Because mental upsets are products of thinking the individual can change his pattern of thinking and thus change his mental state. History and Philosophy are better positioned to give people solid grounding in life, hence heal mental illness. The individual can study his pattern of thinking and behavior and where they are problematic correct them.
Gradually, it dawned on me that the sin of psychology is to take away choice from people and thus make them mere robots that the environment produced. I began searching for alternatives.
Appropriately Greece of the period before Christ termed “the seed plot of the modern world,” for in it we have, in germ form, almost all that followed.
In this program, distilled from a large volume of work by historian Eugen Weber, is presented in simple yet powerful and masterful manner the background, origin and source of the ideas that governs the modern world. We have compressed and reduced to understanding what Eugen Weber presented in many of his lectures on the Western Tradition. We have done so both clarity of understanding and brevity. This is Eugen Weber himself not a voice over artist. So you get to learn from the master historian himself.
In our age psychiatry has managed to convince the general public that most mental disorders have biological roots and that their cure lie in ingesting psychotropic medications. Thus, these days if folks have any kind of mental upset, including fear (anxiety), anger, depression, paranoia, delusion, mania, schizophrenia etc. they are told that their issues are rooted in biochemical imbalances in their brains. Folks run to psychiatrists and their bodies are loaded up with medications that supposedly heal their mental disorders.
Medications, may be, for a month or so, seem to heal folk’s mental disorders but eventually folks revert to showing the symptoms that made them see themselves as mentally ill.
Typical therapy is one hour a week, for about a year or more. Therapy costs money, up to $200 to $500 an hour.
I am not asking anyone not to go see his psychiatrist and take the medications he gives to him for his supposed mental disorder. What I am saying is that if you choose to you can use non-medical interventions to heal your supposed mental disorders, or use a combination of medicinal and cognitive therapy to heal you. The choice is up to you.
I know that psychiatrists make noise to the effect that anyone who appears opposed to medications for their patients is misleading the public; it is in their financial self-interests to have people hooked on medications, but the fact is that despite their noise making they do not heal supposed mentally disordered persons. If in doubt, please just show me one person that psychiatrists and their bag of medications have healed and I will withdraw my assertions.
All that psychiatrists do is hook folks on their so-called psychotropic medications, pretty much as street drug dealers hook folks on street drugs. Folks addicted to legal and or illegal drugs will be on them for the rest of their lives until they extricate themselves from them.
Additionally, psychiatrists tell folks that they have mental disorders and collude with folks in using the idea of mental disorder as excuse not to figure out a way to think rationally.
Psychiatry is trying to make itself seen as real medicine hence psychiatrists sell to the public unproved ideas that chemical imbalances cause mental disorders and fill the people with medications that while seeming to help them cause them multiple organs damage. The era of chemicalized psychotherapy is ending.
This program is a rare gem that will help you understand the world and the people around. It will give you gravitas and aréte. It is presented a very cool style; gentle and soothing, that is what Eugen Weber us know for. Above his cool hand Weber is a genius and very weighty historian.
