I&#8217;ve written a good deal about the damage that the field of modern psychiatry has done to mankind, across a variety of contexts. Most of the harms — the invention of gender ideology, the mass overprescribing of psychotropic drugs, and so on — are relatively widely known. What&#8217;s less well-known, because not a lot of people talk about it, is the sinister influence of modern psychiatry on our criminal justice system. For all the criticism to be made of Soros D.A.&#8217;s and Democrats&#8217; refusal to prosecute criminals — all of it justified — the role of modern psychiatry in freeing violent offenders is often ignored. But it&#8217;s very much a crisis in this country, and it&#8217;s been one for some time.
It was all the way back in the early 1970s when a man named Charles Meach beat a 22-year-old grocery store clerk to death in Anchorage, Alaska. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and shipped off to a mental institution. But just seven years later, Meach was released. Psychiatrists claimed Meach had made a full recovery. He promised he wouldn&#8217;t murder anyone in the future, and that was good enough, apparently. After all, why would he lie? What had Charles Meach ever done to prove himself untrustworthy? I mean, aside from the whole beating-someone-to-death thing. So he was released on the honor system. He pinky promised not to murder ever again. But the promise was short-lived. Two years later, Meach purchased a revolver and murdered four teenagers at a campsite, just for the thrill of it.
Reforms were promised after that massacre, and you can see why. It was a pretty clear sign that mental health professionals should stop pretending that murderers can somehow be &#8220;cured&#8221; of their murderous tendencies. Murder is not, in fact, a symptom of an illness. It is a manifestation of human evil. And people who commit those kinds of evil acts should be locked in prison forever.
But psychiatrists were not dissuaded. Instead, our sainted mental health professionals, with the help of mostly Democrat-controlled state governments across the country, have continued to embed themselves into the criminal justice system. Their psychiatric facilities now function as safe houses for violent thugs like Jordan Neely, who didn&#8217;t go to prison even after he punched an elderly woman in the face on the subway and broke her nose. Instead, Neely was offered &#8220;intensive outpatient psychiatric treatment,&#8221; which would supposedly cure him of his addiction to terrorizing random people on the train. And we all know how that turned out.
Any rational person who looks at incidents like this will recognize immediately what&#8217;s going on. Left-wing prosecutors have found a kind of hack that enables them to release extremely dangerous criminals, even when their guilt is beyond any doubt. All the prosecutors have to do is find some hippy psychiatrist to sign off on a &#8220;treatment plan,&#8221; and then pretty much anything is possible. They could release some of the most dangerous and depraved criminals on the planet, who committed their crimes not too long ago, based solely on the pseudoscience of modern psychiatry — which is completely subjective, and often relies entirely on the promise of the criminal not to reoffend. There is no crime — and I really mean no crime — so heinous that the criminal cannot be released back into society if a psychiatrist claims that he’s been successfully “treated.”
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1542-the-woke-justice-system-just-let-an-axe-murdering-cannibal-walk-free-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
If you think I’m exaggerating, then please consider the case of Tyree Smith, which has to be one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice we&#8217;ve ever seen in American history. Tyree Smith confessed to the brutal murder of a 43-year-old homeless man in a vacant apartment in Connecticut back in 2011. Smith was apparently <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130820075136/https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/accused-cannibal-considered-eating-psychiatrist-4653241.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">distressed</a> about losing his job at Starbucks, before he began to hear voices in his head. 
Now, the details of his crime are so horrific that I’m sorry that I have to share them with you. But it’s important that you have the full story. So here it is. Smith used an axe to kill the man inside an abandoned home in Bridgeport. He then hacked up the man’s body, removed several of his organs — an eyeball and some of his brain — and then ate them at cemetery nearby. So this is an axe murdering graveyard cannibal we’re talking about. Something straight out of a horror film. The man&#8217;s body (or what was left of it) wasn&#8217;t found for nearly 40 days. At trial, Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In 2013, a panel of judges committed Smith to a mental institution for 60 years.
But Smith will not spend anywhere near 60 years in a mental institution.
