On December 14, 2012 a disturbed young man, Adam Lanza, invaded the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and shot and killed 20 students aged 6 and 7 and six adults before killing himself as police responded to the shooting. Prior to going to the school, 20-year- old Lanza had shot and killed his 52-year-old mother Nancy Lanza. The media blamed this horrible tragedy on the easy availability of semi-automatic weapons. The actual culprit in this senseless loss of innocent human life was a fraudulent psychology "professional," Bruno Bettelheim. Bruno Bettelheim was the recognized "expert" on the mental disorder of autism for decades. According to Bruno Bettelheim, autism was caused by what came to be known as the "refrigerator mother" who had failed to bond with her autistic child. In order to "bond" with Adam Lanza, his gun enthusiast mother, Nancy Lanza, took her autistic son Adam to shooting ranges to fire semi-automatic assault rifles. To get a quick sense of just who this Bruno Bettelheim was and what had led him to blame autism on "refrigerator mothers," I have included a short article below.  I will now take you through the disgraceful and damaging activities of Bruno Bettelheim in more detail. The Creation of Dr. B, by Richard Pollak would be a good starting point for anyone wishing to examine the crimes of Bruno Bettelheim in greater detail. In the Sandy Hook tragedy Nancy Lanza was following the old wives tales about autism that Bruno Bettelheim had made popular and that some misguided individual still believe to this day. Such is the hold that psychology has on what one would consider to be "intelligent people." Mention the name Sigmund Freud and it is as if one had cited a god-like figure. Two other pages on this website, The Real Nature of Psychology and Death by Psychology, document how Americans have been drawn into a cult-like belief in psychology. Bruno Bettelheim had no training in medicine or science. What Bettelheim did study was the history of art. Included in this course of study were a few courses of how the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung affected art. Bruno Bettelheim managed to convert this limited, peripheral information into a fraudulent career as a psychiatrist. Bruno Bettelheim did no scientific research. He did not carry out any scientific studies to determine if what he was saying was factual. Instead he, like Sigmund Freud, considered himself to the perfect scientific sample of one. His theory of autism, which the entire world came to depend upon, was an invention coming from the sick and twisted mind of Bruno Bettelheim. You might ask, how could this have happened? People, Americans in particular, had become enthralled with Sigmund Freud in the Victorian Era. He talked about sex and people just ate this up. He convinced people that they had a hidden being within them, the subconscious mind. People ate this up too. The problem is, Sigmund Freud made a colossal mistake while studying with Jean Charcot in Paris in 1885. In Freud's day epilepsy was an unknown disorder in that it was not known what caused people to have epileptic fits. These fits often occurred after a head injury. Sigmund Freud thought that a hidden person was attempting emerge, the subconscious. It was not until the 1940s that epilepsy was diagnosed as a physical disorder caused by small lesions in the brain that were too small for the inferior microscopes of Freud's day to detect. But the romance of Sigmund Freud and all that talk about sex had taken hold in the public's imagination. The world became saddled with all the crackpot theories that Sigmund Freud invented from his initial mistake. Freud promised that studies would follow to prove his theories. No such studies were ever carried out. When Bruno Bettelheim came along, the public was willing to believe anything coming from an individual claiming to be a psychiatrist, which Bruno Bettelheim was not. Bruno Bettelheim infected people with his bogus theory about autism. Nancy Lanza believed this false information and tried to "bond" with her mentally deranged son by teaching him how to shoot an assault rifle. The result was that Bruno Bettelheim was able to carry out mass murder from his grave. Bruno Bettelheim was an ignorant, cruel, twisted crazy person who abused his young victims for fame and financial gain. The problem is that, in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, Bruno Bettelheim appears to be the rule rather than the exception. On page 48 of the book by Martin Gross, The Psychological Society, Dr. Allen Bergin, editor of the Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior, says, "Generally the people who go into psychology and psychiatry are more anxious and appear to be neurotic. Some therapists are using their careers to act out conflicts within their own personalities." On page 46 of that same book we have this: "Dr. Walter Freeman reports on a study he did of suicide among psychiatrists. 'The rate of suicide among psychiatrists is seven times that of the general population. Some believe that the high suicide rate is due to the emotional pressures of the job. Others think it has a simpler cause; a case of the unstable seeking out psychiatry as a profession'." Bruno Bettelheim ended his life by committing suicide. James Holmes, the nut case that shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012, killing 12 and wounding 58 was studying to be a clinical psychologist. The chief god of those enamored with psychology, mainly liberals and hippie types, Sigmund Freud, fares even worse when his life is examined in detail. On page 246 of his book The Psychological Society Martin Gross says this: "We should pose one thought. What if Freud had not suffered from near-continuous depressive moods, spastic colon, neurasthenia, homosexual tendencies, bad temper, migraines, chronic constipation, travel phobias, death fears, heart irregularity, money phobias, infected sinuses (from snorting cocaine), fainting spells, and hostile drives of hate and murder? Would the modern theory of the mind have been more sanguine? What if Freud had not been the victim of superstition, belief in magic numbers and childish gullibility? Would psychiatry and psychotherapy today reflect the influence of a more scientific and reasoned approach to the human mind? The Freudian neurosis has infiltrated our psyches and our culture more deeply than we yet understand. If we recognize that much of it is a reflection of Freud himself...it might help us to free ourselves from its pervasive influence." Real science has shown that autism is a physical brain disorder that is not caused in any way by parental influence. Psychologists also said that Adam Lanza was suffering from "Asperger's Syndrome." The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, is due out in a new version on May 22, 2013. In that manual "Asperger's Syndrome" has been eliminated as a separate condition and included under "higher functioning autistic patients." The DSM-5 is a cookbook used by psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists to invent various conditions they claim to observe. According to these "professionals," 80% of all people are in need of psychotherapy and 20% of all children can be diagnosed with some mental disorder. Really? Because psychotherapy is almost always ineffective, psychologists and psychiatrists have seized upon the use of psychiatric drugs to maintain their status within American society as the persons who know all and can cure everything. "Depression" is the new money-maker for these modern fakirs, but is there really an illness that psychologists and psychiatrists call "depression?" The following is from page 6 of the book by Martin Gross, The Psychological Society: "The semantic trick is equating happiness with normality. By permitting this, we have given up our simple right to be both 'normal and suffering' at the same time. Instead we have massively redefined ourselves as 'neurotic' and even incipient mental cases, particularly when life plays its negative tricks on us. It is a tendency which gives modern America, and increasingly much of the Western world, the tone of a giant psychiatric clinic." Copyright © 2013 by Paul Roebling |
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