Friday, 14 November 2008

Psychiatry, The Freemasons, The Jesuits, The New World Order & The Illuminati


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Thursday, 13 November 2008

Mental Health & The Law

Please note this article relates only to English and Welsh law.

Find a solicitor using the Law Society tool ...

Wales http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/choosingandusing/findasolicitor/action=lawfirmsearch.law?startrow=1&COUNTRY=WALES&AREA=P:Mental

A list of the sections of the mental health act by section number and description can be found at http://www.hyperguide.co.uk/mha/contents.htm. This site gives a brief run through of what the mental health act implies.

In brief ...

Section 1 Scope of the Act, and Definitions.Section 2 Admission to Hospital for Assessment.Section 3 Admission to Hospital for Treatment.Section 4 Emergency Admission to Hospital.Section 5 Holding Power which can be exercised by a Doctor [Section 5(2)] or Nurse [Section 5(4)].Section 7 Admission to Guardianship.Section 8 Effect of Guardianship.Section 12 Approved Doctors and Medical Recommendations.Section 17 Planned / Authorised Leave.Section 18 Unauthorised Absence, and Returning.Section 19 Transfers between Hospitals and/or Guardianship.Section 20 Renewal of a Period of Detention in Hospital.Section 21 Returning from Unauthorised Absence.Section 23 Discharge from Detention or Guardianship.Section 25 Restriction of Nearest Relative's Power to Discharge.Section 26 Definition of Nearest Relative.Section 29 Appointment of Acting Nearest Relative by a Court.Section 34 Definition of Responsible Medical Officer.Section 35 Remand by a Court, for Reports.Section 36 Remand by a Court, for Treatment.Section 37 Hospital (or Guardianship) Order made by a Court.Section 38 Interim Hospital Order made by a Court.Section 41 Restriction Orders.Section 42 Conditional Discharge of people subject to Restriction Orders, by the Home Office.Section 47. Transfer of Prisoners to Hospital for Treatment.Section 48. Transfer of People in Prison on Remand, to Hospital for Treatment.Section 49. Restriction on Discharge, following Transfer from Prison to Hospital.Section 56 Scope of Consent to Treatment Provisions.Section 57 Treatment requiring Consent and a Second Opinion.Section 58 Treatment requiring Consent or a Second Opinion.Section 61 Review of Treatment.Section 62 Urgent Treatment.Section 63 Treatment for Mental Disorder which is not covered by Sections 57 and 58.Section 66 Applications to the Mental Health Review Tribunal: General.Section 69 Applications to the Mental Health Review Tribunal: Where a Hospital Order or Guardianship Order is in Place.Section 72 The Mental Health Review Tribunal's Powers and Duties to Discharge.Section 73 The Mental Health Review Tribunal and Restricted Patients.Section 73 Conditional Discharge of people subject to Restriction Orders, by the Mental Health Review Tribunal.Section 74 The Mental Health Review Tribunal's Powers in relation to people subject to Restriction Directions.Section 75 Appeals to the Mental Health Review Tribunal by Conditionally Discharged Patients.Sections 93 to 113 The Management of the Financial Affairs of People with a Mental Disorder.Section 114 Appointment of Approved Social Workers.Section 117 Aftercare Arrangements.Section 118 Requirement that the Secretary of State publishes a Code of Practice.Section 121 Mental Health Act Commission's Duty to consider Appeals against the Withholding of CorrespondenceSection 134 Withholding of Correspondence.Section 135 Power to enter Premises and take someone to a Place of Safety.Section 136 Removal of People from Public Places by the Police.

A detailed guide to the Mental Health Act can be found at http://www.wikimentalhealth.co.uk/Mental_Health_Act_2007_Overview
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Anti-Psychiatry Books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=anti-psychiatry&x=15&y=24 is a UK Amazon search on the term "anti-psychiatry" by relevance.

