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Perennis odium
- Feb 4, 2021
- 52
The details of early psychiatry are somewhat primitive and shrouded in mystery, not to mention tainted by early man's insistence upon spiritual and demonic possession being the culprit for every ailment under the sun. At some point it became regarded as a legitimate profession and supposed method of healing.
Today, psychiatry and its cousin general medicine bear little resemblance to their original form, having been usurped by big business and corrupt industry as both a profit spinner and exploitation device, and warped by avarice into a twisted, farcical sham. Doctors exist only to shill drugs for pharmaceutical giants and look at patients as commodities to hoodwink and plunder for money in the form of medical bills. The Hippocratic Oath is long dead and forgotten; a mere formality reduced to a platitude posted upon a plaque. Modern psychiatrists exist for similar reasons but also to steer minds towards society's acceptable parameters of thinking.
That said, I wonder if it originally began as a genuine method of healing a person, or was it always conceived with the intent of control and manipulation?
Thoughts?
Today, psychiatry and its cousin general medicine bear little resemblance to their original form, having been usurped by big business and corrupt industry as both a profit spinner and exploitation device, and warped by avarice into a twisted, farcical sham. Doctors exist only to shill drugs for pharmaceutical giants and look at patients as commodities to hoodwink and plunder for money in the form of medical bills. The Hippocratic Oath is long dead and forgotten; a mere formality reduced to a platitude posted upon a plaque. Modern psychiatrists exist for similar reasons but also to steer minds towards society's acceptable parameters of thinking.
That said, I wonder if it originally began as a genuine method of healing a person, or was it always conceived with the intent of control and manipulation?
Thoughts?