Instead, something called the &#8220;Psychiatric Security Review Board&#8221; in Connecticut has just granted Smith a &#8220;conditional release.&#8221; That means he&#8217;ll receive &#8220;day passes&#8221; to wander around the hospital grounds as he pleases. And very soon, he&#8217;ll be able to make &#8220;off-site&#8221; visits into the community.
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If you had told me a few years ago that woke justice reform would soon lead to the release of an axe murderer cannibal, it would have seemed too outlandish even to me. Even if you have a black murderer and a white victim, as you do in this case — even given everything we&#8217;ve seen during the moral panic of the BLM era — it still seems unthinkable. And it only gets more unthinkable when you look into the specifics of Tyree Smith&#8217;s case and why he was released.
First of all, it’s perhaps worth nothing, this decision was made during a hearing in which Tyree Smith wasn&#8217;t even present. He teleconferenced in, and he didn&#8217;t appear on the video screens in the hearing room. Right away, that should be disqualifying. You will not find very many employers in this country that are willing to hire a job applicant after a phone call, without seeing the applicant in any way. Which means it is, at least in some ways, more difficult for a normal person to get a job at Walmart than it is for a homicidal cannibal to get released from an asylum.
So why is Connecticut releasing Tyree Smith? As the hearing went on, a psychiatrist testified that Smith has recovered. He is a reformed cannibal. His axe murdering days are behind him. And her evidence for this statement is that Smith has denied experiencing any hallucinations, or a desire to harm other people. He’s better now, and we know he’s better now, because he says he’s better now. I&#8217;m going to play that clip from the hearing, then at the end you&#8217;ll see a question from the prosecutor to the doctor. Watch:
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As you just heard, evidence of Tyree Smith&#8217;s “recovery” is based on self-reported data. They “know” that he hasn’t had any hallucinations or cravings to consume human flesh because he told them: &#8220;He denied visual hallucinations or a desire to harm others or himself.&#8221; Well, okay then. What more do you need to know? Oh and by the way, if he stops taking his medications, he could totally become a cannibal again. But he pinky-promises that he&#8217;ll keep taking his medications, and stop murdering people.
Of course, at the same time, Smith also knows that his only chance of ever seeing the outside world again is to lie about all of this. So either he is an axe murderer cannibal who grew out of it like a child grows out of a bed-wetting phase, or he’s lying. There’s about a 99.9999 percent chance of the latter.
At the hearing, one of the victim&#8217;s family members pointed this out. She remarked, “How do we really know he’s not going to do this again? He had no remorse for killing Angel.” She also said that the whole family is terrified because it&#8217;s quite possible Tyree Smith will reoffend. Watch:
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So the axe-murderer is apparently the life of the party at the insane asylum. He’s a joy to be around. Of course we can probably assume that the man he hacked to death and then consumed would disagree with this assessment. But he’s not here — because he’s dead. The point is that, as long as Tyree Smith isn’t axe-murdering, he’s really quite pleasant. But that&#8217;s small comfort to the family of his victim, who really wants an answer to a pretty basic question, which is: What assurances do we have that he won&#8217;t kill us, exactly?
In their report, the Connecticut psychiatry board includes this line, which is really an all-time caliber line. If you&#8217;re assembling a hall-of-fame of the most deranged statements that the medical profession has tried to pass off as legitimate, this would have to be very high on the list. This is directly from the Connecticut psychiatry board&#8217;s report. I’m <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-ct-tyree-smith-released-18394546.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not making this up</a>, I assure you: &#8220;He denied experiencing cravings but stated that if they were to arise, he would reach out to his hospital and community supports and providers.&#8221;
Yes, cravings. So just relax, everybody. There&#8217;s nothing to worry about. The Connecticut psychiatric board is releasing an axe murderer cannibal back into society, but they assure us that if he experiences any “cravings” for the taste of human flesh, he will immediately “reach out” for help. They’re going to release him but they’ll say on his way out the door: “Hey, make sure to reach out if you ever feel like eating someone’s brain!” And that should do it. What a relief. In the last decade or so that he&#8217;s been locked away, Tyree Smith has become totally and completely normal. There&#8217;s zero likelihood that Tyree Smith will, say, order Uber Eats and assume that the delivery driver is the meal.