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http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=anti-psychiatry

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Below is a list of cognitive libery books

“The Mask of Sanity” by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.
Describing the clinical interviews of Cleckley with adult-male incarcerated psychopaths. It is considered a seminal work and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the 20th century. The basic elements of psychopathy outlined by Cleckley are still relevant today. The title refers to the normal "mask" that conceals the mental disorder of the psychopathic person in Cleckley's conceptualization
ISBN-10: 0452253411
ISBN-13: 978-0452253414
http://www.amazon.co.uk/mask-sanity-Plume-book/dp/0452253411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226595391&sr=8-1

“Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: Revolt Against the Mental Health System” by Seth Farber
This book, in the tradition of Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, and Erving Goffman, is a challenge to the belief-system of psychiatry and to the brutal and disrespectful treatment frequently given to the "mentally ill". The author, a qualified psychologist and psychotherapist and a prominent activist in the fight for mental patients' rights, presents a cogent critique of the medical model as applied to individuals undergoing spiritual or emotional crises. The core of the book consists of seven case histories or "true stories", depicting the impact of the mental health system on very different individuals, who all suffered psychiatric abuse before winning their own struggle for self-determination. These stories are shocking, poignant, alarming, sometimes disgusting, yet ultimately heartening. They expose the "crime against humanity" that is organised coercive psychiatry in the United States today, but they also show that it is sometimes possible to break free from psychiatric oppression and make something worthwhile out of one's own life.
ISBN-10: 0812692004
ISBN-13: 978-0812692006
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madness-Heresy-Rumor-Angels-Against/dp/0812692004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226596658&sr=1-1

“Madness and Civilization” by Michel Foucault
An examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. It is the abridged English edition of Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, originally published in 1961 under the title Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique. A full translation titled The History of Madness was published by Routledge in June 2006.[1] This was Foucault's first major book, written while he was the Director of the Maison de France in Sweden.
ISBN-10: 067972110X
ISBN-13: 978-0679721109
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Madness-Civilization-M-Foucault/dp/067972110X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226597250&sr=1-1

“The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness” by R. Laing
This book constitutes the definitive attempt to provide an existential account of madness. The traditional approach to understanding madness sees it as a clinical entity, largely divorced from any relevance to the personal or social aspects of the suffering person's life. This book is probably the most intelligent and in depth attack on such a position. Laing argues that madness is not due to chemical imbalances in the brain or any organic disease, and any attempt to understand madness as a pathological process is doomed to failure because it inevitably treats the patient as an object. The book is a logically developed and sustained argument that madness can only be comprehended as the desperate attempts of the individual to integrate their own fragmenting psychological structure.
ISBN-10: 0140135375
ISBN-13: 978-0140135374
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Self-Existential-Madness-psychology/dp/0140135375/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226597907&sr=1-1

“Psychiatric Slavery” by Thomas Szasz
Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policymakers today is adult dependency. Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go legally unpunished for the crimes they commit, and are supported by the state - not because they are sick, but because they are unproductive and unwanted. Obsessed with the twin beliefs that misbehaviour is a medical disorder and that the duty of the state is to protect adults from themselves, we have replaced criminal-punitive sentences with civil-therapeutic programmes. The result is the relentless loss of individual liberty and erosion of personal responsibility - symptoms of the transformation of a Constitutional Republic into a Therapeutic State, unconstrained by the rule of law.
ISBN-10: 0815605110
ISBN-13: 978-0815605119
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychiatric-Slavery-Thomas-Szasz/dp/0815605110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226598272&sr=1-1

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I Need Help

Please find detailed below some of the UK's top sources of help for those with a mental health concern, debts, family problems etc.

The list is compiled into the following sections: -

Anxiety
Autistic
Counselling Services
Depression
Disorders
Eating Disorders
Grieving, Loss & Bereavement
Learning Difficulties
Mental Health
Schizophrenia
Suicide

Anxiety

National Phobics Society
Site promoting organisation formed by a sufferer of agoraphobia for those affected by anxiety disorders. Contains detailed information about a range of phobias.

Obsessive Action
Organisation for individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Includes information on treatment, as well as links to various online resources.

Triumph Over Phobia
Charity which aims to help sufferers of phobia or obsessive compulsive disorder to become ex-sufferers. Features a discussion board and general information.


Autistic


About Autism
A parents' perspective on autism. Includes their experiences with a daughter diganosed as autistic, and information on education, immunisation, diet, behaviour, and homeopathy

Aromatherapy and Autism
A review of the effects of touch and fragrance in providing opportunities for interaction and communication. Includes information about the selection of essential oils, procedure and outcomes.

Autism
Autism links, definitions and signs of autism, book reviews.

