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“MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY
PsychSearch “MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY Colin Taufer In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. His award-winning contribution to mankind? “His discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. A leucotomy is more commonly known as a lobotomy, the neurosurgical procedure consisting of cutting or scraping away the connective tissue to and from the brain’s prefrontal cortex in the name of mental health. Or, in the words of psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, it’s simply the disabling of the brain. The “ice pick lobotomy” was one of the most common psychiatric “therapies” of the late 1940’s [...]
21st Century Mental Asylums
PsychSearch Mental Asylums of the 21st Century: Prisons and Jails By Colin Taufer The three largest mental institutions in America are the Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Correctional Institution in New York City and Cook County Jail in Chicago, the latter being the largest in the United States. This fact may come as a surprise to many. But to the men and women who work on the front lines of law enforcement and mental health care, this is the stark reality of the world they live in. They see first-hand the cycle of human destruction psychiatrists have created: [...]
The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage
PsychSearch ECT and CTE - The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage By Colin Taufer "Your brain is safer in a car accident than in the hands of a psychiatrist." On September 30, 2014, researchers with Boston University announced that in autopsies of 79 brains of former NFL players, 76 had tested positive for CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, “the signature disease of football”. (Encephalopathy is defined as disease, damage or malfunction of the brain.) CTE is a degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe or repeated blows to the head, concussions. According to the Center [...]
You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison
PsychSearch You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison Colin Taufer His final days were spent in a bare jail cell alone — no bed, no mattress, no bench, no sink. His room constantly illuminated by overhead lights, and he barely slept, less than 30 minutes over a two-day period. He didn’t eat. His toilet was a grate on the floor. Eight days after being admitted and forty pounds lighter, he died covered in his own waste. Marc Moreno was eighteen-years old. He had a history of mental illness. How does it happen that a teen going through the most desperate [...]
The “Church” of the Holy Label
PsychSearch The “Church” of the Holy Label Colin Taufer Those that knew her found Candace Downing to be a very bright little girl and an overachiever, the youngest in a loving family. When she was in sixth grade, her psychiatrist, after a very brief evaluation, decided the anxieties she was experiencing during school tests would require a prescription for the antidepressant Zoloft. Her prescription was increased before she started the seventh grade. Not long after, twelve year old Candace hung herself from her four-poster bed — another life destroyed by psychiatric labeling. According to the bible of psychiatry, the DSM [...]
Psychiatric diagnosis from afar
PsychSearch Psychiatric Diagnosis from Afar Colin Taufer When psychiatrists make a claim in which they cite their “ethical responsibility” as justification for doing so, it is both absurd and laughable. Psychiatrists cannot and should not be trusted. Such was the case in April of this year when a group of psychiatrists proclaimed, "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness." Visit the homepage of PsychSearch any day of the week and you will find a fresh assortment of mugshots of psychiatrists in trouble with the law for sex crimes, drug abuse, or fraud [...]
Coercion and Profits by Confusion
PsychSearch Coercion and Profits by Confusion Colin Taufer Open any magazine and chances are you will find its pages filled with ads from Big Pharma. This is because Big Pharma is far and away the biggest spender when it comes to magazine ads. In fact, it spends nearly double that of the number two magazine advertiser, retail and online apparel. In 2015 Big Pharma’s spending on such ads peaked at more than $1.5 billion, a 19% jump over the previous year. Such advertising is known as Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising. Not only do we see it in magazine ads, [...]
A Basic Human Right Violated
PsychSearch A Basic Human Right Violated Colin Taufer “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman* or degrading treatment or punishment,” states article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that set out, for the first time, to universally protect everyone’s fundamental human rights. In headlines, we read about violations of this human right every day. The CIA waterboarding suspected terrorists, ISIS soldiers brutalizing their kidnapped victims, war criminals committing genocide. Clearly these are acts of torture. They are cruel, inhuman and degrading. They cause outrage. They start wars, they prolong [...]
Shock Treatment in your Neighborhood
PsychSearch Shock Treatment in your Neighborhood Colin Taufer You might think the barbaric psychiatric “treatment” of applying electricity to the temples and passing it through the brain to produce grand mal seizures is obsolete. You might think that a “treatment” that causes brain damage in patients would not be tolerated by a modern, civilized society and would no longer exist. You might think a patient winning a malpractice suit against her psychiatrist for shock treatment or a class action lawsuit against manufacturers of shock treatment machines would outlaw the practice. But, as unbelievable as it may seem, [...]
