okpfloyd

Psycho and proud of it!

"Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder"

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

1. creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
2. satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
3. augmenting primitive feelings of envy; rejecting the sovereignty of the individual,
subordinating him to the will of the government.

"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

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George Orwell

gorillamom

Thank God I'm a nutcase!
Remind me to never see this doctor if I get depressed.

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The Clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power,
To tell just when the hands will stop
On what day or what hour.
Now is the only time we have,
So live it with a will,
Don't wait until tomorrow,
The hands may then be still.

Jonesy

Seems it isn't a problem with liberal or conservative. Mostly, it has to do with people who enter politics in any modern form. All of them have the same kind of inferiority complex, seeing politics as the way to prove superiority.

True liberalism and conservatism are not meant to be absolute... only two sides of the same coin (a different coin for each issue), both sides to be objectively scrutinized.

lollipop

How in the world did this quack get a medical license? He's lost any credibility he had....good riddance!

Jonesy

Most psychiatrists are wrong, or incomplete. From what I can tell, it is the result of new science mixed with business and the desire to 'help' (stemming from the flawed medical philosophy known as - everything 'abnormal' is an illness of the body).

Actual liberalism is fine, when used correctly. If you say, there should be less 'government parenting', it is equally true to say there should be more individual independence.

Obviously this particular psychiatrist was either payed, or a deeply slanted individual. Expanding independence is a liberal ideology, as much as expanding dependence is the same. It all depends on the coin, and what side you see (the biased only see one side). In the same sense, contracting government parenting = expanding individual independence.

Jonesy

I was thinking about this one... i'd say this psychiatrist person is decidedly incorrect. The real cause is an incapability complex, likely stemming from over-protective parents. Which is why, someone like me, who cursed and watched porn as a child, is all for independence.

The feelings of incapability would almost definitely lead to a want for assistance, like the assistance the children received from their parents (because the person is afraid to function without this kind of assistance).

Gaia

well then, I guess I'm nuts.

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"As the clock of fate ticks away, the dance of destiny continues"

Jonesy

Psychiatrists, especially 'veterans', are typically complete dipshits. Maybe they'll correct their dumb-shit BS before they die, but you'd be better off independently confirming any info they give you.

This particular complex might actually consist of three parts: the initial sense of incapability (coming from over-protective parents/society), followed by a drive to prove capability (similar to the I/SEA complex), and a desire for assistance/protection (dependency).

Jonesy

I should add, the politician becomes the politician because they manage to exert superiority (at least, in their own minds), or exert capability (same thing) while the constituencies consist mainly of people who fail to exert 'capability' or 'superiority'.

On the capability side, exertion failure results in dependence on those you feel are capable. On the 'eriority side, it results in accepting rule by those you feel are superior.

They're both similar... when it gets bad enough, you receive communism or fascism. Capability or superiority exertion ultimately result in authoritarianism.

Jonesy

In other news, psychiatrists everywhere are ironically depressed.