Autism and Computing
A collection of articles exploring the implications of a dynamic model of mind for aspects of the autistic condition. Includes suggestions of helpful approaches.

Autism and the Motor Theory of Language
Extended article examining deficiencies in speech development in light of different ideas about the origin and functioning of language. Includes suggestions for treatment.

Autism: A Context-Based Retardation?
Theoretical discussion of the implications of information processes modeled by latent semantic analysis for aetiological understandings of autism. Explores symptom profiles and suggests possible experimental research.

Autism: Nutritional Supplements, Exclusion Diets and Antacids
Research report of a study into the process of improvement in children following programmes of dietary manipulation. Includes discussion of the clinical implications and quality of proof.

Autistic Spectrum Disorder Parents Pages UK
A parental account offering guidance and support for families. Includes a forum, diagnostic and anecdotal information, and links to other resources.

Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Article from the British Medical Journal examining studies into the prevalence of autism. Includes references to works cited.

Awares
A directory of information resources, both online and offline, in Wales and worldwide: includes news, details of seminars. (Cymraeg and English)

BBC Health: Autism
A guide to the condition with information about associated problems, genetic factors and treatment.

BUPA: Autism & Asperger's
Information factsheet providing guidance to disorder treatments and symptoms. Available to download in PDF format.

CBeebies: Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Articles by early years experts on how to help children with autistic spectrum disorders fulfil their potential. Offers advice on coping, education and ICT and includes an online game.

Educational Psychologist: Autism Checklist
Lists the core behaviours associated with the condition and offers the ability to locate and contact chartered educational psychologists in the UK for further advice.

ISEC 2000: Outcomes of Three Educational Interventions
Report of a comparative study exploring the extent to which different school-based educational programmes address specific needs. Includes a table of methods and approaches used with suggestions for future research.

Public Awareness Autism
An information site by parents of a child diagnosed with autism. Includes information and news on autism and related disorders, with advice and guidance on education, interventions, benefit entitlements, and a section of parents' stories.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists: Factsheet 12
Provides details about the causes and effects of the condition and offers practical advice on obtaining help.


Councelling Services


Please refer http://www.charitiesdirectory.com/category.php?n=80&page=1&sort=&direction

Depression


Aware Defeat Depression
Includes information about support groups and the symptoms of depression, plus publications and a discussion forum. Based in Northern Ireland.

Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic
Brief therapy for clinical as well as ante and post natal depression. Includes information about the causes of depression.

DEPEND
Depression Support Network with articles and contact information.

Depression Alliance
Information and support for people with depression.

Depression Alliance Chelmsford
Provides information about local meetings.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Association
Support organisation. Information and membership details.

STAND
An information service promoting better understanding of mental health problems including stress, anxiety and depression.

The Glass Belljar
A self-help guide for sufferers of depression by former sufferers.

TMS Treatment for Depression
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a new method for treating mood disorders.


Disorders


Hyperactive Children's Support Group
Charity offering help and support to hyperactive children and their families.

Project Spear
A charity whose goal is to relieve the illness of self-injurers and those suffering from stress related illnesses. Information on the disorder, testimonials, and how to help.

RAD-UK
creating a database of children and adults with reactive attachment disorder.


Eating Disorder


Eating Disorders Association
National charity. Information about anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Telephone helpline available.

Riverdale Grange Clinic
Information about centre in Sheffield specialising in the treatment of eating disorders.

Somerset And Wessex Eating Disorders Association
Eating disorders support in somerset


Grief, Loss and Bereavement


Ayrshire Sands
Provides support for bereaved parents and their families when their baby dies before, during or soon after birth.

Cruse Bereavement Care
Support, counselling, education, advice and information to bereaved people.

Grief Recovery Online
GROWW is a non profit grief community which includes myriad resources, message boards and secure chat rooms for anyone who has lost (or is losing) a love one to death.

Manchester Area Bereavement Forum
MABF is a resource and training unit.

PEAL. (Parents Experiencing Adult Loss)
A confidential bereavement service helping parents and adult siblings grieving the death of a child aged 16 or over. Offer personal support and group meetings. Contact details.

SANDS: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society
UK charity providing support for bereaved parents and their families.

