{"id":2634,"date":"2023-05-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:12","slug":"historical-underpinnings-of-psychiatric-medical-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/01\/historical-underpinnings-of-psychiatric-medical-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Underpinnings of Psychiatric Medical Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The evolution of mental healing from a spiritual undertaking to a brain and chemical based atrocity follows a number of historical paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One such path was carved out by &#8220;oil baron John D. Rockefeller&#8217;s &#8216;strategic philanthropy&#8217; of using the Flexner Report and his funding of Johns Hopkins University to mold medical training into a model by which he could multiply his market,&#8221; since 80 percent of pharmaceuticals are oil-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[See page 193 in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Horrors-Psychiatry-Infiltrating-Businesses\/dp\/9082177269\/ref=sr_1_1\">The Hidden Horrors of Psychiatry<\/a><\/em>, C.F. Van Der Horst, 2022 Per Veritatem Vis Foundation.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Flexner Report of 1910 by Abraham Flexner contained recommendations on the restructuring of medical education and the establishment of the biomedical model as the gold standard of medical training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[<em>Medical Education in the United States and Canada<\/em>, July 8, 1910, <em>Science<\/em>&nbsp;magazine. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3178858\/\">National Lirarary of Medicine analysis here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Report &#8220;contained recommendations requiring that medical educational institutions be funded by the big Foundations. It gave oil baron John D. Rockefeller the opportunity to steer medical education in such a way that the largely petroleum-based pharmaceuticals would play a central role and alternative medicine such as homeopathy would be barred. In writing the report, Abraham Flexner was directly coached by two Rockefeller Foundation employees.&#8221;<br \/>[See additional details in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deadly-Lies-Doctors-Patients-Deceived\/dp\/9082177277\/ref=sr_1_1\">Deadly Lies: How Doctors and Patients Are Deceived<\/a><\/em>, by C.F. van der Horst, 2023, Per Veritatem Vis Foundation.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/documentaries\/marketing-of-madness\/\">psychopharmaceutical marketing machine<\/a>&nbsp;shamelessly pushes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/truth.shtml\">psychiatric drugs<\/a>&nbsp;in spite of their known failures, leading the late Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz to say, &#8220;Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected society within the last 60 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychiatrists tell us that the way to fix unwanted behavior is by altering brain chemistry with a pill &#8212; the legacy of the Flexner Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But unlike a mainstream medical drug like insulin, psychotropic medications have no measurable target illness to correct, and can upset the very delicate balance of chemical processes the body needs to run smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, psychiatrists and drug companies have used these drugs to create a huge and lucrative market niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they&#8217;ve done this by naming more and more unwanted behaviors as &#8220;medical disorders&#8221; requiring psychiatric medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did psychotropic drugs, with no target illness, no known curative powers and a long and extensive list of side effects, become the go?to treatment for every kind of psychological distress?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And how did the psychiatrists espousing these drugs come to dominate the field of mental treatment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out by watching the Citizens Commission on Human Rights<strong>\u00ae<\/strong>&nbsp;(CCHR) Documentary &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/documentaries\/marketing-of-madness\/introduction.html\">The Marketing of Madness &#8211; Are We All Insane?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected society within the last 60 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/01\/historical-underpinnings-of-psychiatric-medical-training\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected society within the last 60 years.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[121,157,77,90],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","tag-education","tag-marketing","tag-psychiatric-drugs","tag-psychopharmaceutical-industry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-Gu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}