‘RANT’ing Out the Devil Community Traumatization & Human Transformation An Outsider Philosophy by Kathleen M. Hill ‘One million people commit suicide every year’ The World Health Organization 1 All rights reserved, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any means, electronic, mechanical, or photocopying, documentary, film, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by: Chipmunkapublishing PO Box 6872 Brentwood Essex CM13 1ZT United Kingdom http://www.chipmunkapublishing.com Proof-read by Ama Agyeman-Badu ISBN 1-904697-44-5 2 PREFACE Abusive Self-Helping Professionals who offend do so by using cognitive distortions to meet personal needs, wants and desires, to protect themselves from aversive self-awareness, and to overcome internal inhibitions against coercively engaging consumers of services into re- traumatizing activity. These offenders carefully groom their victims by systematically separating them from their families and peers, and socializing them into a life-style of extreme solitude found otherwise only on 'death row'. Offenders justify the abuse by making excuses and redefining their actions as empathy and mutuality. Throughout the process, offenders exploit the power imbalance inherent in all human service professional, provider-consumer relationships. "With abuse, you suffer loss of soul, loss of self and loss of meaning" K.W. (Survivor) from Community Retraumatization http://www.annafoundation.org/CR.html "Person memoirs are a kind of protest literature, like slave narratives or witness testimonies." Gail A. Hornstein For us systemic help and support is an exacerbation of past suffering, by an extenuation of that pain into our present. Abuse in therapy dissociates the exposed, humiliated victim's ideology of spiritual inviolability and sacredness of personal humanity, while enhancing the fantasy of merger with an idealized savior. The betrayal to healing that is offered in psychological assault is an ultimate act of perverted intimacy. The victim's outrage preserves the veracity of our unconscionable and incomprehensible betrayals. For the victim, mental ‘health’ professionals are neither safe nor credible anymore! (Based on Sam Vaknin's "Psychology of Torture" a chapter of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" (Narcissus Publications, 2003) http://www.narcissistic- abuse.com/torturepsychology.html 3 DEDICATION If I am being euphoric, I am clearly joyous: I am NOT manic. If I imagine a more potent self, I am being self-determining: I am NOT psychotic. If I am sorrowing and sleep a lot, I am plainly grieving: I am NOT oppressed. If I don’t involve myself with people, I am prudent with forethought: I am NOT phobic. If I am expressive of my opinions, I am patently assertive: I am NOT aggressive. If I don’t like something and state it, I am without guile: I am NOT difficult. If I am tempestuous, I am manifestly angry: I am NOT dangerous. If I show an exaggerated response, I am evidently sensitive: I am NOT out-of-control. If I am as reclusive as a hermit, I am taking care of myself: I am NOT isolating myself. If I enjoy being extroverted, I am unmistakably at ease with others: I am NOT being inappropriate. If I am working long hours, I am obviously involved with my work: I am NOT obsessive-compulsive. If I express irritation with someone, I am timeworn by selfsame: I am NOT withdrawn and avoiding. If I prefer to hold counsel with myself, I am cautiously self-protective: I am NOT paranoid. For all of the above reasons, I do NOT require drugs. And neither do you! Katie Hill, August 2004 (NISA) http://www.nisa.on.ca/ Background: http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf Stop the Violence: TEEN SCREEN http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html 4 Nemesis: Daughter of Night; Daughter of Moral Conscience Originally an abstraction of righteous indignation against evil, in Greek mythology this idea was personified as the winged goddess of retributive justice, righteous anger, divine vengeance, and usually a victorious rival. She inflicted the justice of the gods on the proud and those who flaunted the law avenging those who were wronged. Her anger is directed toward human transgressions of the natural, right order of things and the hubris behind it. Nemesis pursues the insolent and the wicked with inflexible vengeance. Her cult is thought to have originated from Smyrna. She is also considered to have been the mother of Helene after impregnation during her rape by Zeus. Based on http://ww.theoi.com Debwewin is an eastern Ojibwa word which translates into “truth” in English, but which literally means “speaking from the heart”. Truth is one of the Seven Grandfather Teachings of the Anishinabek people. To me 'speaking from the heart' is 'feeling-thought' or 'reason' vs. logic. Truth is accuracy in holistic understanding that implies fairness i.e. balance in context. Universal Rationalism: Insanity in its various forms is now universally admitted to be a Disease … and therefore to be viewed in the same light and treated on the same principles as those which regulate medical practice in other