The Child Bereavement Trust
Offers training and support to the professional care giver and provides information and resources for families and professionals.

The Compassionate Friends (UK)
Support and friendship for bereaved parents and their families.



Learning Difficulties


Acton Saturday Venture Club
Charity in Ealing which provides leisure activities and support for young people with learning disabilities and their families. Background, activities and contact information.

ARC
Umbrella group offering information and advice to organisations who provide for people with a learning disability. Services, training, projects, publications and contributions to national standards and debates.

Birmingham Adult Dyslexia Group
Information about the group and its support activities, with substantial information about the condition and related disorders.

British Institute of Learning Disabilities.
Committed to improving the lifestyles of people with learning disabilities.

Carrickfergus Mencap Society
Charity which campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with a learning disability and offers a variety of services to them, their families and their carers. Includes news, activities and contacts.

Change
National organisation run by disabled people and fighting for the rights of learning disabled people, especially those deaf and blind. News, publications and links.

Collaborative Group for Learning Disability Research
Provides a forum for researchers in North West England to exchange ideas and findings about learning disability research. Offers a newsletter, a digest of completed research projects, information about conferences and events, and reports.

Connects
Mental health and learning disabilities portal. A worldwide, interactive, personalised forum for the sharing of information by people whose lives are touched by mental health problems and/or learning disabilities. (Requires free registration.)

Havant Mencap
Registered charity helping people with learning disabilities in the local community. Hampshire.

Mencap
Campaigns for equal rights for people with learning disabilities and provides services to them, their families and care givers. Contains details of current campaigns and fundraising efforts as well as advice sections and members area.

Mencap West Lancs
Reports, news and a database project which records the needs, problems and aspirations of people with learning disabilities in the area.

Mencap West Sussex
Helping the 18,000 residents in the area with a learning disability. Campaigns, local groups, newsroom and links.

Northallerton and the Dales Mencap Society
Mencap Society holding the interests of people with learning disabilities and their carers in the Hambleton and Richmondshire Districts of North Yorkshire. Includes useful links database.

Prospects
Christian voluntary organisation which values and supports people with learning disabilities so that they live their lives to the full.

Redbridge Mencap
Promoting the care, treatment and education of mentally handcapped children and adults. Includes information about the organisation and their work, newsletters, photographs, fundraising details and a list of events. London.

Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
A partnership of 13 organisations offering advice, consultancy and awareness raising. Information on their campaigns, research, membership, publications and contact details.

Thanet Mencap Society
Provides information about social events and outings, the day centre, work opportunities projects, residences, shop and tea rooms, plus sports, leisure and Special Olympic groups.

Tonbridge & District Mencap Society - Home Page
Introduction, services and information on various clubs, the helpline, holidays and funding.

Waltham Forest Mencap
Background, local projects, services, volunteering and contacts.

Warrington Mencap
Charity group providing help and support for people with a learning disability and for their families. Offers recreational activities, clubs, holiday trips, as well as supported and independent living programs.

West Berkshire Mencap
Fundraising and campaigning group with services to help those with a learning disability or mental handicap, their families and carers. Details of support groups, clubs, library and toy library.

Worthing Mencap
Championing the rights of mentally handicapped people and their families and directly improving the facilities and opportunities available to them. Achievements and news.
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Scientology And Antipsychiatry

The Church of Scientology is one of a number of groups involved in the anti-psychiatry movement, and one of the few organizations that publicly oppose the study and application of psychology in addition to psychiatry, claiming that psychiatry was responsible for World War I, the rise of Hitler and Stalin, the decline in education standards in the United States, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the September 11 attacks. The Church's point of view on these issues is documented mainly by Church groups and magazines such as those published by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Freedom Magazine.

Actor Tom Cruise, a well-known Scientologist, has publicity criticized the psychiatric field. In response to Cruise's statements, an editor from the Journal of Clinical Investigation stated that Cruise is "dangerous and irresponsible."


(the above excerpt is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology)


Anti-psychiatry refers to a post-1960s configuration of groups and theoretical constructs hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz.

