working together, building a network that is stronger than any one of us. Really quite spiritual – except in a concrete everyday way. Nothing illusory about this – it’s just real, and we keep it that way, by watching, working, keeping our eye on it, and woweee, there it is. Human beings are sociable – once you lower the emotional barriers, we can all help each other blossom – quite astonishing, and quite fascinating, and quite a privilege to partake in. Oh yesssssss.
The best metaphor I can find is trying to light a fire. At first I have to blow on the dying cinders, make all the running, keep affirming that it will warm us all once it gets going. And it splutters, drafts blow it away, it just grumbles about for a while. But then, when a certain ‘reliable’ point is reached, it takes light, it starts to glow of its own, more heat comes out than energy put in – and there you have humans really relating, really honouring one another, and it’s a quasi-miracle, an every-day miracle which warms us all. You try describing it. The ‘cold’ is the fear – the warmth, a reliable ‘fear-free’ zone – not easy to build, but simple enough in principle and rewarding to all when it glows.
I’m looking forward to next Wednesday, and having one more ‘volunteer’ in the ‘hot seat’ – such a privilege. Please put your minds to how we can continue this ‘gift’ after the course ends – we’re building something here which is almost unique, but which should be available to everyone. Fear and distrust keep polluting, frustrating and preventing what is really a beautifully simple flower, not easy but quite invaluable.
I’m going to put this up on our web, as a public blog [under the 'training' tab]. If you consent to have your blogs put up there too, I’ll do that. We might get more interest generally this way, and then, what we really need, some funding to sustain this process.
thanx
Bob