branches … and the more rational idea prevails… James F. Duncan, 1875 President’s Address, Journal of Mental Science 21, 316 ”Change and healing comes not so much from abstract intellect as from embodied experience.” (Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity by John Breeding) What Is A Rant? Rants are pain forms of communicating experienced knowledge. A rant is like life's poetry set to lyric. Rants speak of participatory learning in anguish, despair, torment, and outrage BUT the listener is half- way through reading before we wake up to the educating of what is being communicated. Rants carry us along waves of feeling-thought--to reason—peaking the extremes of aversive emotion-- without turning away! "Psychology, whose righteous task it is to free man (humanity) to grow in wisdom and experience sacred pleasure has increasingly sought instead to subdue him (us) to efficient social routines. To implement the goals of the state it serves through control of the apparatus of conditioning, psychology has become more and more a science of social control. Through the administration of a value system based upon reward and punishment, it has served to curb man's (our) impulse toward freedom and pleasure. The major technical problem is: how to keep the rat from freaking out in the conditioning cage. Timothy Leary, 1973" (Parenthesis mine) 5 TABLE of CONTENTS Pag Chapter e ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 170 PREFACE 2 DEDICATION 3 AUTHOR'S NOTE 4 LIST OF ARTWORK & ARTISTS (See References Art & Artists) 132 CHAPTERS CHAPTER 1 – Introduction (DCPF-A-I) 12 Systemic Control: Psychiatric Repression 14 The Mental 'illness' in Mental 'health' 15 Sensory Perception and Metaphoric Understanding 19 CHAPTER 2 – Method Community Traumatization/Victimization 22 Anecdotal Rhetoric: The Reality 25 Psychology of Abuse in Therapy 26 Psychosocial Disability: A Community Traumatization 28 Nature's Covenant 29 An Open Letter to My Daughter 33 Wolf -- Moral Judgments 39 Mindful Memory and Human Transformation 41 Asylum, Haven, Refuge, Sanctuary 45 CHAPTER 3 – Results Anti Psychiatry Activism 48 Bio Psychiatry and 'Brain' Scans 48 Cannon Fodder 50 Case Study/Clinical History 52 Empathy-Streaming 54 CHAPTER 4 – Discussion Redefining Our Terms 58 Psychiatry Is a Pseudo Science and a Criminal Fraud 61 The Battered Mental Person - A Different Perspective 63 Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome 64 Eugenics of Productivity 66 Hobbit Science 67 Investigating Just How Real – Reality Is 69 Laissez-Faire - Corporatism Unfettered Is Fascism 72 Iatrogenic ‘mental illness’: Psychiatric C/S/X Advocate 75 Socially acceptable: A Toxic Shock Syndrome 78 6 Truth and Reconciliation: Amends & Reparations 82 Resistance to Change: Self-Defeating Behavior 82 Community Traumatization/Victimization: An Example 84 Trauma Therapy: Iatrogenic ‘Disease’ Progression 84 Integrity and Wounds of Deception and Betrayal 86 Bad Premise 88 Creating ‘health’ vs. Destroying Disease 90 Dark History: Persecution & Cover-Up 91 Evidence 92 Junk Science: Society’s ‘Pontius Pilate’ 93 Necrosis 94 Political Prisoners, The Mentally ‘Ill’ & Abolitionists 95 Saviors of Civilization 97 Self-Reliance 97 Self-Identity: ‘Sense of Self’ 99 Therapeutic Jurisprudence 102 APPENDICIES APPENDIX A - ARTIST PLATES 105 APPENDIX B - POETRY by Kathleen (Katie) M. Hill 106 APPENDIX C – DS-n-SP-CAF™ 113 APPENDIX D - Resume: Kathleen (Katie) M. Hill (1994--2003) 119 REFERENCES 132 ABSTRACT 133 Autobiographical Statement 133 A Condensed Model Consent Form 134 DS-n-SP-CAF™ Statement 135 ADDENDUM Community Traumatization & Youth Oppression 138 In the Spirit of Tim Berners Lee 145 En Masse Experimentation-Therapeutic State-Psychiatrized Genocide 146 SUMMARY Ode to ‘MAN’ 163 Imprisoning 165 Universal Declaration of Mental Rights & Freedoms 169 REVIEW: The Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity 171 (Psychiatric Oppression or Human Transformation) THAT BLOGGING THING -- See Page 226 -- for Updates Oppression Advances: Resolving Integrity 174 Open Letter -- Ontario Works Harassment 179 Open Letter: Ontarians with Disability Act 2001 183 (Open Letter: Ontarians With Disability Act; Speaking to the Issues) 190 7 AUTHOR’S NOTE The target of what concerns me in this book is not clarification of who and what I am, but who and what we are. Considering the diversity of humanity - it's an impossible, but do-able effort. My purpose in writing is to clarify what is meant, but rarely said, in our speaking. I write with holistic thought patterns, because it is how I think! I became c/s/x and anti-psychiatry in celebration of my understanding of the age-old saying, 'We are greater than the sum of our parts'. Human consciousness is the indefinable, non-physical, yet existent thing, that is a product of, but yet greater than the sum of our parts. It therefore follows that human consciousness is - in and of itself - spirituality. Technically, I research into a part and then apply discovery to the whole, evolving environmental concepts and principles that define and characterize an understanding of the whole.