That was a very good article. Pretty much covered it.
It's true psychiatry can never be changed from within. The field loves to sneer at "antipsychiatry" activists, yet what little human rights gains have been made over the years have been the indirect result of sustained protests made by these "anti-science," nihilistic home-wreckers who don't know what they're talking about.
Of course these improvements are sanitized, limited and contingent, and made to look like the enlightened, compassionate inspiration of psychiatry itself.
In terms of external social and political pressure leading to change, it depends where it's coming from. Critics seem to belong to a broad church: there's neo-Marxists, Ayn Rand fan boys, religious nuts, embittered, contrarian sociologists, woo-woo wellness grifters, lockstep, fist-shaking atheists. A real, motley crew.
From very different ideological persuasions they have come to very similar conclusions. And they probably arrived at those conclusions precisely because they weren't mainstream and weren't marinating in the same echo chamber as the general public and the psychiatric and medical profession.
However if psychiatry wants to dismiss and discredit its critics all it has to do is dilate on some of the more eccentric social and philosophical manifestations of those that resist the venal, group-think nostrums of its pseudoscientific cult.
I think as more medication harm survivors come forward and tell their stories in mainstream media there will be an improvement in awareness and critical thinking. That will be slow in coming, though. Big Pharma did a brilliant job infiltrating, colonizing, and arseraping left-wing identity politics. How many of these earnest anti-stigma campaigners realize they were played like a card by a right wing business juggernaut?
ECT awareness will be a harder sell. Whether a member of the public sees ECT as an innocuous life-saver, a barbaric form of torture, or they simply don't care, everything about that dubious intervention is so luridly, inhumanly abstract, so removed from warm-blooded daily life, that it doesn't exactly inspire sentimental engagement.
Psychiatry may be a "new" field, as they say, to justify its ignorance and incompetence, but actually it's been around for quite a while. As an effective form of suppression and social control, as the medico-behavioural wing of the status quo, its not going to go away, or be radically improved, in a hurry. But incremental change and awareness is possible.
The problem starts aswell with the people who lives from the psychiatric scam, nurses, hospital carers, pharmacist, judges, social workers they are as guilty as psychiatrist and doctors. I am sure that offering a substantial increase on their salaries will agree to work in any other system... Those slaves are themselves part of the problem.. It cannot be that witnessing what happens to people in psychiatric treatment do not realize is a scam.. 🤔
Treatments offered by todays’ psychiatrists differ dangerously little from those of the past involving drug cocktails followed by varying degrees of electroshock treatment resulting in permanent disabling regression.
For example, in 2014, Jess Kaur, (one of many sub postmasters to be accused or convicted of theft and fraud because of a faulty computer system called Horizon) received 14 treatments of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after medication did not work. Mrs Kaur said it (ECT) did not work leading to childhood memory loss and she again tried to commit suicide whilst in hospital. Following 15 years of receiving modern psychiatric treatments including a brain scan so his medication could be tweaked, in 2025, Jeremy Koch also received ECT treatment. After treatment, unable to get out of bed unassisted, Jeremy killed himself and his family.
Modern treatments such as severe brain damage from ablative surgery or drilling holes in the skull for electrical stimulation (references can be supplied) are no different from leucotomies.
Dr McLaren your links are not working, trying to share this post, goes to a website with your name with adds 🤔.. One more think in the app you can use private message to contact any follower privately, no sure in the website 🤔please fix your link to share.. Is important Thanks Orli
Thank you Sr McLaren great article 🔥🌹💌🏅🏆👏🏻🙂 really enjoyed, sadly my time for reading had to be reduced, and I couldn't read your latest articles :(
I have a theory in relation of psychiatry on why they seem can do what they like with no consequences.. I donot know what is your opinion in phenomena like Havana Syndrome, that în reality started în the 60s în relation to brain artificial targeting as the battlefield between opposite forces, I think psychiatry has been involved from the beginning on a great number of those diagnosed with mental illness and they were artificially provoked, and people use for experimentation... I would love to be wrong! An yes the only way to stop this is by sharing information with people, and allow other health natural systems to suport a recovery (proper nutrition, personalized treatments, social stability, before psychiatry converts the patients in a drug addict added to his her initial problem.
Sadly for those under psychiatric treatment the situation is much more complicated still feasible. It gives hope see doctors like you exist! You open the door to hope for a better future for our love ones and humanity in general 🔥🏅🙂sharing your post Dr McLaren
That was a very good article. Pretty much covered it.
