Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

Due to such a state of affairs, the most mediocre or privileged

of physicians become a psychiatrist after a course of study

lasting only weeks. This opens the door of psychiatric careers

to individuals who are by nature inclined to serving the

pathocratic authority, and it has fateful repercussions upon the

level of the treatment. It later permits psychiatry to be abused

for purposes for which it should never be used.114

113 Based on many reports of the past 5 years, it seems that the United States

is well on its way to having a similar system. In fact, careful analysis indi-

cates that such a system has been in place for some time now. [Editor’s note.]

114 In Ukraine brain surgery is being performed on schizophrenics. “Ukraine

is confronted with a lack of money, which means no money to buy medi-

cines, so they look for alternative methods of treatment. Then there are psy-

chiatrists in Dnepropetrovsk who think: suppose we cut away a piece of

brain, then we can get rid of schizophrenia cheaply.’ Van Voren imagines

what they might think: ‘Maybe we’ll even get the Nobel prize! One can never

know!.’

“ ‘On the other hand’, he continues, ‘they know just as well that this kind of

operation is not really accepted. So these schizophrenics become supposedly

epileptic, since in extreme cases of epilepsy surgery might be performed.

Under this pretext they cut away pieces of brain.’ The Institute of Neurosur-

gery in Kiev goes even further: there, brain tissue of aborted embryos is

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Since they are undereducated, these psychologists then

prove helpless in the face of many human problems, especially

in cases where detailed knowledge is needed. Such knowledge

must then be acquired on one’s own, a feat not everyone is able

to manage.

Such behavior carries in its wake a good deal of damage

and human injustice in areas of life which have nothing what-

soever to do with politics. Unfortunately, however, such behav-

ior is necessary from the pathocrat’s point of view in order to

prevent these dangerous sciences from jeopardizing the exis-

tence of a system they consider the best of all possible worlds.

Specialists in the areas of psychology and psychopathology

would find an analysis of this system of prohibitions and rec-

ommendations to be highly interesting. This makes it possible

implanted in the brains of mentally disabled people. ‘They say they can cure

disabled people that way. Of course nothing happens or their situation even

worsens, but they ask thousands of dollars for it.’

“In Ukrainian psychiatry insulin is being used as a tranquillizer, i.e. it is

administered in such doses, that the patient lapses into a coma. ‘A kill or cure

remedy. It is being applied in high doses, while diabetics are dying because

there is not enough insulin. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.’ He continues:

‘Electroshocks, on large scale.’ In the Central Psychiatric Institution in Kiev

they are given a dozen a time, without anaesthesia or muscle-relaxant drugs.

Once patients have been given a clean bill of health, they can get another

dozen of shocks on the day of departure: ‘something like a severance pay.

And all of this is happening now’, concludes Van Voren, ‘it is happening

today, at this very moment.’

“In Russian newspapers one can freely write about the political abuse of

psychiatry. But officially the doctrine of Snezhnevsky was never revoked.

Most psychiatrists in Moscow still even believe in it. ‘As a consequence, no

structural change is possible in Moscow. Even now people who hold a posi-

tion at one of those institutes and who want to talk in public about the abuse

of psychiatry are being told that they should better shut up or find themselves

a job elsewhere. This way much of the old power is maintained.’

“Under the pretext of ‘progressing schizophrenia’ dissidentss are still being

locked up in the former Soviet Union, but mainly in the provinces and it is

not so ‘easy’ to do anymore, says Van Voren.

People who are unwelcome to the local authorities might land in an institu-

tion, but nowadays there are organisations for human rights and media who

can get them out. In Turkmenistan it still happens officially. ‘That is a mu-

seum of the old Stalinist Soviet Union and there the theory has been re-

stored.’” “A Mess in Psychiatry”, an interview with Robert van Voren, Gen-

eral Secretary of Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch

newspaper De Volkskrant on August 9, 1997.[Editor’s note.]

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to realize that this may be one of the roads via which we can

reach the crux of the matter or the nature of this macrosocial

phenomenon. The prohibitions engulf depth psychology, the

analysis of the human instinctive substratum, together with