Of course, all of this discussion about whether Tyree Smith is “reformed” actually misses the point anyway. Even in the fantasyland scenario where an axe murderer could be transformed into a functional, tax-paying member of society, he still shouldn’t be released. He should be in prison as a matter of basic justice. If he&#8217;s truly cured of his schizophrenia and murderous tendencies, then he should be shipped to a maximum-security prison. The idea that he belongs in civilized society, after brutally murdering a man and then eating him, is only appealing if you&#8217;re the kind of person who — for one reason or another — sympathizes more with killers than the victims who are killed. And that&#8217;s the kind of attitude that defines a lot of psychiatrists.
For example, I looked up one of the Yale psychiatrists who testified for the defense in Smith&#8217;s original trial, named Reena Kapoor (pronouns she/her/hers). She&#8217;s written a lot of articles about her time working with murderers who were found not guilty by reason of insanity. Here&#8217;s a direct <a href="https://jaapl.org/content/36/4/563.long" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quote</a> from one of those articles. It&#8217;s about how an inmate — a murderer — asked to take a walk with her while in prison. And apparently it left her very hot and bothered:
<blockquote>J.M. and I never did take a walk together. In fact, neither of us ever mentioned the idea again. &#8230; As far as I know, J.M. does not speak of me longingly or wax nostalgic about our year of psychotherapy. .. As for me, I have had some time to reflect on things, and I am plagued by one last question about J.M.&#8217;s request to take a walk with me. Why did he ask to take a walk in particular? Why not ask to see a movie or have lunch together?</blockquote>
It reads like an early 2000s MySpace post or a LiveJournal blog from a teenage girl who&#8217;s infatuated with serial killers. But it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s an excerpt from an article published in the &#8220;Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.&#8221; This is how a lot of &#8220;doctors&#8221; in the field of psychiatry conduct themselves. It&#8217;s the kind of thing they fantasize about. And in Tyree Smith&#8217;s case, they have taken their ideology to its logical conclusion. Of course, they don&#8217;t want Smith to live anywhere near their neighborhoods. They just want you to have to deal with him.
This is bleeding heart liberalism in its final, horrifically deranged and monstrous, and also literal, form. Although, as I’ve often pointed out, this isn’t actually due to an overabundance of compassion or sensitivity. It’s exactly the opposite. These decisions are fueled by a kind of psychotic indifference to the immense human suffering that will inevitably come as a result. The people who made this decision know that there&#8217;s a high likelihood that this man will butcher another person, and they just don’t care. They are just as psychotic as he is. In Russia, they <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/24/news/cannibal-serial-killer-denis-gorin-pardoned-by-putin-for-fighting-in-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">send</a> their cannibals to fight in war, to inflict horrors on the enemies of the state. That happened several times in just the past few years, during the war in Ukraine. But in the United States, psychiatrists want cannibals to inflict those horrors on Americans.
When modern psychiatry was just getting started in 19th century Britain, something called the &#8220;Alleged Lunatics&#8217; Friend Society&#8221; formed. They saw psychiatrists as completely illegitimate — as totalitarians who just wanted to imprison people without due process. And there was indeed a long period of time where psychiatry was used to imprison people who were not dangerous and had done nothing wrong. We now have the exact opposite problem. Psychiatry has done a 180 flip. Deranged lunatics are being freed as a means of circumventing the criminal justice system. The common thread here — the the thing that ties together these two extremes — is that in both cases psychiatry is a cover to inflict horrors beyond comprehension onto the public.
The reality — and this really shouldn’t need to be said — is that someone who kills another human and eats his brain will never be fit to live freely in society ever again. This should not be a controversial statement. In fact, it should be the least controversial statement ever uttered. But in psychiatry, it is controversial, which is why people living in Connecticut are worried that they&#8217;re back on the menu tonight. The truth is that the people who freed the axe murderer cannibal are just as demented as the axe murderer cannibal himself. They haven’t consumed human flesh at a graveyard — as far as I know, anyway — but they are equally deranged. And because they have a lot more power, and are legitimized under the veil of “science,” they are quite a bit more dangerous.

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The Woke Justice System Just Let An Axe Murdering Cannibal Walk Free

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President Biden has an odd habit.
