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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand 8 The UTAH Page Independent September 20, 1973 insr appointed to its board of directors Dr. Thomas Perry, who had been identified in sworn testimony by a number of witnesses as a member of the Communist Parfy, and who took the Fifth Amendment when questioned concerning his Communist Party membership and activities. Dr. Ralph Gundlach is a practicing psychologist who has specialized in treating children. He maintains his professional offices in New York City, and is a consultant at childrens mental health clinics. .The 1948 Report of the g Joint Legislative Committee on Activities of the State of Washington established that he was several times identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party. Dr. Gundlach was reported as having been discharged from the University of Washington for being a Communist; he was also reported as having been a contact of Gregori Khei-feta Soviet Secret Police supervisor who operated from the U.SJS.R. Consulate in San Francisco. On June 24, 1964, Dr. Gundlach was listed as a speaker for the Daughters of Bilitis, a Lesbian homosexual society, at its n national convention in the Hotel Plaza in New York City. Dr. William Obrinsky and his wife (who practices under the name of Dr. Elaine Allen) are pediatricians and child psychologists who have been associated with the Health Insurance Plan (H.IJ) which cares for the children of members of the New York City Police Department and other civil servants. In the House Committee on Activities Report No. 1360, dated February 3, 1958, Page 23, Dr. Obrinsky and his wife were identified in sworn testimony as members of the professional branch of the Communist Party in New Orleans. An example of the activities of radical psychiatrists and psychologists in connection with children was called to the attention of the Congress by Representative John R. Rarick on September 4, 1969. Noting that the AmerFact-Findin- an s, Bar-bizo- ican Psychological Association was holding convention in Washington, the Congressman declared: While one group of the psychologists was doing its thing by marching on the White House to stage an antiwar protest, another group on a panel at the same convention discussed sex education guidelines for infants by recommending that parents should get together to encourage, help and foster sexual children -play in their a nt and envisioned sexual playpens in nurseries. The psychologists may sound really hung up but consider that Robert Finch and James Fanner then of H.E.W., are already talking about the education of infants 14 to 21 months of age and projecting programs for unborn children. Congressman Rarick then cited an item from the Washington Post of September 4, 1969, which reported: Dr. Robert A. Harper, a Washington psychologist, told one group that parents should get together to encourage, help and foster sexual play in their children. Ihis approach, he said, including such devices as play pens fqr nursery school children, could prevent sexual hangups caused by Americas prudish culture. parent-supervise- d Dr. Harold Greenwald, a New York psychologist appearing on the same panel, blamed the first signs of sexual anxiety on the mother diapering her child. He said films show the mother always removed childrens hands from their sex organs. Could they be diapered any other way? Greenwald complained that even enlightened parents, who tell their children all about sex, forget one thing that its fun. They almost never explain that sex is exquisitely pleasurable. To make sex fun. Harpers program calls for a more open attitude on contraception and abortion. Populaeven going as far as tion control most taking away persons right to also is of his plan. Fear part produce disease still venereal and of pregnancy in preventforce has strong puritanical from achieving ing many young people constructive sex attitudes and actions, said Harper. Referring to his play pen proposal. Harper said vigorous and school is joyful sex play in the nursery abhorrent only obviously shocking and is a sex think still who those to basically undesirable activity." - Many of the new child experts who promote such madness follow the philosophy of Professor Ashley Montagu. Professor Montagu has taught child development and growth at the New School for Social Research, New York University, Rutgers University, and has lectured at many other such institutions. His specialties are anthropology and child development, and he is the author of many books used as textbooks by child specialists. The Anaheim Bulletin of September 19, 1969, reported: Ashley (SIE-CUMontagu appeared on the Tonight Show on NBC, September 16, and promptly informed the adults of America that they were uptight "about such things as girls and boys sleeping together in Princeton because they are jealous. He said a boy and girl at the college can share a room for 24 hours at a stretch, but not two days in a row.' Montagu said he thought that was just delightful.' Montagu . . . was plugging a new