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somatic or psychodynamic). Veterans who learned the TM tech- actually, and in fact do, have counterproductive results. Further, nique improved significantly on psychological and social mea- the study done where an actor was hired and spoke from a script sures, including reduced anxiety, depression, insomnia and alco- designed to portray a normal man, and where the overwhelming hol abuse, whereas the participants in psychotherapy did not majority of mental health experts found pathology in the man's improve. The TM participants also exhibited a more rapid physi- behaviour where none existed, suggests that those engaged in that ological recovery from stressful stimuli in forms of habituation of profession presume that pathology exists even in the absence of the skin resistance response.“ supporting evidence. In another study, conducted over a 12-month period, maximum- Then, there is the further evidence of the DSM, where the num- security prisoners practising TM were compared to prisoners ber of mental illnesses increases with every edition and all manner undergoing four other treatment modalities including psychologi- of behaviour once accepted as normal (for example, snoring) is cal counselling, a drug abuse treatment program and 21 personal now described as mental illness. This further suggests that psy- development programs. The TM chiatry is a discipline which is simply group improved significantly on mea- drumming up business for itself. This sures of self-development and reduced should lead to people questioning the pathological symptoms, whereas none i i bona fides of psychiatry. of the four other treatment groups Most disturbing of all Most disturbing of all is the changed significantly when compared is the knowledge that you or | knowledge that psychiatry is rarely to controls. Over a three-and-a-half- could lose our human rights, correct in predicting dangerous year period, the recidivism rate (that behaviour, and yet you or I could lose is, re-offending and returning to based on the say-SO of a our human rights, based on the say-so prison) was significantly lower in the . . of a profession with almost no TM group than in the other four profession with almost no scientific foundation! groups. scientific foundation! It appears that both psychiatry and psychology are indeed shrinking from CONCLUSION the truth. oo If you do exhibit unusual behaviour or have been diagnosed as "mentally About the Author: ill", then you should be very careful to note that the discipline that _ Rochelle Macredie holds degrees in Arts, Science and Law and has so pronounced you is not a science, nor can it produce a cure _used to practise criminal law within the New South Wales public for your condition. The best it can offer is years or possibly a life sector. She advocates Transcendental Meditation—not psy- on psychotropic drugs which have dreadful side-effects, or it can Chotherapy—as a speedy and beneficial way to overcome the give you brain damage in the name of bringing about temporary problems and stresses of life. relief to your depression. You have nothing to lose by trying treatments such as transcendental meditation or Maharishi Contact Details for Further Information: sp , de + Mental Health Advocacy Service: 74 Burwood Road, Burwood, Ayurveda; at least if they don't cure you, they won't kill you. NSW 2134, Australia, telephone +61 (0)2 9745 4277. Further, psychiatry and drug therapy are self-perpetuating. + Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): E-mail human- A word of caution should also be sounded in relation to the rights@cchr.org; Sydney office, tel (02) 9264 5893, fax (02) 9261 non-drug therapies. The so-called "talking" therapies are no more 2840, e-mail cchr@dbworld.net.au. For contact details of the effective or scientifically based than drug therapy or ECT. As we CCHR internationally, we suggest you visit their website at have seen in the study conducted by McCord, such therapies can _http://www.cchr.org. Most disturbing of all is the knowledge that you or | could lose our human rights, based on the say-so of a profession | with almost no ~ lat it Contact Details for Further Information: + Mental Health Advocacy Service: 74 Burwood Road, Burwood, NSW 2134, Australia, telephone +61 (0)2 9745 4277. + Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): E-mail human- tights@cchr.org; Sydney office, tel (02) 9264 5893, fax (02) 9261 2840, e-mail cchr@dbworld.net.au. For contact details of the CCHR internationally, we suggest you visit their website at http://www.cchr.org. Endnotes (cont.) Psychology, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 66. Lancet, November 1946; as reported in New York, p. 587; as reported in 75. op. cit., p. 61. