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1245 days ago
The Hippocratic Oath is now available for download. Feel free to download and share. I am releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. (see below) That means you can download and share the film free for noncommercial use, so long as you credit me. You can also make derivative works, so long as they credit me, are also noncommercial, and also freely distributed. If you want to use the film for any commerical purpose, feel free to write me and ask permission. You can write me at aubrey@psychiatricharm.com. Peace, Aubrey Stremaing links: Main MSN Video Link: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=bd787c71-190c-4c79-be26-62d20d23bf4d&f=&fg=copy Google Video Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7970936378356767607 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wmd3Ehsfa4 Download links: RealMedia (5M): ...1280 days ago
Welcome. I trust you are here because you’re interested in the issue I have put forth. That is the issue of human rights abuses in the psychiatric system, especially those involving children. Yes, they still happen today. Some are illegal, like forcing a child to shower in poo. Nonetheless, things like that still happen. Others are legal, or nearly so. Restraining kids is still used as a punishment technique, in some facilities, for example. That remains legal until someone dies, like happened at Cleo Wallace in Denver, in 2003. Then, a few administrative measures are put in place and life goes on. (Other human rights abuses, like involuntary medication, are specifically supported by the law. That is an issue for another blog post.) Instances of child abuse happen separately and independently all over the country, indeed the world, even where supposed supervision of facilities exists. One must ask why all these instances of child abuse ...
1280 days ago
“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” -- William Saroyan Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. Part One: Life XI MUCH madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. “It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.” ...
1280 days ago
My philosophy is actually quite simple. I believe in the sanctity of the human will. The will is an intrinsic part of being human - of being sentient. (And, yes, even a crazy person has a will, with desires a lot more valid than some folks, like Dr. Fuller Torrey, would let on.) If the will is the most basic part of being human, then the greatest sin is to override it. All true crimes and abuses flow forth from the violation of the will of another. Thus, all forms of force and coercion are wrong. A person has a right to choose her own fate and how she lives her life. That simple. Any breach of this - whether personal, social, or institutional - is a crime against the human spirit itself.
