Workshop Session 16: Pathocracy and Psychiatry

This session covers Chapter 7 of the book on psychology and psychiatry under pathocratic rule. We covered the following topics:

• why psychiatry and psychology are subjected to strict controls under a pathocracy

• which specific subjects are banned

• how understanding of psychopathy is blocked via an imprecise, catch-all definition

• how mediocre loyalists are given degrees as a means of monitoring and controlling the course of research

• how the problems caused by the above extend beyond politics

• the “secret war” waged between the pathocrats and the therapists just trying to do their job, and get the information necessary to do it

• how ordinary psychotherapists gain a hands-on understanding of these things over years of practice

• how a close look at banned subjects can provide important information and expose weaknesses to the pathocracy

• how does this apply in our society, where information is widely available in scientific communities and on the internet?

• how might modern pathocrats get around this weakness?

• do these dynamics apply to medical policies today?

• unchecked incompetence inevitably leads to malevolence

• the abuse of psychiatry by labelling political dissidents crazy

• abnormal people are more likely to label others as abnormal, and to do so more vehemently

• the danger of always giving the benefit of the doubt

• and more…

The next session will cover Chapter 8: “Pathocracy and Religion,” April 6, 12:30 EDT, 9:30 PDT.