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2018-03-11 International-UN-NGOs

Philippine president needs ‘psychiatric evaluation’, says UN rights chief

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Posted by Fred 2018-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 UN ... rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

Psychiatry was invented by a Jew, Zeid.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 03:30|| 2018-03-11 03:30|| Front Page Top

#2 If you are thinking of Freud, no, he didn't invent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Reil

Posted by European Conservative 2018-03-11 06:43|| 2018-03-11 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhh, EC, shhh - don't spoil my fun

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 08:03|| 2018-03-11 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry, but I can spoil it even more...

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), known as Rhazes in the western tradition. He was among the first in the world to write on mental illness and psychotherapy.

As chief physician of Baghdad hospital, he was also the director of one of the first psychiatric wards in the world. Two of his works in particular, El-Mansuri and Al-Hawi, provide descriptions and treatments for mental illnesses.

Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdalah ibn-Sina (980-1030), known to the west as Avicenna, was a pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine.

Posted by European Conservative 2018-03-11 09:53|| 2018-03-11 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The statement that someone 'needs psychiatric help' is simply the the statist's way of saying "He's thinking bad thoughts."
It's not that they want to help; It's that they want to suppress.

Posted by ed in texas 2018-03-11 10:30|| 2018-03-11 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Look EC, I don't know about your Johann, but - I can tell you will full confidence that the work of these Islamic scholars has the same relation to psychiatry that alchemistry has to chemistry.

p.s. I believe that psychiatry is b*llshit.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 11:32|| 2018-03-11 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 p.s. I believe that psychiatry is b*llshit.
Posted by g(r)omgoru

Recognition really is the first step toward recovery.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-11 11:36|| 2018-03-11 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 You believe in recovery, besoeker?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 11:42|| 2018-03-11 11:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Have your doctor send me your file. I'll get back to you in a few days.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-11 11:46|| 2018-03-11 11:46|| Front Page Top

#10 do you have a licence to practice medicine?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 11:48|| 2018-03-11 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 the work of these Islamic scholars has the same relation to psychiatry that alchemistry has to chemistry.

A person of less restraint than I would snark "who has more experience with mental illness than the Arabs?"

Posted by SteveS 2018-03-11 12:03|| 2018-03-11 12:03|| Front Page Top

#12 They see it as normal.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-11 12:10|| 2018-03-11 12:10|| Front Page Top

#13 They see it as normal.

They see lots of things as normal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/onlinemagazin/status/931479112509808640?lang=en

Posted by gorb 2018-03-11 16:39|| 2018-03-11 16:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Don’t forget, they are ‘practicing’. No competence required.

Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-03-11 19:19|| 2018-03-11 19:19|| Front Page Top

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