Historical Facts – Psychiatry’s Influence on Education

Historical Facts – Psychiatry’s Influence on Education

1.

In 1879, German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt declared Man to be an animal, with no soul. With this, he laid the foundation for modern psychology and psychiatry.

2.

In 1865, Zurich psychiatrist Wilhelm Griesinger falsely claimed that all mental problems must be diseases of the brain. Undeterred by the absence of proof to this day, psychiatry built a multi-billion dollar empire on this false science.

3.

In the late 1800s, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was first to label and codify human behaviour as “disorders” while acknowledging that psychiatry had no effective treatments or cures.

4.

In the U.S. and elsewhere, strong and effective scholastic-based systems were compromised. Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike said phonics, multiplication tables and formal writing were “wasteful.”

5.

In the 1940s psychiatrists G. Brock Chisholm (Canada) and John Rawlings Rees (Britain), co-founders of the World Federation for Mental Health, said, psychiatrists had carried out a “useful” attack on the “teaching profession” and that the goal of “effective” therapy was the elimination of the concept of “right and wrong.”

6.

By the 1960s (and ever since), psychological programs were introduced into schools. Psychiatrists claimed that three sources of stress had to be eliminated from schools:
1) school failure
2) a curriculum centred around academics
3) disciplinary procedures.

7.

Psychologists and psychiatrists have insinuated themselves into positions of authority in the educational field and completed an almost total overthrow of the subject, turning schools from places of learning into “mental health clinics.”

8.

In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contained only three “disorders” for infants or children. By 1980, there was a nearly ten-fold increase in the number of child disorders.

9.

In 1987, “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD) was literally voted into existence by APA committee members and enshrined in the DSM. Within a year, 500,000 children in America alone were diagnosed with it.

10.

17 million schoolchildren worldwide have now been diagnosed with so-called mental disorders and prescribed cocaine-like stimulants and powerful antidepressants as treatment.

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