He likes to relate to his audience, but that&#8217;s a common trait among politicians. What&#8217;s strange about Biden&#8217;s folksy &#8220;charm&#8221; is that he seems to appropriate the experiences of whatever demographic his audience is that day.
If we listen to Biden, he&#8217;s a devout Irish Catholic who&#8217;s also Jewish and went to synagogue, who&#8217;s also Greek, who sometimes wished he were Polish, who was raised by Puerto Ricans and also the black community. He&#8217;s also a former truck driver who was part of the civil rights movement, was offered a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-punts-when-asked-about-bidens-apparent-navy-football-fib" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naval Academy football sponsorship</a>, was arrested in South Africa with Nelson Mandela, and whose <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/re-someone-elses-life-is-passing-before-bidens-eyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dad was cool with</a> gay men kissing in public in 1950s Scranton.
It&#8217;s all very well for a politician to get folksy with his audience, but Biden goes beyond that. He sometimes crosses the line into fiction. His ever-growing collection of anecdotes about his apparently incredibly varied life experiences seem to contradict each other as well as beg belief.
Last week, Biden told the Polish president that he grew up near a lot of Polish people in Wilmington, Delaware, and was &#8220;self-conscious my name didn’t end in an ‘s-k-i’ or an ‘o.’”
Biden added &#8220;all kidding aside,&#8221; but he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-repeats-questionable-claim-he-frequented-black-church-civil-rights-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/biden-jewish-greek-puerto-rican/">tags</a> a &#8220;not a joke&#8221; onto the end of his outlandish stories.
“I probably went to shul more than many of you did. You all think I’m kidding,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/30/remarks-by-president-biden-first-lady-jill-biden-and-second-gentleman-douglas-emhoff-at-a-reception-to-celebrate-the-jewish-new-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in September at a Jewish new year celebration.
“I’m a practicing Catholic, but I’d go to services on Saturday and on Sunday,” he said. As the audience laughed, he repeated, “You all think I’m kidding. I’m not.”
At least one psychiatrist is suggesting that Biden&#8217;s exaggerated stories may be connected to mental decline.
&#8220;One would assume that it has been pointed out to Biden by people in his circle, that he has been embellishing half-truths or even telling tall tales,&#8221; said Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D., a forensic psychiatrist who has provided expert witness testimony in several high-profile cases.
&#8220;Biden doesn’t seem able to stop himself. Indeed, it has only gotten worse, as have other symptoms of his dementia,&#8221; Lieberman told The Daily Wire.
Concerns about Biden&#8217;s cognition are not new.
During his presidential campaign, Biden&#8217;s physician assured that the former vice president was a “healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old.” However, critics have <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/bidens-mental-sharpness-is-increasingly-doubtful-and-its-a-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> serious concerns about his mental capacity.
Biden&#8217;s exaggerations may be more frequent now, but they stretch back to before his old age.
In a 1987 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vintage-biden-clip-resurfaces-law-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clip</a>, Biden boasted that he graduated “in the top half of my class” at Syracuse University College of Law. Later he admitted that he graduated 76th in his class of 85 students.
Lieberman said another reason Biden exaggerates is that he wants to be liked, especially leading up to 2024, so he is attempting to appeal to all people, Polish, Jewish, black, or LGBT.
&#8220;He tells these stories as a way to try to cement his likability in whatever audience he’s in front of — especially because he knows he’s making gaffes and needs the audience to feel connection and compassion towards him,&#8221; Lieberman said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m an honorary Greek, not only today but every day!&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYTraWVB_dk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2009 at a Greek Independence Day celebration.
“I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/03/remarks-by-president-biden-on-hurricane-fiona-response-and-recovery-efforts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in October, speaking to a group of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Fiona.
“I come out of a black community, in terms of my support,” Biden said in November 2019 during a primary debate.
That comment raised eyebrows, and a few months later, he attempted to clarify.
“I’m not saying, ‘I am black.’ But I want to tell you something — I have spent my whole career with the black community,” Biden said.
Biden has also claimed he was active in the civil rights movement.
