Religion was rightly criticised for exploiting vulnerable people and gaining power over them for venal ends but it was duly supplanted by another system of control and manipulation no less pernicious and harmful namely psychiatry which has its own shiboleths and dogmas and uses similar techniques to gain ascendancy over the minds of its hapless followers who are duly subjugated under its malign thrall to a helpless state of dependency.
More sinister than religion psychiatry resorts to drugs to ostensibly 'cure' the patient but of course the only result is a catastrophic destruction of sensibility and cognitive integrity.The father of this chemical tyranny was the arch mountebank and fraud Sigmund Freud and his pseudo scientific psychoanalysis.
A drug addict himself and a nihilist he concocted a bogus pseudo academic theory and soon created a cult following for millions who were only too happy to discard religious superstition for the enlightened Freudian substitute with its emphasis on sexual liberation and analysis of the unconscious.With a marked lack of scientific rigour Freud turned out volumes of turgid prose sprinkled with classical references to lend it a scintilla of authenticity and a whole industry of psychotherapy was born.
Depression is an industry,every other person is diagnosed with it and the drug companies are in clover.Except of course that it has to be proven that such a condition exists.Unhapiness is pathologised but it may just be part of the human condition.For religion to be rejected is a welcome development.For it to be replaced by a superstitious pseudo science with all the worst characteristics of a religion is something akin to a tragedy.
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