Minorities have always been a threat to the manipulation of the majority by vested interests. Freedom movements hallmarked by the Magna Charta and the Constitutions of the Western World have been countered by moneyed vested interests in league with psychology and psychiatry which have as a goal the identification and control of minority deviant thought. Whew! Could a psych be smart enough to know he was doing that?

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A psych ethics committee taking up behavior of shrinks toward their patients is like a committee of foxes reviewing the conduct of foxes in chicken coops.

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A top advertising executive on Madison Avenue had noticed over the years that whenever he let his subordinates use solely psychology based advertising techniques, the ad campaign was likely to fail except when it was saved by some bright idea entirely disrelated to that "science." After one horrendous failure of a major campaign and threatened loss of the agency's largest client, the exec decided to take a vacation. Following his wife into a curio shop in their seaside vacation spot, the executive spotted a remarkably lifelike statue of a wino. He bought it on a lark, but upon exiting the shop he was immediately accosted by what seemed to be all the winos and bums in the town. They all wanted to touch the statue, and when they did, the most wondrous thing happened: one after one of them swore to get a job and do something worthwhile in life. Being a bright idea man, he went back to the curio shop and found out the name of the local sculptor who had produced the statue. The executive found the sculptor, and after a bit of bargaining, the local artist agree to produce a statue of a psych.

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Psychology and psychiatry are mental pollution. Help clean up the environment.

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Although a lawyer, St. Ives, was promoted to sainthood, no shrink has achieved that honor.

Lawrence Wiley, List owner, Copyright (c) 1998

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