In January, he claimed to have attended a historic black church — on top of Mass and synagogue — to help organize anti-segregation protests.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but [I] used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the black church,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-repeats-questionable-claim-he-frequented-black-church-civil-rights-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during remarks celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Longtime congregants have <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/members-dont-recall-bidens-attendance-at-black-church-as-teen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they do not remember Biden ever attending.
&#8220;I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/29/biden-mocked-for-claiming-he-used-to-drive-an-18-wheeler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in July 2021 while visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania. The White House eventually pointed to a December 1973 article from the Wilmington Evening Journal saying Biden once rode in an 18-wheeler truck.
In May, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/27/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-united-states-naval-academys-class-of-2022-graduation-and-commissioning-ceremony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a> that he almost attended the U.S. Naval Academy, which requires a congressional nomination. No records <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/no-record-of-biden-naval-academy-appointment-he-boasted-about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been</a> found to back up that claim.
In July while speaking to athletes in Israel, Biden <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/07/14/biden-greeted-with-cheers-of-joe-at-2022-world-maccabiah-games/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> he almost tried out as a walk-on in the NFL.
In 2020, Biden <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51648166" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked back</a> one of his most famous questionable claims, that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela.
One of Biden&#8217;s most unbelievable claims is that his Catholic father had no problem with two gay men kissing in public on the streets of 1950s Scranton.
“Joey, it’s simple. They love each other,” Biden <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/re-someone-elses-life-is-passing-before-bidens-eyes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> his dad told him. Yet even with such a staggeringly progressive father, Biden still opposed gay marriage for another six decades.
Whether Biden&#8217;s stories are honest mistakes, deliberate exaggerations, or a symptom of an aging mind, the president seems as eager as ever to tell them.
&#8220;He’s hoping for the sympathy vote,&#8221; Lieberman said.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/italy">Italy</a> is the latest European country whose professional health body has warned against the use of puberty blocking drugs in children.
The Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) penned a <a href="https://www.spiweb.it/la-cura/disforia-di-genere-il-comunicato-del-presidente-s-thanopulos-12-01-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> this month to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, <a href="https://genderclinicnews.substack.com/p/first-strike-against-puberty-blockers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressing</a> &#8220;great concern&#8221; over the &#8220;ongoing experimentation&#8221; of drugs meant to stop puberty in children and urging &#8220;rigorous scientific discussion.&#8221; 
“The diagnosis of gender dysphoria at prepubertal age is based on the statements of the individuals concerned and cannot be subject to careful evaluation while the development of sexual identity is still in progress,” the letter says.
The letter, written by president Sarantis Thanopulos and published on the society&#8217;s website, outlined &#8220;contraindications&#8221; to the puberty-blocking drugs that should be &#8220;seriously considered.&#8221;
“Only a minority of children who state that they do not identify with their gender confirm this position in adolescence, after puberty,&#8221; the letter continued. A body of <a href="http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> indicates that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender, but do not socially or medically transition, will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood.
“It is important to initiate a rigorous scientific discussion on the issue of children with gender problems, to which the Italian Psychoanalytic Society will gladly contribute,&#8221; the letter concluded.
Meloni, Italy&#8217;s first female prime minister who took office in October 2022, indicated skepticism of radical gender theory during a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63351655">speech</a> she gave in Spain last June, in which she said, &#8220;Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology …&#8221;
There is a growing international consensus that minors experiencing gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy first, not medical interventions. Health authorities in Sweden, Finland, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.K.</a> have unanimously concluded after systematic reviews of evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that the risks and uncertainties outweigh any purported benefits.
Far from “completely safe and reversible” and “a pause button on puberty,” as proponents of “gender-affirming care” claim, the children who begin taking puberty blockers during the first signs of puberty and go on to take cross-sex hormones, which constitute the vast majority, will become sterilized and may never be able to achieve orgasm.
The New York Times investigated the deleterious effects that puberty blockers have on bone health, and published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html">article</a> after reviewing the scientific literature and interviewing over 50 doctors and academic experts around the world. 
In the United States, doctors have prescribed puberty blockers off-label as a “treatment” for gender dysphoria in adolescents on an experimental basis. There are no long-term studies to support its use during this critical window of brain and body development, and they are not FDA-approved for their off-label use.

