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So, 60% or more of the young people who experience "psychosis" would have recovered from emotional breakdowns without medication. Yet, our standard treatment for what is called "schizophrenia" locks almost everyone who enters the mental health system into lifelong treatment with lucrative drugs that
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because they are unconstitutional (which due to the use of bogus science to deprive individuals of their liberty, they are). Rather, these laws will be repealed when the staggering cost of incarcerating a small but significant part of the male population becomes overwhelming. (The current estimates
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I have a particular interest in the overlap between religion and intergroup violence (war, genocide, etc.). My theory is that humans evolved into religious, meme system group identifying animals specifically because of the adaptive advantage provided for effective violence in intergroup conflicts.
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number of men who cross the legal line sexually. Politicians trying to outdo each other by claiming to be protecting us from "sexual predators," now have more and more states locking up as many sex offenders as they can for indefinite commitments. These commitments average 20 years or more (!) and
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so that politicians can each claim to be doing more than their opponents to protect you from sex offenders. In
Massachusetts, these commitments are based on the testimony of "experts" who have no expertise whatsoever (often little or no experience prior to being recruited to evaluate and testify
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will destroy most of their lives. At least for those 60% or so who would have recovered without medication and whose lives are, at best, slowly (but eventually, massively) diminished by these toxins, "treatment" based on this mindset is … murder. For profit. (What else would you call it?)
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The thesis is deceptively simple: Those strongly identified groups held together by religious and pseudo-religious "false-kin ideologies" were more effective at killing off outsiders (and stealing their possessions/land) and preventing other groups from doing the same to them.
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that I started in 2003 as a "young" Wikipedian, i.e., before I knew that it was considered inappropriate to write about yourself :-) A more commercially oriented self description (originally developed to promote my private practice), can be found
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The major problem is that it leaves our world in the control of those deluded folk who actively harness religious or pseudo-religious ideologies in the pursuit of power. It is in response to this problem that I joined together with others to form
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In a completely separate area of clinical work, I believe in the treatment of "psychotic conditions" by good social support and psychotherapy, not by drugs (though drugs can be useful in a crisis for short periods and
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That is, AFTER serving the sentences that a court considered appropriate for ("punishment that fit") the crime—even though in the vast majority of cases we cannot predict the future (a la
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