book he has written entitled Sex, Man and SoS) ciety. At a later date Professor Montagu lectured 3,000 educators in San Diego, California. He began the meeting by refusing to salute the flag. Then, to much laughter and applause, he deThe American home is an clared: institution designed for the systematic creation of mental illness in children." According to published Congressional Reports, Professor Montagu has repeatedly connected himself with organizations and activities cited as Communist and subversive. He is far too typical. Organized Abuse One of the founders and key figures of the mental health movement has been Dr. Otto Klineberg. He has often been recognized and sponsored by leading mental health associations, and he held an executive position in the World Federation for Mental Health. According to published reports, Dr. Klineberg has repeatedly affiliated himself with organizations cited as Communist and subversive, was reported as a signer of a statement defending the Communist Party, and his writings were advertised for sale in the catalogs of the Communist Workers Book Shop. The standards of psychiatry and mental health have been powerfully influenced by the World Health Organization, an affiliate of the United Nations. For many years the director of the W.H.O. was Dr. Brock Chisholm, a psychiatrist who urged the scrapping of the U.S. Constitution, the creation of a world police force, massterilization, creation of a Marxist World Government led by psychiatrists, and redistribution of all the worlds material wealth. Through the W.H.O., with many millions of dollars supplied by the UN., Dr. Chisholm sive issued Marxist bulletins regularly and recommendations distributed and world the known to throughout have had considerable influence in the practice of psychiatry. The World Health Organization is headquartered in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and the present director general is Dr. Marcolino Gomes Cafidau. Dr. Candau, who was educated in Brazil and the United States, holds honorary degrees from the Charles University in Communist Czechoslovakia (1967), and the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest in Communist Romania (1970). He served as an assistant to Dr. Brock Chisholm for many years and became director general upon Chisholms retirement in 1953. The regional office of W.H.O. for the Americas is at 525 23rd Street, Washington, D.C., and it is directed by Dr. Abraham Horowitz-Baraa Chilean who is a former Rockefeller Foundation fellow. Soviet spy Alger Hiss saw great possibilities in the World Health Organization. While he was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace he wrote in the March 1948 issue of International Concilik, ation: The Constitution of the World Health Organization . . . embodies in its provisions the broadest principles in public health service today. Defining health as a state of complete physical, mental and social and not well-bein- g, merely the absence of disease or infirmity,' it includes not only the more conventional fields of activity but also to We know from mental health . . . the recent testimony before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that like by mental health Communists that mind of Alger Hiss mean a state resists subjugation under Communism. The possibilities for abuse of obvious. psychiatry by subversives are eliminate to Used by governments opposition, it is especially frightening. Yet, in spite of widespread proof of the use of psychiatry for political Sovirepression and persecution in the Assoet Union, the World Psychiatric ciation at its meeting in Mexico City at the end of 1971 refused to issue a statement condemning this practice. The general assembly of this organization of 60,000 psychiatrists from 76 countries even refused to support a proposal that would set internationally accepted standards for psychiatry. One of the psychiatric abuses prevalent in the United States is compulsory psychiatric examination. The original intent of the federal statute which allows this was to aid defendants who are mentally incompetent to stand trial. It was not intended to be used by the prosecution as a means of avoiding' the embarrassment of a trial that would either fail for lack of evidence or cause political repercussions. Nonetheless, overzealous psychiatrists and prosecutors often abuse the pre-tri- al practice of involuntary psychiatric diagnosis and confinement. This is an extremely dangerous practice since there are no generally accepted standards of psychiatric behavior or mental health. It subjects the accused to political incarceration. Dr. Thomas S. Szasz, an internationally respected professor of psychThe iatry, has correctly observed: right to a public trial and to decent limits on methods permitted the prosecution for incriminating the accused are among the most important features of a free, society. The more these liberties are compromised, the more tyrannical is the governments hold over the people. The expanding use of psychiatric interventions in the enforcement of the criminal law has, in