Psychiatry – a fake? a fraud? a crime
Transcript of an excerpt from BBC2 “The Trap”, broadcast 11th March 2007
wiki/The Trap…
wiki/R._D._Laing Could psychiatrists in America distinguish between madness and sanity?”
wiki/Rosenhan…
“He was called David Rosenhan and he devised a dramatic experiment. He assembled 8 people, including himself, none of whom had ever had any psychiatric problems.
Each person was sent across the country to a specific mental hospital. At an agreed time, they all presented themselves at their hospital and told the psychiatrist on duty they were hearing a voice in their head that said the word “Thud”. That was the only lie they should tell otherwise they were to behave and respond completely normally.”
David Rosenhan – “They were all diagnosed as insane and admitted to the hospital.”
Question – “And were any of them insane?”
David Rosenhan – “No. There was nobody who could have judged these people as insane. … but I told friends, I told my family, I get out when I get out; that’s all. Be there for a couple of days and then I get out. Nobody knew I would be there for 2 months!”
They found there was nothing they could do to convince the doctors they were sane and it quickly became clear that the only way out would be to agree that they were insane and then pretend to be getting better.
Rosenhan agreed and after a month, the hospital proudly announced that they had discovered 41 fakes. Rosenhan then revealed that he had sent no-one to the hospital.
The effect of The Thud Experiment was a disaster for American psychiatry. It destroyed the idea that they were a privileged elite with specialist knowledge.
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Hello,
I am a targeted individual from San Francisco, CA. San Francisco’s General Hospital psychiatric department played a large role in my harassment. I had never been hospitalized in my life until the summer of 2008 where I was falsely imprisoned there on three separate occasions.
While there I was forced to endure hours of “street theater” and what I feel was nothing less than radiation experiments. I’ve made contact with every agency I could think of and have still received no assistance nor am I able to find an attorney to take my case. My phone calls are intercepted and rerouted and my email accounts are constantly hacked.
When hearing about gangstalking rarely is there direct mention of systemic participation.
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gangstalking Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Hi Shannon,
After getting past the lie of the Vigilante Gangs, Gang Stalking World has always maintained that this is systemic. It says so right on the front of the site.
“Gang Stalking is a systemic form of control, which seeks to destroy every aspect of a Targeted Individuals life. A covert investigation is opened and the target is followed around 24/7 by Civilian Spies/Snitches. Overt and covert methods are used as part of the surveillance process. ”
See and several other sites have made it clear that it’s systemic, and this site has also made it clear that the state, government, is responsible. The Gang Stalking World position is that the citizens of these programs have become informants, and it’s systemic, but it’s also now somewhat of an open secret. It was systemic in Russia, East Germany, and Cointelpro and McCarthyism were systemic.
All targets can do is expose this, and when we financially can take legal action. If every target took part in activism, we might be a bit further, then again activism at first means more harassment, but this is the only way we will stand any chance. Still each target has to do what is best for their situation. A parent with children might not be in a situation for activism, but then a parent with children might have no choice.
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