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Italian Psychological Association Expressed ‘Great Concern’ Over Puberty Blocking Drugs

Italian Psychological Association Expressed 'Great Concern' Over Puberty Blocking Drugs

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It was October 1965 and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIOysM1briU">Arthur King</a> was undergoing treatment for severe alcoholism at the Spring Grove Psychiatric Hospital in Maryland. Nothing seemed to alleviate his urge to drink, so his doctor decided to try something unconventional: he gave him a dose of lysergic acid diethylamide, more commonly known as the psychedelic drug LSD.
About half an hour after taking the drug, King started to experience vivid hallucinations of bright colors and complex geometric shapes. A single rose in a vase in the room seemed to come alive, opening and closing &#8211; even breathing. As King was staring at that rose, his doctor asked him if he felt like drinking. The moment King thought about alcohol, the rose appeared to turn black, whither, and die.
The 14-hour-long session was full of intense emotions, hallucinations, and epiphanies for the young father. He thought of his children and his wife and began to experience feelings of intense love for them. The things that troubled him before and caused him to drink seemed to slide into irrelevance. He realized that he was capable of accomplishing so much more with his life and that alcohol had been holding him back. By the end of the session, King had lost all desire to drink. He was cured of his addiction.
When CBS <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMm3SJeWDxQ">followed up</a> with King nearly three decades after the experiment took place, King was still sober. “I wouldn’t take a million dollars for the peace of mind I obtained from this therapy,” he told the reporters.
The so-called <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309477954_Thirty_Years_of_Psychedelic_Research_The_Spring_Grove_Experiment_and_Its_Sequels">Spring Grove Experiments</a> were part of a revolutionary effort in the 1950s and 60s to explore the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs &#8211; most notably LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic” mushrooms.
Researchers saw astonishing results from treating <a href="http://www.psychonautdocs.com/docs/dyck_hittinghighs.pdf">alcoholism</a>, depression, and a host of other mental illnesses with psychedelics. Many study participants saw more progress from a single “trip” on mushrooms or LSD than they did from years of psychotherapy alone. These mysterious compounds were poised to revolutionize the way we treat mental illnesses.
Then came the hippies.
Eventually, LSD escaped the lab. The head of the Harvard Psilocybin Project, Timothy Leary, began to recklessly <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/5/23/trip-down-memory-lane/">promote</a> the frequent and widespread use of psychedelics. Leary was eventually forced out of Harvard, but he continued to call on American youth to <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/turn-on,-tune-in/10199310#:~:text=Most%20of%20us%20associate%20psychedelic,in%20the%20US%20by%201966">“turn on, tune in, and drop out”</a> with the help of psychedelic drugs.
The widespread improper use of psychedelics, which has been <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269881119827891?journalCode=jopa#:~:text=Psychedelic%20preferring%20users%20had%20significantly,significant%20difference%20in%20Openness%20score">found</a> to cause users to become more open to unconventional ideas, fueled the turbulent counterculture movement of the 1960s. Young psychedelic users began to reject the assumptions that underpinned our society, like the value of the nuclear family structure and the importance of organized religion in public and private life. The social fabric appeared to be tearing, prompting Richard Nixon to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/575392333/nixons-manhunt-for-the-high-priest-of-lsd-in-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america">call</a> Leary “the most dangerous man in America.” In 1968, LSD and a wide range of other drugs were <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-lsd#:~:text=(The%20U.S.%20federal%20government%20didn,drugs%20on%20the%20students'%20consciousness">outlawed</a> as Schedule I substances, a category of drugs deemed dangerous and with no accepted medical uses.
From that moment on, funding for psychedelic research dried up, and the astonishing benefits documented in previous studies were largely forgotten or ignored.
That’s all changing now. An explosion of research on psychedelics has been taking place over the past two decades, and the findings thus far are even more impressive than what researchers documented half a century ago. In fact, many researchers believe FDA approval for the medical use of certain psychedelic drugs in a <a href="https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-booker-call-for-more-research-on-therapeutic-potential-of-psychedelic-drugs">clinical setting</a> is just around the corner. 
MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy, is one of those drugs. Researchers are currently in Phase 3 <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-psychedelic-may-soon-go-to-the-fda-for-approval-to-treat-trauma/">clinical trials</a>, the final step before FDA approval, to test the safety and efficacy of using MDMA to treat PTSD. One recent <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3">study</a> showed that three MDMA doses, in conjunction with 18 weeks of talk therapy, was far more effective at treating PTSD than any other FDA-approved treatment.
In a <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02698811211073759">study</a> published earlier this year from Johns Hopkins University, which has been leading the current renaissance in the study of psychedelics, researchers gave psilocybin to patients suffering from long-term moderate to severe depression, along with eight weeks of therapy. 75% of study participants experienced a significant decrease in depression, and 58% saw their depression enter remission. Astonishingly, these results held up one year later without additional psilocybin treatments. Researchers also found that there were no negative side effects associated with the treatment.
Dr. Roland Griffiths, the director at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, <a href="https://maps.org/news-letters/v20n1/v20n1-22to25.pdf">believes</a> the benefits of psychedelics derive in part from the “mystical experience” they can induce. In one <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050654/#:~:text=Even%20at%20the%2014%2Dmonth,indicating%20that%20it%20was%20the">study</a>, 67% of participants rated their experience on psilocybin as among the top five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives.
Interestingly, those who do not have this “mystical experience” during their therapy sessions are far less likely to see relief from depression as those who do. Perhaps this suggests that the benefits of psychedelics are brought on through the experience itself, rather than any biochemical reaction alone. 
If a single “mystical experience” brought on by magic mushrooms can cure long-term depression, as a growing number of studies have found, the implications are nothing short of revolutionary. Rather than being prescribed a daily regime of antidepressants &#8211; which only relieve depression for about <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361016/#:~:text=Studies%20involving%20adults%20have%20shown,within%20one%20to%20two%20years.">20% of people</a> and can cause a host of <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in-depth/ssris/art-20044825">side effects</a>, ranging from weight gain to the loss of sexual desire &#8211; patients may soon be able to experience long-term relief from depression from just one full-blown psychedelic trip in a clinical setting.
Despite the promising results seen by researchers so far, great caution should be used by anyone seeking to treat mental illness with psychedelics. While most conventional psychedelic drugs &#8211; like LSD and magic mushrooms &#8211; are non-toxic, non-addicting, and among the <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/09/26/psilocybin-scheduling-magic-mushrooms/">safest</a> drugs available (both legal and illegal), they are not without <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/01/04/bad-trips-mushrooms/">risks</a>. If taken in an improper setting or without the appropriate preparation, psychedelics can elicit a “bad trip,” potentially aggravating any underlying mental health problems or causing new ones to emerge. Since psychedelics alter one’s perception of reality, the experience can also be disorienting, even frightening. As mentioned earlier, psychedelics can also result in a permanent change in personality, significantly increasing a person’s openness to new ideas and experiences. For many, this could be a good thing, but one need only look at the “free love” hippies of yesteryear to see that there is a point of diminishing returns to being open-minded. 
Given the powerful nature of these drugs and their illicit status, prudence demands that psychedelics only be used in a clinical setting under the guidance of trained professionals. It is under those conditions that study participants, like Arthur King, have been able to experience such profound relief from mental illness. 
There is still far more that needs to be learned about psychedelics and how they operate, but as our nation struggles with increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and addiction, psychedelics may end up being the miracle cure our country needs.
The opinions expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association published a research article last month identifying “whiteness” as a “malignant” condition “to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility.”
Dr. Donald Moss authored the <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00030651211008507?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&amp;">article</a> titled “On Having Whiteness” and published it in the peer-reviewed journal on May 27. Moss is a psychoanalyst teaching at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/10/psychoanalyst-calls-whiteness-incurable-parasitic-like-condition/">New York Post</a>.
“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has — a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which ‘white’ people have a particular susceptibility, the article’s abstract says “The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world.”
“Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate,” the abstract continues. “Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites — to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation.”
“When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (‘never again’) or as temptation (‘great again’). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure,” it concludes.