The word "psychiatry" was invented by Johann Christian Reil in 1808. Two central contentions of the anti-psychiatry movement are that:

1.The specific definitions of, or criteria for, hundreds of current psychiatric diagnoses or disorders are vague and arbitrary, leaving too much room for opinions and interpretations to meet basic scientific standards.
2.Current psychiatric treatments are ultimately far more damaging than helpful to patients.
Other common criticisms include: that psychiatry applies medical concepts and tools inappropriately to the mind and society; that it too often treats patients against their will; that it inappropriately excludes other approaches to mental distress/disorder; that its medical and ethical integrity is compromised by financial and professional links with pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies; that psychiatry uses a system of categorical diagnoses (e.g., Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM) which is scientifically or clinically ill-founded, and which stigmatizes patients; further: that its attitude to patients is too often experienced as simply demeaning and controlling.

Individual mental health professionals as well as academics profess anti-psychiatry views, as do a certain proportion of current or former users of psychiatric services. Some critics focus on the now prevalent form of biological psychiatry. Despite the movement's name, however, it is alleged that in reality some tendencies merely promote a form of psychiatry that happens to be contrary to the dominant theories and methods of the day. Some "anti-psychiatrists," indeed, are concerned to dissociate themselves from the term and its sometimes pejorative associations.


(the above excerpt is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry)


Information
The New England Journal of Skepticism - Skepticism and Denial
The Antipsychiatry Coalition
International Center for Humane Psychiatry and Dan L. Edmunds,Ed.D.
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse

Articles
Oikos.org - The Dark Side of Psychiatry
PLoS Medicine - Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, by John P. A. Ioannidis. Vol. 2, No. 8, DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124.Last accessed 16 June 2006
PLoS Medicine - Medical Journals Are an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies, by Richard Smith, Vol.2, No.5, e138 DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138. Last accessed 16 June 2006
British Medical Journal - Commercial influence and the content of medical journals, by Joel Lexchin, associate professor, Donald W Light, professor, BMJ 2006;332:1444-1447 (17 June),doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7555.1444; Last accessed 16 June 2006
PLoS Medicine - The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder, by David Healy, Vol.3, No.4, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185; Last accessed 16 June 2006

Organizations critical of psychiatry
LaingSociety.org - The Society for Laingian Studies, R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
Mosher Soteria - Loren Mosher, MD, (1933-2004)
Szasz.com - The Thomas S. Szasz, MD, Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
ICSPP.org - International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
MindFreedom.org - Support Coalition International (a coalition of groups supporting "United Action for Human Rights in Mental Health")
PsychRights.org - Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
IAAPA International Association Against Psychiatric Assault
PSAT Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
TanaDineen.com Homepage of Tana Dineen
Anti-Psychiatry Livejournal - Anti-Psychiatry Community on Livejournal, Most Updated Resource.


See also
Bruce Levine
History of mental disorders
Indeterminacy in philosophy
Institutionalisation
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Laura's Law
Medicalization
The Gene Illusion
Rosenhan experiment
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Psychiatrist Jokes

Some humour ...

A guy goes in to see a psychologist. He says, "It seems I can't make any friends. Can you help me, you fat slob?"

Neurotics build castles in the sky.
Psychotics live in them.
Psychiatrists collect the rent.

A psychotic thinks that two and two are five.
A neurotic knows two and two are four -- but he hates it.

Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.
If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.
If you are delusional and occasionally hallucinate, please be aware that the thing you are holding on the side of your head is alive and about to bite off your ear.

A man goes to a Psychologist and says, "Doc I got a real problem, I can't stop thinking about sex."
The Psychologist says, "Well let's see what we can find out", and pulls out his ink blots. "What is this a picture of?" he asks.
The man turns the picture upside down then turns it around and states, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."
The Psychologist says, "very interesting," and shows the next picture. "And what is this a picture of?"
The man looks and turns it in different directions and says, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."
The Psychologists tries again with the third ink blot, and asks the same question, "What is this a picture of?"
The patient again turns it in all directions and replies, "That's a man and a woman on a bed making love."
The Psychologist states, "Well, yes, you do seem to be obsessed with sex."
"Me!?" demands the patient. "You're the one who keeps showing me the dirty pictures!"

A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children. "You all have obsessions," he observed.
To the first mother he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You even named your daughter Candy."
He turned to the second mom. "Your obsession is money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
He turned to the third mom. "Your obsession is alcohol and your child's name is Brandy."
At this point, the fourth mother got up, took her little boy by the hand and whispered, "Come on, Dick, let's go home."