In Her Own Words – A Shock Therapy Survivor
PsychSearch In Her Own Words - A Shock Therapy Survivor Colin Taufer In my last article I compared the brain damage caused by shock therapy and the brutal helmet to helmet collisions of American football. Both the patient and the player are left with short and long term symptoms such as memory loss, confusions and progressive dementia. Unfortunately, in the case of the shock patients, these detrimental symptoms are seen as the “cures” for whatever ails them. The patient’s fogged memory and impaired reasoning are seen by the psychiatrist as improvements. Dull the patient’s cognitive reasoning and emotional life force [...]
How Psychiatry Labels Gifted Children for Psychiatric Drugging
PsychSearch How Psychiatry Labels Gifted Children for Psychiatric Drugging Colin Taufer A mother and a psychiatrist are relaxing in a park, both observing the mother’s son at play. The mother feels her child may be gifted. The psychiatrist observes the boy and speculates he is suffering from ADD/ADHD and needs medication. How could this be? How could two people viewing the same child come to such different conclusions? The first answer is, like all psychiatric diagnoses, there are no bio-markers (no blood tests, no brain scans, no genetic tests, no hair analyses) that validate the “disease” of ADD/ADHD. The [...]
“Forensic Psychiatry” Insanity
PsychSearch "Forensic Psychiatry" Insanity Colin Taufer Forensic Psychiatry* - a subspecialty of psychiatry which applies to legal issues. There are two major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the Offense The American Psychiatric Association wants the world to know that mental illness is a disease just like heart disease or diabetes. This is simply not true. Diseases have biomarkers which can be tested for and proven to exist. A real doctor can examine an x-ray and diagnose heart disease or read a blood test and [...]
The Shrinks are Shrinking
PsychSearch The Shrinks are Shrinking Colin Taufer "Psychiatry is in decline and is becoming obsolete.” This statement does not come from an anti-psychiatry group or a former patient with an axe to grind or a dubious website. This quote comes from an article published by The British Journal of Medical Practitioners, a professional, peer-reviewed online medical journal. The title of the article says it all Psychiatry in Decline. How does the author, a noted English psychiatrist, make his point? Plentifully, honestly and accurately: ● Psychotropic drugs are perceived as a form of control by psychiatrists towards their patients. ● [...]
Psychiatrists’ Obsession with Sex
PsychSearch Psychiatrists’ Obsession with Sex By Colin Taufer The “World’s Sexiest Psychiatrist” is not a punchline to a crude joke or the caption on a humorous cartoon. No. The World’s Sexiest Psychiatrist is the tragically accurate and infamous nickname of New Jersey psychiatrist Theodore F. Jasper, who, recently had his licence revoked for four years. Here’s another nickname for Jasper, from someone unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with him: Terrible Human Being. “Jasper is a liar!” his victim told PsychSearch. “He said I made up the story about our sexual relationship to his wife. Then he turned [...]
Psych Drugs Kill
PsychSearch Psych Drugs Kill More Than Heroin Colin Taufer Every day, politicians, the press, and the president condemn the heroin epidemic currently ravaging the country. They talk about its toll in lives lost and communities ruined. They appropriate millions for prevention, treatment recovery, and drug education. They declare it a public health emergency and proclaim their commitment to fight the scourge with the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week every September. Yet as bad as the curse of heroin is in this country, there is a much worse plague. Psychiatrists kill more Americans than heroin dealers. When he met [...]
THE “ETHICS” OF PSYCHIATRY
PsychSearch “The “Ethics” of Psychiatry By Colin Taufer What is and isn’t ethical is easily understood. While everyone may not be able to give a dictionary-perfect definition of ethics, every one of us knows fundamentally that if someone is ethical they know right from wrong and can and will act accordingly. More fundamentally, if someone is ethical they are truthful; truthful to themselves and others. They represent themselves honestly. When studying any subject to try to understand its fundamentals and what it stands for ethically, the best place to start is the name itself. “Psychiatry” comes from the mid [...]
The Most Successful Drug Dealers in History
PsychSearch.net The Most Successful Drug Dealers in History By Colin Taufer Three things today’s cops find when they bust drug dealers: cash, handguns and the psych drug Vyvanse. Just two weeks ago, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office made one of the largest drug busts in the parish’s history. The drugs confiscated had a street value of more than a million dollars. Included in the drugs seized was a batch of Vyvanse pills. It is one of the most sought after and valuable street drugs in America today. Vyvanse is lucrative not only for the pusher on the street, it [...]
