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Dear Friend,
Welcome to the April 2007 issue of the new-and-improved
Psychology Debunked newsletter!
When God allowed the
Assyrians to take Israel's northern kingdom captive in
722 B.C. and the southern kingdom (Judah) captive in 586
B.C. for their persistent idolatry, the Israelites
hadn't completely abandoned their traditional temple
worship. Rather, they had engaged in continual "dual"
worship: worship in the temple of the Lord God of
Israel, and worship at the high places of the various
pagan dieties. God warned them about keeping to the
commandments of the Word of God, but their response was
one of stubbornness:
"Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their
necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not
believe in the Lord their God... they followed idols,
and become idolaters, and went after the nations who
were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had
charged them that they should not do like them." 2 Kings
17:14,15
The dual worship of God and the worldly idols around
them brought God's judgment. The Israel of old is a
warning to the church of today. We must beware of
"Christian" psychology that amounts to worship of God +
the worldly idols of self, philosophy and biological
determinism. May we hear the Lord and not stiffen our
necks to His glorious, simple truth: a relationship with
God through Jesus Christ is more than enough for living
the blessed life that God has for us.
Talk therapists and mind
pills are two idols of today that Satan is using to move
our focus away from the living God. This month, Pastor
Ken Scribner discusses one such talk therapy, Recovered
Memory Therapy.
In the news, lawsuits
soar against drug companies lying about the side effects
of their antipsychotic medications; the UK considers
mental health screening for crime; depressive
disorder gets a reality check; and a no-additive food
experiment in Australia gets kids behaving well.
Finally, don't miss a
letter we received from a reader who implemented a
biblical and time-tested approach with her autistic
child, and got amazing results.
In Christ alone,
Lisa and Ryan Bazler
Lilly shareholders sue
for non-disclosure of Zyprexa risks
Shareholders of the drug giant Eli Lilly have filed a
class-action lawsuit against the company for not
disclosing the life-threatening risks of the
antipsychotic Zyprexa--risks the company knew about for
more than a decade but hid from doctors, the FDA, the
public, and their shareholders. more
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Antipsychotic drug
manufacturers in hot water as litigation skyrockets
Many state and federal governments are suing
antipsychotic drug manufacturers, including Eli Lilly,
Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Janssen, AstraZeneca, and
Bristol-Myers Squibb, for not disclosing the risks of
their drugs used in state- and federal-run programs
(schools, prisons, foster cares, Medicare/Medicaid,
etc.). This web page lists the many state and federal
lawsuits filed just in the last few months. more
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Mentally ill die 25
years younger, study says
President Bush's 2002 New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health said our mental health system is "in shambles,"
and a new SAMHSA study proves it. The study concluded
that seriously mentally ill persons die 25 years younger
than the rest of the population. The primary reasons for
the 25 year disparity? Suicide, obesity, high blood
pressure, diabetes, stroke, chronic heart disease, and
heart attack--suspiciously the same side effects of SSRI
antidepressants, antipsychotics, and ADHD drugs. The
study states, "disparity in length of life appears to be
worse in 2006 than in 1986," the same period the
blockbuster SSRI antidepressants, antipsychotics and
ADHD drugs flooded the market. more
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UK Blair Justice Plan to
screen children for crime risk
Tony Blair's new Justice Plan seeks to begin "early
intervention" for children to assess crime risk.
Children are screened based on their parents' drug and
crime history and through mental health and DNA tests,
and "treated" through the mental health system. This is
Teenscreen at a whole new level--biological determinism
run amuck. more
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NYU: 25% of depression
diagnoses are really normal life experiences
This New York University study from the Archives of
General Psychiatry says 25% of depression diagnoses are
really just the result of normal life experiences, like
job loss, investment loss, divorce, or unwanted
re-location. The authors say the DSM needs to be revised
to include these depression triggers. This study should
discourage knee-jerk depression labeling and drug
prescribing by doctors when life hits their patients
with inevitable suffering. more
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Food additives cause
aggressive behavior in children
The food children eat can have a direct impact on their
behavior and school performance. When this Australia
school went additive-free for two weeks, everyone was
amazed with the results. more
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Recovered Memory Therapy
- a pastor's perspective
Millions have been affected by false memories of sexual
abuse created by therapists during "recovered memory
therapy," or RMT, including Ken Scribner, whose marriage
and pastoral ministry were destroyed by allegations of
sexual abuse in his wife's family. While acknowledging
that real cases of sexual abuse exist--even in the
church--his article clearly explains the spiritual and
familial dangers of RMT. more
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Read more about RMT
here.
Q&A
This pastor asks, "Do you have any information about the
book Healing for Damaged Emotions by David
Seamands?" See our answer
here.
Letters
This godly mother of a 9-year-old
autistic daughter took her daughter from screaming,
sensory problems and head-banging to a child who now
appears almost completely normal. How did she do it?
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Notable Quotes |
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely
exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be
better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The
robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for
our own good will torment us without end
for they do so with the approval of
their own conscience ... Their very
kindness stings with intolerable insult.
To be "cured" against one's will and
cured of states which we may not regard
as disease is to be put on a level with
those who have not yet reached the age
of reason."
--C.S. Lewis
"DSM-IV is the
fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks
acceptance by medicine in general.
Insiders know it is more a political
than scientific document. To its credit
it says so--although its brief apologia
is rarely noted. DSM-IV has become a
bible and a money making best seller-its
major failings notwithstanding. It
confines and defines practice, some take
it seriously, others more realistically.
It is the way to get paid. Diagnostic
reliability is easy to attain for
research projects. The issue is what do
the categories tell us? Do they in fact
accurately represent the person with a
problem? They don't, and can't, because
there are no external validating
criteria for psychiatric diagnoses.
There is neither a blood test nor
specific anatomic lesions for any major
psychiatric disorder. So, where are we?
The American Psychiatric Association as
an organization has implicitly
(sometimes explicitly as well) bought
into a theoretical hoax.Is psychiatry a
hoax-- as practiced today?
Unfortunately, the answer is mostly
yes."
--Loren R. Mosher, M.D., former Chief of
the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia,
National Institutes of Mental Health
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