Holocaust Physicians

Pop quiz:

Did or did not psychiatry play a prominent role in the eugenics movement of Nazi Germany, AND the eugenic thinking that was popular in the USA, at the same time, and resulted in mass sterilizations?

yea or nay

 

What the Nazis tried was quack science, and not even the biologists who adhere to Darwin's theory respect it. Why? When the state, and its bureaucrats, take the place of the couple in deciding who mates with whom, some genetic degeneration will occur. Bureaucrats are not matchmakers. Of course, Nazis thought that individuals weren't capable of knowing what was best for society, such that society's representatives needed to play matchmaker.

People were not meant to be bred like horses. To have continued to do so would have led to a lot of tall, attractive, defectives. Psychopaths, especially.

 

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Here is a blog of someone's that describes some of the history. I suspect some of the info is from the Scientologists, but that doesn't discount its importance. As they say, "Out of the mouths of fools . . "

Today the USA has a large number of schoolchildren on drugs such as Ritalin and SSRI's. A lot of money is made by the medical / pharmaceutical complex. As for the future, I expect eugenics to have a comeback, as scientific knowledge about our DNA advances. Expect psychiatry to play a roll again. Does not history repeat itself?

Here's that blog:

http://infoaboutpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2007/02/eugenics-behind-holocaust.html

 

No. It is history. You read any criticism of psychiatry as condemnation of the entirety.

The field of mental health will always attract control freaks. Those who arrogantly think they can define "normal". Those who press their values on others under the guise of medicine.

 

While eugenics has been discredited, and American and European psychiatrists no longer entertain that notion, at least publicly, the personality type is still to be found in mental health. Controlling.

Freud's daughter said the most sophisticated defense mechanism she'd ever seen was that of psychoanalyst.

I won't even begin discussing the way drug companies influence psychiatry.

 

An attitude runs through psychiatry

You admit the history shows an involvement of psychiatry with eugenics! That's a start.

Yes, from the sterilization of thousands of Americans, some merely poor, to the mass murder of Europe, psychiatry was THERE. Today, there is still a presence in the ranks of psychiatry of persons who

seek to control others and limit the freedom of others
see dissent, rebellion, heresy, and the questioning of authority as anti-social
suffer from their own mental impairments

Do we not all know this already? I think it is common knowledge among the common people.

Believers of Scientology are far from the only ones skeptical of psychiatry. Take a look at this well written article, which speaks of a link between the past and the present:

http://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/09-12-12