A very shy guy goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks, tentatively, "Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?"
She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, "NO! I won't sleep with you tonight!" Everyone in the bar is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed and he slinks back to his table.
After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you. You see, I'm a graduate student in psychology, and I'm studying how people respond to embarrassing situations."
To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, "What do you mean $200?!"
What happens when a psychiatrist and a hooker spend the night together? In the morning each of them says: "120 dollars, please."

A young woman took her troubles to a psychiatrist. "Doctor, you must help me," she pleaded. "It's gotten so that every time I date a nice guy, I end up in bed with him. And then afterward, I feel guilty and depressed for a week."
"I see," nodded the psychiatrist. "And you, no doubt, want me to strengthen your will power and resolve in this matter."
"For God's sake, NO!" exclaimed the woman. "I want you to fix it so I won't feel guilty and depressed afterward."

A psychologist is at a party talking with a small group of people, when a man comes up behind him and taps him on the shoulder. The psychologist turns around and the man hauls off and decks him. The psychologist gets up, brushes himself off, turns to the group and declares: "That's his problem."

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?"
"Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techiniques - visualization, association - it made a huge difference for me."
"That's great! What was the name of the clinic?"
Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that red flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife. . ."Rose, what was the name of that clinic?"

What is the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist?
If you say to a psychiatrist "I hate my mother," he will ask "Why do you say that?" while a psychologist will say "Thank you for sharing that with us."

What's the difference between a psychologist and a magician?
A psychologist pulls habits out of rats!

Once I had multiple personalities, but now we are feeling well.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute.

I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.

The best thing about being schizophrenic is that I'm never alone.

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you!

Hypochondria is the only illness that I don't have.

I've always been a hypochondriac. As a little boy, I'd eat my M&M's one by one with a glass of water.

Psychiatrist to his nurse: "Just say we're very busy. Don't keep saying 'It's a madhouse.'"

Why is psychoanalysis a lot quicker for a man then for a women?
Because when it's time to go back to childhood, a man is already there.

A psychologist returned from a confrence in Aspen lodge, where all the psychologists were permited to ski for free. Her husband asked her, "How it went?". She replied, "Fine, but I've never seen so many Freudians slips."

Two psychologists meet at their twentieth college reunion. One of them looks like he just graduated, while the other psychologist looks old, worried and withered.

The older looking one asks the other, "What's your secret? Listening to other people's problems every day, all day long, for years on end, has made an old man of me."
The younger looking one replies, "Who listens?"

Patient: Doctor, my wife thinks I'm crazy because I like sausages.
Psychiatrist: Nonsense! I like sausages too.
Patient: Good, you should come and see my collection. I've got hundreds of them.

When the new patient was settled comfortably on the couch, the physiatrist began his therapy session, "I'm not aware of your problem," the doctor said. "So perhaps, you should start at the very beginning."
"Of course." replied the patient. "In the beginning, I created the Heavens and the Earth..."
In a psychiatrist's waiting room two patients are having a conversation. One says to the other, "Why are you here?"
The second answers, "I'm Napoleon, so the doctor told me to come here."
The first is curious and asks, "How do you know that you're Napoleon?"
The second responds, "God told me I was."
At this point, a patient on the other side of the room shouts, "NO I DIDN'T!"

A man who thinks he's George Washington has been seeing a psychiatrist. He finishes up one session by telling him, "Tomorrow, we'll cross the Delaware and surprise them when they least expect it." As soon as he's gone, the psychiatrist picks up the phone and says, "King George, this is Benedict Arnold. I have the plans."

Joe has been seeing a psychoanalyst for four years for treatment of the fear that he had monsters under his bed. It had been years since he had gotten a good night's sleep. Furthermore, his progress was very poor, and he knew it. So, one day he stops seeing the psychoanalyst and decides to try something different.

A few weeks later, Joe's former psychoanalyst meets his old client in the supermarket, and is surprised to find him looking well-rested, energetic, and cheerful. "Doc!" Joe says, "It's amazing! I'm cured!"
"That's great news!" the psychoanalyst says. "you seem to be doing much better. How?"
"I went to see another doctor," Joe says enthusiastically, "and he cured me in just ONE session!"
"One?!" the psychoanalyst asks incredulously.