my opinion, steadily diminished our constitutional liberties. The recent practice of pre- trial psychiatric examination of defendants, on the order of the court and against the wishes of the accused, promises to effectively nullify some of our most important constitutional rights Dr. Robert Morris, former Chief Counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, reminds us that what makes this already dangerous practice even more serious is that Communists are well established in the field of psychiatry. Dr. Morris wonders, for instance, how many people were committed to institutions through Dr. Robert Soblen, a convicted Communist spy who jumped bail and went to Israel and then to England, where he was officially a suicide. Dr. Soblen was a psychiatrist employed by the State of New York at Rockland State Hospi tal for thfc Insane. He organized a unit in New York City for the Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P.) and was chief psychiatrist for that organization, treating members of the New York Police Department and their families as well as other city employees. And Dr. Morris observes: 1 have seen not only among practicing psychiatrists but, even more serious, on the councils of some psychiatric groups that are trying to set up norms of behavior, the names of psychiatrists who could not deny the evidence of their participation in the Communist Conspiracy before the Senate Committee I served, and instead invoked the Fifth Amendment, lest they incriminate themselves." At The Cost Of Liberty In 1961 the National Institute of Mental Health spent approximately $92 million tax dollars. In 1971 the figure had risen to more than $420 million, an increase of over 357 percent. Community health centers were supposed to replace the public mental hospitals, but the number of public health hospitals has increased from 286 in 1961 to 321 in 1971. Of the $30 million allocated to NJ.M.H. in 1961, $4 million was to be used for various types of publicity to promote the belief that self-servi- mi) T more than 20 million Americans are mentally ill. This estimate was recently a N.I.M.H. pushed to 60 million by estimate was the and psychologist, author of widely publicized. To the that estimate. Dr. David Rosenthal, chief of the laboratory of psychology at N.I.M.H., mental illness includes psyschizophrenia, psychosopsychoneurosis, chosis, almatic disorders, sexual disabilities, coholism, drug addiction, suicide, minimal brain disfunction, reading disRosenability, stuttering, and senility. thal said he had made some studies in Denmark and concluded that: If the same ratio were to apply in this country, we would find more than United sixty million people in the call we what form of some States with disorder. schizophrenic spectrum According to Dr. Stanley F. Yolles, director of N.IM.H. at the time he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations in May of 1968, there are about 500,000 children in the United States suffering from frank, open, or borderline psychosis, and another million children who are suffering from severe emotional problems. He estimated that about 500,000 need psychiatric care right now, and that only about one percent of the mentally fll children in the U.S. are receiving care. Dr. Yolles thinks government psychiatry should treat" these children. A former top Army Intelligence and psychological warfare officer, who has long probed the misuse of psychiatry and improper commitment, states: If Yolles estimates are to be believed, they are terrifying to those who are familiar with mental hospitals. These hospitals provide little or no schooling for adults or children; work manic-depressi- therapy is menial, and recreation, other than watching television or cardplaying, is practically Children are not assigned to childrens wards; they are caged with adults of every known perversion and aberration. As mental patients children are preferable to adults because they can be kept in mental hospitals longer and they are mure tractable. A child committed to a mental hospital at say, age 15, will not even be considered for discharge until he is 21, and by that time he should be so theres no purpose in releasing him at all. By picking off the young, mental hospitals can be assured of a stable number of permanent guests (and a steady income from the taxpayers). Children are also an advantage to mental hospitals in that psychiatric experimentation with drugs and electric convulsion therapy can be imposed on children with less protest than they can be imposed on adults. The medical literature describes not only experimentation on children with electric convulsion therapy but with lobotomies, too. Under treatment as it is defined in state and county mental hospitals, a child does not even have a fighting chance for recovery. If he is schizophrenic, he is at the mercy of psychiatrists who admittedly do not know what causes schizophrenia. If he sees a psychiatrist at all, the psychiatrist is likely to be an unlicensed, foreign-bordoctor with a limited knowledge of English. Like Dr. Thomas Szasz, my informant