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Tom Blaise Shepherd is an American philosopher, educator and social critic. He is an alumnus of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and of the Graduate College of the University of Oklahoma. He has served as a planning consultant to a regional planning commission and law enforcement assistance council and as an advisory board member of mental health agencies in Los Angeles County. He is also the author of An Existential Approach to Sober Living and other books on the subject of criminal justice and mental health. Some of the many books reviewed by Tom Blaise Shepherd for Amazon.com, for Barnes&Noble.com and for other book distributors are posted here. Reviews of his own books are also posted here.

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Psychiatry is a Hoax and a Fraud

Designed to Disenfranchise / Exploit

the Naïve and the Powerless

Schizophrenia is NOT a disease,

nor is bipolar disorder.

They are conditioned behavior responses.

The chemical imbalance theory is an invention of the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry, commonly used to exploit the naïve and powerless and to justify harmful psychotropic drug therapy.

There is no objective test to determine if an individual is experiencing delusions or auditory or visual hallucinations. If you have been informed otherwise, you have been misled. The only chemical imbalance that exists is that which is temporarily created by psychoactive drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, LSD, anti-depressants amphetamines and neuroleptics, although ongoing psychological and physical trauma can presumably also destabilize brain chemistry.

Many individuals no doubt wind up in a psychiatric clinic because an abusive parent, spouse, teacher or another individual has discredited them as being out of contact with reality as a form of defense. The psychiatric patient invariably finds himself or herself in a checkmate situation, as it were. The stigmatization of a psychiatric diagnosis can, in itself, create living problems, in addition to problems created by prescribed psychiatric drugs.

Balanced Nutrition & Exercise

Stabilizes the Brain

Alcoholic beverage distributors and other psychoactive drug distributors are NOT your friends. They are your enemies. Their aim is not to help you or anyone else. Their aim is to exploit you and others by persuading you and others to consume mentally/physically incapacitating drugs that reduce anyone’s psychomotor skills and capacity for exercising sound judgment in social situations.

Balanced/sound nutrition and regular light exercise are the building blocks and foundation of a healthy and functional brain, NOT anti-depressant drugs, NOT neuroleptic drugs (Haldol, Mellail, Zyprexa, etc., etc.). It takes months, sometimes years, for the brain’s natural chemical balance to be restored once a prescribed psychoactive drug has been discontinued. There is invariably a rebound effect, which is how psychiatrists continue to exploit their naïve, unwitting patients, often by prescribing other drugs.

Violence is Conditioned Behavior

No one has a violent nature. No one inherits a violent gene. Violence is learned behavior. Violence is a conditioned response. Males, beginning in childhood, are typically taught by their parents and surrogate parents (teachers, athletic coaches and military drill instructors) that if they do not engage in competitive, combative and even violent behavior that they are not worthy of being classified as men – that they are cowards, pansies or faggots. Violence is taught at school or at the local Y in the boxing class by the athletic coach or instructor. A child, adolescent, young male or female that has been a victim of bullying – of repeated violence and humiliation – a victim of assaults and batteries – is more likely than another individual, when under the influence of psychoactive drugs (including alcohol) to respond in kind to the actual or perceived hostilities of another individual, as such chemicals reduce one’s ability for making rational, non-violent, intelligent responses.

The terms straight and gay,

as commonly used, are absurd!

All people have a capacity for experiencing romantic feelings for both males and females. All people also have a capacity for experiencing erotic feelings for both males and females, as a result of casual physical contact. If you have been informed otherwise, you have been misled. As a result of ancient barbaric teachings, people have been conditioned to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable about their romantic and erotic feelings for others of the same sex. This self-consciousness is most probably at the root of a great deal of sociopathic or antisocial behavior, reinforced by law enforcement officials. As a result of ancient barbaric religious teachings, modern-day societies have criminalized behavior that is not only normal, but that is biologically natural.

An Existential Approach to Sane & Sober Living

in a Schizophregenic Society

Sex and Sanity:

The Myths and Realities of Human Sexuality

read at:

The Shepherd Center for Sane Living

Founded by Thomas M. B. Shepherd

The Evergreen Post Book Reviews:

Ken Englade’s

Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik

Ann Rule’s

The Stranger Beside Me

Joel Norris’s

Serial Killers

Dorothy Otnow Lewis’s

Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Reviewer: Tom Blaise Shepherd

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Serial Killers – Crime Library – Biographies

Schizophrenic ~ The Gary Heidnik Case ~ Superior I.Q.

bishop - husband - torturer

he was tortured and humiliated by his parents

and school chums during his own childhood

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