"Yeah," continues Joe, "my new doctor is a behaviorist."
"A behaviorist?" the psychoanalyst asks. "How did he cure you in one session?"
"Oh, easy," says Joe. "He told me to cut the legs off of my bed."

A psychologist was walking along a Hawaiian beach when he kicked a bottle poking up through the sand. Opening it, he was astonished to see a cloud of smoke and a genie smiling at him.
"For your kindness," the genie said, "I will grant you one wish!" The psychologist paused, laughed, and replied, "I have always wanted a road from Hawaii to California."
The genie grimaced, thought for a few minutes and said, "Listen, I'm sorry, but I can't do that! Think of all the pilings needed to hold up the highway and how long they'd have to be to reach the bottom of the ocean. Think of all the pavement. That's too much to ask."
"OK," the psychologist said, not wanting to be unreasonable. "I'm a psychologist. Make me understand my patients. What makes them laugh and cry, why are they temperamental, why are they so difficult to get along with, what do they really want? Basically, teach me to understand what makes them tick!"
The genie paused, and then sighed, "Did you want two lanes or four?"

One behaviorist to another after lovemaking:
"Darling, that was wonderful for you. How was it for me?"
How do you tell the difference between the staff and the inmates at a psychiatric hospital?
The patients get better and leave.
Not everyone of the patients thinks he is God.
The staff have the keys!
Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I am a set of curtains!
Pull yourself together, man!
Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a bell.
Well, just go home and if the feeling persists, give me a ring.

Doctor, doctor, people tell me I'm a wheelbarrow.
Don't let people push you around.

Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm invisible.
Who said that?!

Doctor, doctor, nobody understands me.
What do you mean by that?

Doctor, doctor, People keep ignoring me!
Next!

Doctor, doctor, No one believes a word I say.
Tell me the truth now, what's your REAL problem?

Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pack of cards.
I'll deal with you later.

Doctor, doctor, people keep telling me I'm ugly!
Lay on the couch, face down.

Doctor, Doctor, I can't stop stealing things.
Take these pills for a week; if that doesn't work I'll have a color TV!

Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a spoon.
Sit there and don't stir.

Doctor, doctor, I'm manic-depressive.
Calm down. Cheer up. Clam down. Cheer up. Calm...

Doctor, doctor, I keep trying to get into fights.
And how long have you had this complaint?
Who wants to know?

Doctor, doctor, I can't concentrate, one minute I'm ok, and the next minute, I'm blank!
And how long have you had this complaint?
What complaint?

Doctor, doctor, I feel so short!
No problem. Hop up on the couch.

Doctor, doctor, I feel like a small bucket.
You do look a little pail.

Doctor, doctor, I've only got 59 seconds to live.
Wait a minute please.

Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears.
Don't answer!
Patient: Doctor, you must help me. I'm under such a lot of stress, I keep losing my temper with people.
Doctor: Tell me about your problem.
Patient: I JUST DID, DIDN'T I, YOU STUPID BASTARD!!!

Doctor, Doctor, I think I'm a bridge.
What's come over you?
Oh, two cars, a large truck and a coach.

Doctor, Doctor, I think I'm a cat.
How long has this been going on?
Oh, since I was a kitten!

Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a dog.
Lie down on the couch and I'll examine you.
I can't, I'm not allowed on the furniture.

How psychiatrists do it...
Psychiatrists do it on the couch.
Psychiatrists think they do it.
Psychiatrists do it for at least fifty dollars per session.

How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
None. The light bulb will change itself when it's ready.
Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.
Just one, but it takes nine visits.

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
"How long have you been having this phantasy?"
"Why does the light bulb necessarily have to change?"
One, but he must consult the DSM-IV.

How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a light bulb?
"How many do you think it takes?"
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Whats The Difference Between Psychology And Psychiatry

Many persons are confused about the difference between psychiatry and psychology. The following discussion, therefore, offers an objective, concise, and simply-stated description of the difference.