A Pitchfork to the Temple
PsychSearch A Pitchfork to the Temple Colin Taufer The last memories pigs have before they are slaughtered are electrodes being attached to their heads. A moment later they are stunned with a jolt of electricity that blasts its way through their brains. This induces an epileptic seizure which renders the hog insensate, not responsive to any stimuli, and floppy. They are now ready to be butchered. This very scene of pigs being shocked into unconscious numbness on their way to the slaughterhouse was the the twisted revelation that inspired the invention of psychiatry’s most deadly legacy: shock [...]
Psychiatrists’ Dangerous Fascination with Children
PsychSearch Psychiatrists’ Dangerous Fascination with Children Colin Taufer All too often, disgraced psychiatrists make headlines around the world for their sinful deeds with children. It was his erotic interest in young boys and homosexual tendencies that fueled his child porn addiction. His collection contained about 200,000 pictures and 4000 hours of video, showing children subjected to brutal sexual abuse. He is recently jailed psychiatrist Jo Erik Broyn, single father of two surrogate children, and — I am not making this up — one of Norway’s top child-protection specialists. Then there is the unbelievable-but-true case of psychiatrist Aviel Li [...]
Psychiatry and Accountability
PsychSearch Psychiatry and Accountability Colin Taufer “Your son needs medication to control his impulsive behavior in my classroom.” These words, or some variation of them, are the ones that begin millions of our nation’s children down a destructive path filled with unfortunate consequences. One such effect, usually lost sight of, is the insidious damage such diagnoses do to the child’s sense of personal responsibility. After all, the most important people in the child’s life, his parents and teachers, have agreed that he cannot control his own behavior. They’ve concluded that self-control is not something he is [...]
TelePsychiatry
PsychSearch TelePsychiatry: Lives Ruined at a Distance Colin Taufer There was a time when psychiatric diagnosis required live face to face consultation before patients’ lives were ruined through psychiatry. Now, through modern technology, lives are also ruined at a distance with telepsychiatry: psych evaluation and drug prescription through teleconferencing. That telepsychiatry exists at all as a form of psychiatric “therapy” only highlights the broken and destructive nature of the psychiatric diagnostic process. Like all psychiatric examination, telepsychiatry diagnosis requires no blood tests, x-rays, brain scans or any other biological testing for that matter. Diagnosis is purely subjective and unscientific, full [...]
Women, Beware of Psychiatrists!
PsychSearch Women, Beware of Psychiatrists! Colin Taufer Over the last many months I have written a number of columns for PsychSearch. I’ve covered a variety of topics from brain damaging electroshock “therapy” to the horrifying reality of one million American children under the age of 5 on psychiatric drugs. After every article I receive emails from readers, most from America but others from as far as England and Australia. Interestingly, amazingly in fact, I can neatly categorize the writers of these emails into two groups. One group consists of those sending words of support for my message of bringing [...]
The Lie That Kills
PsychSearch The Lie That Kills and Makes Psychiatry Billions: Chemical Imbalance in the Brain Colin Taufer In late 2015, Mike Arens’ family was faced with the gloomy and joyless task of piecing together how their fifty-four year old son, brother, and friend was found dead in his Minnesota home. It didn’t take them long to find out how he died and who killed him. Inside Arens’ house they found hundreds of empty pill bottles, all of them prescribed by the same person, psychiatrist Faruk Abuzzahab . Abuzzahab prescribed at least eight different psychiatric drugs to Arens while at the [...]
The Facts and Lies of Electric Shock “Therapy”
PsychSearch The Facts and Lies of Electric Shock “Therapy” Colin Taufer When it comes to the art of eloquently disguising falsehoods as truth, psychiatrists have no peers. They spend billions on marketing their deadly madness, turning scientifically unsound theories and destructive “therapies” into carefully crafted ad campaigns full of soothing music, pleasant pictures, and scientific-sounding explanations. Any sane person would consider blasting electricity through the brain torture. The psychiatrist calls it therapy: Electroconvulsive Therapy, or ECT. Here is the ECT procedure as described by the American Psychiatric Association. At the time of each treatment a patient is given general anesthesia [...]
Psychiatry: Poisoning the American Mind
PsychSearch Psychiatry: Poisoning the American Mind Colin Taufer The greatest source of poisoning in America is not the pesticide DDT or lead-based paints or arsenic contaminated drinking water. It’s not contaminated food or toxic cleaning agents. The greatest source of harmful and fatal poisons in the United States is psychiatric drugs. The common denominator of every psych drug is what it does neurologically. Each one, regardless of what its manufacturer claims it does, poisons the brain, causes severe biochemical imbalances in the brain, and impairs neurotransmitter systems. They are destructive and poisonous to the nerve cells within the brain. [...]