Psychiatry & Veteran Affairs
issues in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,
PTSD and government mind contnrol
focusing on the relationship between
schizophregenic institutions and
schizophrenic behavior
~ PSYCHIATRY ~
Hon. Thomas M. Shepherd, Director-Publisher
~ The Shepherd Center for Sane Living ~
by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, West Point
All Boys Are Psychologically Abused
During Boot Camp. The Process Is Intended
to Rewire Developing Male Adolescent Brains
- To Train Boys to Engage in Violent Behavior
- To Accept Violent Behavor as Normal - As Manly
Desensitization & Brutalization
Are We Training Our Kids to Kill?
The U.S. Government Trained Timothy McVeigh
to Kill! Yet the Government Denies
Responsibility for McVeigh's Behavior
Operant Conditioning
The Effects of Combat Training on Violence
by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, West Point
Killology
Torture, Internacionale
Timothy McVeigh's fertilizer truck bomb could not
possibly have leveled the Murrah Federal Building.
There is no doubt among the experts that the inside
of the building had already been wired with much
more sophisticated and powerful demolition devices
-- devices engineered by demolition experts. learn more
the medical model vs. the diathesis-stress model
by Tom Blaise de Shepherd read online
Sane and Sober Living:
The Schizophregenic Society
institutionalized double-bind communication
by Tom Blaise Shepherd
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Brainwashing and Government Coverups:
CIA Shrinks Programmed Unabomber Ted Kaczynski
to Kill While He Was at Harvard. Government Shrinks
Also Drugged Eric Harris, Kip Kinkle and others
Anti-Depressants and LSD Can Trigger Manic
and Paranoid Schizophrenic Behavior
Free Press & CounterPunch
The Myths and Realities
of Human Sexuality
CIA Mind-Control Experiments at Harvard
Ted Kaczynski, The CIA and LSD
Examining the Evidence
Thomas Blaise Shepherd, Author
Existentialism, Schizophrenia
and Psychiatry
by Thomas Blaise Shepherd
& Schizophrenia
"Curing the Therapeutic State"
by Thomas Szasz, M.D.
by Thomas M. Shepherd
The Secret Service & The FBI
Is Big Brother-Sister Trying to Drug You?
Is Big Brother-Sister Trying to Seduce You?
Is Big Brother-Sister Trying to Discredit You?
Your psychiatrist may be your worst enemy!
read
The Sting
A Long Day's Journey
Into Schizophrenia
The Tom Shepherd Story
by Tom Blaise Shepherd
The double-bind theory of communication views schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and PTSD as conditioned and appropriate, although bizarre, behavior responses to contradictory and inappropriate messages conveyed by parents or surrogate-parents (i.e. teachers, drill instructors). This can be in a nuclear family or in an institutionalized setting such as in a boarding school or in a military organization. As an example, a parent, teacher, or officer may offer an alcoholic beverage to an adolescent, and then incarcarate the adolescent for resultingly becoming intoxicated. Or a male authority figure may formally condemn homosexuality, then when an opportunity arises make sexual advances to a subordinate. Even if the subordinate resists, he is maligned with innuendoes designed to destroy his confidence and credibility.
Although the Jewish and Islamic religions have strong sanctions against killing, they justify killing during military action or during the administration of capital punishment: An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. Although Christianity condemns any kind of killing: Matthew 5 & 6: Love your enemies; do not resist an evil person, Christian military chaplains apply Jewish-Islamic law to jusify armed combat and killing.
These are indeed institutionalized double-bind messages, and no doubt have a more profound influence in the development of schizophrenic reactions, bipolar disorder and PTSD, especially among Christian-reared enlisted men, than government chaplains and psychiatrists are willing to acknowledge. If such contradictory messages are conveyed with frequency and great emotional intensity, the adolescent or young adult may become confused and eventually withdraw from social interaction, or develop antisocial patterns of behavior by replicating the inappropriate adult-reinforced behavior himself.
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Freida Fromm-Reichmann, pioneer 20th Century psychotherapist, like Harry Stack Sulllivan, viewed schizophrenia not as a disease, but as a neurologically conditioned behavior response to the unreasonable demands of parents, surrogate-parents and society-in-general. She is also credited with orginating the concept of the "schizophregenic mother," one who intensely reinforces a double-bind communication system [contradictory messages] with her children. Although some modern-day psychiatrists and psychologists have dismissed the "schizophregenic mother" concept, the concept of a schizophregenic mother, father or even a "schizophregenic institution" is a very valid concept in viewing the implication of double-bind communication in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, as well as in PTSD. The concept is especially valid in military organizations.
The attention variable, whether under-attention or over-attention, is due to disturbing memories associated with neglect or violence, and is one facet that is characteristic of virtually all diagnosed psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The memories interfere with one's ability to concentrate and pursue goals. Psychologist Eric Berne termed the memories, "the life script." John Modrow, author of How to Become a Schizophrenic termed the memories, "the internal persecutors." Others term the memories "flashbacks." In some instances, the memories are manifested as "auditory hallucinations," but whether the memories are manifested as "auditory hallucinations" or as "flashbacks," they can be equally incapacitating for the individual experiencing them.
Flashbacks, common to PTSD as well as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are frequently experienced as a double consciousness, in which a current troubling situation is overshadowed and intensified by the intrusive memory of a previous traumatic event, resulting in disproportionate fear, anger and panic. Although indeed incapacitating, flashbacks are not necessarily reported as having a visual or auditory aspect, even though they in fact generally do have visual and/or auditory aspects in varying degrees, which accounts for the seemingly bizarre, inappropriate behavior exhibited by those experiencing flashbacks, including carrying on a conversation with people who are not present.
Web Link:
The Good Earth News
The Good Earth News features two
related articles by Tom Blaise Shepherd:
Sex and Sanity: A Sociocultural
View of Human Sexuality and
Sexual Abuse of Young Men - PTSD
Other Web Links:
The Tom Shepherd World
Educational Foundation
National Institute of Mental Health:
Bipolar Disorder
and Allied Disorders