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 137. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 36. 76. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 357. 37. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 138. . ibid. 59. Ennis, B. J., Prisoners of Psychiatry: 77. ibid. 38. Citizens Commission on Human 49. ibid. Mental Patients, Psychiatry and the 78. op. cit., p. 359. Rights (CCHR), "Psychiatry Destroys 51. Menninger, K., "The Course of Law, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New 79. ibid. Minds", booklet, CCHR, California, Illness", Menninger Clinic Bulletin, vol. York, 1972, p. 227; as reported in 80. op. cit., pp. 359-360. 1997, p. 8. 25, no. 5, September 1961; as reported Wiseman, op. cit., p. 241. 81. op. cit., p. 359. 39. ibid. in Wiseman, op. cit., p. 37. 60. ibid. 82. op. cit., pp. 359-360. 40. Coleman, L., from Tame, A., 52. Boffey, P. M., "Schizophrenia: 61. McCord, J.,"A Thirty-Year Follow- 3° op cit., p. 360. "Shock Treatment", Penthouse, 1987. Insights Fail to Halt Rising Toll”, New Up of Treatment Effects", American 84. Brooks, J. 8. and Scarano, | 41. Coleman, L., from Introduction, York Times, March 16, 1986, pp. 1, Psychologist, March 1978; as quoted in "Transcendental Meditation in the Case Against ECT, CCHR, Los Angeles, 32. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 35. Treatment of Post-Vietnam Rs E as quoted in Wiseman, op. cit.,p. 53. Peele, S., Diseasing of America, 62. McCord, J., "A Thirty-Year Follow- Adjustment", Journal of Counsellin Lexington Books, 1989, p. 16; as Up: Counselling Fails", Science News, tn sel : 1, vol. 65, 1985 8 ne ‘CCHR, "What They Don't Tell You reported in Wiseman, op. cit. p.38. November 28, 1977; as quoted in 212 O15. (PTE TOES WEES) FD About Psychiatric Drugs", Creating 54. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 38. Wiseman, ibid. 85 “Al vander, C. N.,"E Racism: Psychiatry's Betrayal, Los 55. "Schizophrenia", Diagnostic and 63. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 349. Devel exan he BI lie, d Angeles, p. 12. Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 64. ibid. Ras eT *h ersonal i ye 43. Workman, D. G. and Third Edition, Revised (DSM-III-R), 65. op. cit., pp. 349-350. }ehavioural Change in Inmates Cunningham, D. G., "Effects of American Psychiatric Association, 66. op. cit., p. 350. Practising the Transcendental Psychotropic Drugs on Aggression ina Washington, DC, 1987, p. 191. 67. ibid. Meditation Technique or Participating Prison Setting", Canadian Family 56. "Schizophrenia", Diagnostic and 68. op. cit., p. 351. in Other Programs: A Cross-Sectional Physician, November 1975, pp. 63-66; — Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 69. ibid. and Longitudinal Study , Dissertation as quoted in CCHR, Creating Racism: Third Edition (DSM-III), American 70. ibid. Abstracts International 43:539B, 1982; Psychiatry's Betrayal, op. cit. Psychiatric Association, Washington, 71. op. cit., p. 353. and also Abrams, A. and Siegel, L. M., 44. Lusetich, Robert, "Do worry, be DC, 1980, p. 185. 72. op. cit., p. 355. "The Transcendental Meditation unhappy...depress the panic buttonon 57. Wiseman, op. cit., p. 38. 73. op. cit., p. 357. Program and Rehabilitation in Falsom Prozac", The Australian, 1 December 58. Connell, J. V., Understanding 74. The Encyclopedia of Insanity, vol. State Prison: A Cross-Variation Study", 1997. Human Behavior: An Introduction to 294, no. 1761, February 1997, pp.61- Justice and Behaviour 5:3-20, 1978. NEXUS - 33 scientific foundation! DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000