Psychiatry


A psychiatrist has attended medical school and is a physician and therefore holds an M.D. degree. In residency, he or she received specialized training in the field of psychiatry, in addition to all the rigorous training of medical school in general. And, just like other fields of medical practice such as internal medicine, psychiatry tends to focus mainly on the use of medications for treatment. Therefore, psychiatric training does not necessarily encompass training in psychotherapy, and, unlike the training for many psychologists, psychiatrists are not required to complete any personal psychotherapy. Nevertheless, many psychiatrists have, for personal reasons, pursued training in psychotherapy. Historically, this training has most often been in the area of psychoanalysis.

Psychology

A psychologist usually holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D., Psy.D., or Ed.D.) from a university or professional school. Generally, if he or she is in clinical practice, the degree will be in Clinical Psychology (although it might be in Counseling Psychology). With the exception of the Psy.D. (a purely clinical degree), all psychologists have had extensive training in research, having completed an original scientific study—called a doctoral dissertation—as a major part of the training.
In fact, the psychologist’s training in research is what most distinguishes a psychologist from other providers of mental health treatment. Not only does the field of psychology use research to assess the effectiveness of various forms of treatment, but also any particular psychologist trained in research should have acquired some solid skills useful for analyzing information and drawing conclusions in psychotherapy sessions.
Moreover, in addition to research training, the psychologist will have completed one or more clinical internships, and he or she will likely have been required to have experienced at least a year of personal psychotherapy.
Many psychologists also receive training in psychological testing.

What about Psychoanalysis?

Although the current practice of both psychiatry and psychology has been deeply influenced by the theories of psychoanalysis, all three practices have separate roots.
As explained above, psychiatry has its roots in medicine. Psychology has its roots in the academic study of animal and human perception, and in the early part of the 20th century it was first applied clinically as an aid to education.

Psychoanalysis, both a theory of mental functioning and a specific type of treatment philosophy, was developed by Sigmund Freud in the early 1900s. Freud, a physician and a professor of medicine, developed his theories about psychoanalysis while studying cases of hysteria and compulsion neurosis. The basic premise of psychoanalysis is that most psychological symptoms are the result of our unconsciously avoiding many of the unpleasant truths about ourselves. Through a detailed “psycho” analysis (i.e., analysis of our thought process and mental images) we come to learn just how we consistently manage to lie to and deceive ourselves. The idea behind this treatment philosophy is that persons who have come to understand their own deceptions can then manage to avoid being controlled by them.

(the above excerpt is taken from http://www.guidetopsychology.com/psypsy.htm)

Subspecialties Of Psychiatry

Various subspecialties and/or theoretical approaches exist which are related to the field of psychiatry. They include the following:

Biological psychiatry; an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system.
Child and adolescent psychiatry; a branch of psychiatry that specialises in work with children, teenagers, and their families.
Community psychiatry; an approach that reflects an inclusive public health perspective and is practiced in community mental health services.[22]
Cross-cultural psychiatry; a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural and ethnic context of mental disorder and psychiatric services.
Emergency psychiatry; the clinical application of psychiatry in emergency settings.
Forensic psychiatry; the interface between law and psychiatry.
Geriatric psychiatry; a branch of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in humans with old age.
Liaison psychiatry; the branch of psychiatry that specializes in the interface between other medical specialties and psychiatry.
Military psychiatry; covers special aspects of psychiatry and mental disorders within the military context.
Neuropsychiatry; branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system.
Social psychiatry; a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the interpersonal and cultural context of mental disorder and mental wellbeing.

(the above except is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry)

Subspecialities Of Psychology

Psychology encompasses a vast domain, and includes many different approaches to the study of mental processes and behavior. Below are the major areas of inquiry that comprise psychology.

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Anti-Psychiatry Videos

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Psychiatric Drugs

Below is a list to some of the most popular websites explaining psychiatric drugs, their uses, types, dangers, side effects and other notable facts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_medication provides a reasonable comprehensive list of the popular drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychiatric_medications_by_condition_treated is ordered alphabetically according to the condition or conditions each drug is used to treat, then by the generic name of each drug. The list is not exhaustive and not all drugs are used regularly in all countries.

http://psychiatricdrugs.org/ provides prescription information including use, side-effects and interaction information.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/psychopharmacology/l/bldrug4.htm provides an index by generic name, trade name, condition etc.

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/SearchHelp/Search/Searchresults/index.htm?within=Yes&keywords=psychiatric is a search on the term "psychiatric" from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, a UK executive agency of the Department of Health.
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