is concerned that, through powerful lobbies in the state legislatures, radical psychiatrists have regulated the laws so that people can be imprisoned in mental hospitals with none of the protection of due process. He notes that the number of persons committed to county and state hospitals in the United States each year is more than 400,000. Most of these people are declared insane only because relatives and cooperative psychiatrists say they are. To provide legal as well as medical justification for depriving a person of his liberty and property without the courtesy of due process, the officer a new medical continues, specialty has been developed forensic psychiatry. Practitioners of this specialty are those psychiatrists on the mental hospital staffs who go into court to persuade the judge that a certain person is mentally ill and a fine subject for commitment. citizens though they may be, forensic psychiatrists are dedicated, under color of law, to pervert the law; they visualize a society where is men- non-existen- t. anti-soci- n - Law-abidi- al tal illness and where the psychiatrist is judge, jury, and jailer. Unfortunately, some courts in the United States have agreed with them. Shocking practices in some of our mental hospitals come to light regularly. In 1963 at Bridgewater (Massachusetts) State Hospital (for the criminally insane) there were fifty men who had been committed and confined there for thirty years or more, one for more than sixty years. The crimes for which they were committed included first offenses of vagrancy, truancy, intoxication, petty larceny, stealing a bicycle, stealing a horse, and forty complaints of parents. A previous made in 1953-195- 4 investigation resulted in the release of 217 men, many of whom had been there for forty years on charges of truancy or minor misdemeanors. In 1933, the counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts found boys serving lifetime sentences in mental prison for minor juvenile offenses. He found boys sentenced to spending their lives in a mental prison with murderers for the vicious crime of having stolen a bicycle. In spite of this, nothing was done for twenty years. During the 1953 investigation the superintendent of this institution, James E. Warren, admitted that a great many of his patients may have been committed illegally, and the files of the investigators showed that many of the inmates had not seen a mental health officer in years. While many people in need of help are seemingly abandoned, the National Institute of Mental Health squanders millions of dollars of taxpayers funds on research projects which often have little to do with mental health. For instance, an NJ.MJH. grant of $250,000 was given to Dr. Seymour Fisher for research which resulted in a book entitled The Female Orgasm. Dr. Fisher, professor of psychology at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, came to the startling conclusion (after spending $250,000 of taxpayers' monsexual responsiveness is ey) that linked to feelings and attitudes about people." Another N.I.M.H. grant which resulted in a book was made to Dr. B.F. Skinner, a Harvard University psychologist. His research, as shown in his book, indicated that individual freedom and human dignity have outlived their usefulness and should be replaced by a planned and controlled culture. According to Skinner, undue regard for individual rights and freedom could be fatal; it could destroy our culture. He claims that such ideals are e in our society and could destroy us through overpopulation, pollution, depletion of natural resources, and social upheaval. Freedom is not necessary to human beings, says the federally financed Dr. Skinner. As syndicated columnist Paul Scott noted: One of the best kept secrets in government today is the amount of federal funds being spent in the behavioral research field and the scope of these investigations. No one in Congress or the Executive Branch is willing or can tell you the governments full involvement. Not even the General counter-productiv- Office, the congressional on watchdog government spending, claims to know The National Institute of Mental Health granted $283,000 to Dr. B.F. Skinner, author of the controversial book Beyond Freedom and Dignity.' The highly questionable grant, ronning through 1974, was made by NIMH to free Skinner, Chairman of the Psychology Department at Harvard, from teaching and research responsibilities so that he Accounting .... could pursue scholarly activities. These activities have consisted mainly of his writing the controversial book and appearing all over the country on television and at symposiums to talk about and promote his idea of government controls over the way we think and live.'. Making Everyone Vulnerable In light of such madness it seems far too obvious that psychiatrists and psychologists often arrive at their judgments improperly. This theme was discussed by Dr. David L Rosenhan, professor of psychology and: law at Stanford University, in an article recently published in Science, the journal of the American Association for the |