It's true psychiatry can never be changed from within. The field loves to sneer at "antipsychiatry" activists, yet what little human rights gains have been made over the years have been the indirect result of sustained protests made by these "anti-science," nihilistic home-wreckers who don't know what they're talking about.
Of course these improvements are sanitized, limited and contingent, and made to look like the enlightened, compassionate inspiration of psychiatry itself.
In terms of external social and political pressure leading to change, it depends where it's coming from. Critics seem to belong to a broad church: there's neo-Marxists, Ayn Rand fan boys, religious nuts, embittered, contrarian sociologists, woo-woo wellness grifters, lockstep, fist-shaking atheists. A real, motley crew.
From very different ideological persuasions they have come to very similar conclusions. And they probably arrived at those conclusions precisely because they weren't mainstream and weren't marinating in the same echo chamber as the general public and the psychiatric and medical profession.
However if psychiatry wants to dismiss and discredit its critics all it has to do is dilate on some of the more eccentric social and philosophical manifestations of those that resist the venal, group-think nostrums of its pseudoscientific cult.
I think as more medication harm survivors come forward and tell their stories in mainstream media there will be an improvement in awareness and critical thinking. That will be slow in coming, though. Big Pharma did a brilliant job infiltrating, colonizing, and arseraping left-wing identity politics. How many of these earnest anti-stigma campaigners realize they were played like a card by a right wing business juggernaut?
ECT awareness will be a harder sell. Whether a member of the public sees ECT as an innocuous life-saver, a barbaric form of torture, or they simply don't care, everything about that dubious intervention is so luridly, inhumanly abstract, so removed from warm-blooded daily life, that it doesn't exactly inspire sentimental engagement.
Psychiatry may be a "new" field, as they say, to justify its ignorance and incompetence, but actually it's been around for quite a while. As an effective form of suppression and social control, as the medico-behavioural wing of the status quo, its not going to go away, or be radically improved, in a hurry. But incremental change and awareness is possible.
The problem starts aswell with the people who lives from the psychiatric scam, nurses, hospital carers, pharmacist, judges, social workers they are as guilty as psychiatrist and doctors. I am sure that offering a substantial increase on their salaries will agree to work in any other system... Those slaves are themselves part of the problem.. It cannot be that witnessing what happens to people in psychiatric treatment do not realize is a scam.. 🤔
Treatments offered by todays’ psychiatrists differ dangerously little from those of the past involving drug cocktails followed by varying degrees of electroshock treatment resulting in permanent disabling regression.
For example, in 2014, Jess Kaur, (one of many sub postmasters to be accused or convicted of theft and fraud because of a faulty computer system called Horizon) received 14 treatments of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after medication did not work. Mrs Kaur said it (ECT) did not work leading to childhood memory loss and she again tried to commit suicide whilst in hospital. Following 15 years of receiving modern psychiatric treatments including a brain scan so his medication could be tweaked, in 2025, Jeremy Koch also received ECT treatment. After treatment, unable to get out of bed unassisted, Jeremy killed himself and his family.
Modern treatments such as severe brain damage from ablative surgery or drilling holes in the skull for electrical stimulation (references can be supplied) are no different from leucotomies.
Dr McLaren your links are not working, trying to share this post, goes to a website with your name with adds 🤔.. One more think in the app you can use private message to contact any follower privately, no sure in the website 🤔please fix your link to share.. Is important Thanks Orli
Thank you Sr McLaren great article 🔥🌹💌🏅🏆👏🏻🙂 really enjoyed, sadly my time for reading had to be reduced, and I couldn't read your latest articles :(
I have a theory in relation of psychiatry on why they seem can do what they like with no consequences.. I donot know what is your opinion in phenomena like Havana Syndrome, that în reality started în the 60s în relation to brain artificial targeting as the battlefield between opposite forces, I think psychiatry has been involved from the beginning on a great number of those diagnosed with mental illness and they were artificially provoked, and people use for experimentation... I would love to be wrong! An yes the only way to stop this is by sharing information with people, and allow other health natural systems to suport a recovery (proper nutrition, personalized treatments, social stability, before psychiatry converts the patients in a drug addict added to his her initial problem.
Sadly for those under psychiatric treatment the situation is much more complicated still feasible. It gives hope see doctors like you exist! You open the door to hope for a better future for our love ones and humanity in general 🔥🏅🙂sharing your post Dr McLaren