The article received a wave of criticism and scorn after it began circulating on social media. Clinical psychologist Dr. Philip Pellegrino asked how anyone in the profession could take such an article seriously.
“How do my colleagues consider this scholarship? Anyone actuality [sic] take this seriously?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhilipPellegr/status/1402413166567493632">tweeted</a>.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1402679372503519234">commented</a>: “A peer-reviewed psychoanalytic journal calling whiteness a disease that needs to be cured. The entire ‘mental health’ industry is irreparably broken. Absolutely infested with this kind of madness.”
Erielle Davidson, a senior policy analyst for the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, called the article progressive “pseudo-race science.”
“Pseudo-race science is making a comeback under the banner of progressivism,” Davidson <a href="https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1402992838720192520">said</a>.
The anonymous political blogger Allahpundit <a href="https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1402695062954381315">noted</a> the eerie, suggestive language used at the end of the abstract, saying commenting that there is “not ‘yet’ a permanent cure.”
Anti-white sentiment has popped up in academic settings multiple times in the past month. Days before the anniversary of George Floyd’s death in May, Kate Slater, an assistant dean of Graduate Student Affairs at Brandeis University, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-white-people-are-racist-i-hate-whiteness-university-official-who-is-white-goes-on-anti-racist-tirade">posted</a> to social media that “all white people are racist” and that she hates “whiteness.” She also defended critical race theory, an academic theory that teaches that inequality anywhere is a sign of racism and that the United States is still systemically racist.
She wrote:
<blockquote>“Debates” about Critical Race Theory are often straw men about whether or not systemic racism is real, and no number of statistics or facts that I could offer up are going to convince people to “see” systemic racism if they don’t want to. Yes, all White people are racist in that all White people have been conditioned in a society where one’s racial identity determines life experiences/outcomes and Whiteness is the norm and the default. That includes me! I don’t hate white people — I hate whiteness. To distinguish between the two, please feel free to watch my recent live “What Is Whiteness?” CRT does not create oppression. It names oppression that already exists.</blockquote>

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After she tweeted in January 2020 that “just about all” of former President Trump’s followers suffered from a “shared psychosis,” a doctor of psychiatry who taught at Yale University was terminated from teaching there. Now she’s filed a complaint against the university, claiming she was unlawfully terminated “due to her exercise of free speech about the dangers of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency.”
Dr. Brandy Lee sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019 arguing that Trump was showing “signs of delusion.” On January 2, 2020, after two of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims claimed they were forced by Epstein to have sex with famed attorney Alan Dershowitz — Dershowitz <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/epstein-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-says-he-has-perfect-sex-life.html">responded</a> by saying that since he met Epstein, he had only had sex with his wife, adding that he had a “perfect sex life” — attorney Richard Painter likened Dershowitz’s rejoinder to a remark of Trump’s, writing, “Just like @realDonaldTrump’s ‘perfect phone call.’”
That prompted Lee to tweet, “Alan Dershowitz’s employing the odd use of ‘perfect’—not even a synonym—might be dismissed as ordinary influence in most contexts. However, given the severity and spread of ‘shared psychosis’ among just about all of Donald Trump’s followers, a different scenario is more likely.”
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Alan Dershowitz’s employing the odd use of “perfect”—not even a synonym—might be dismissed as ordinary influence in most contexts. However, given the severity and spread of “shared psychosis” among just about all of Donald Trump’s followers, a different scenario is more likely. <a href="https://t.co/m3XK3ztQgA">https://t.co/m3XK3ztQgA</a>
&mdash; Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) <a href="https://twitter.com/BandyXLee1/status/1212895680273899520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She added, “Which scenario? That he has wholly taken on Trump’s symptoms by contagion. There is even proof: his bravado toward his opponent with a question about his own sex life — in a way that is irrelevant to the actual lawsuit — shows the same grandiosity and delusional-level impunity.”
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Which scenario? That he has wholly taken on Trump’s symptoms by contagion. There is even proof: his bravado toward his opponent with a question about his own sex life—in a way that is irrelevant to the actual lawsuit—shows the same grandiosity and delusional-level impunity.
&mdash; Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) <a href="https://twitter.com/BandyXLee1/status/1212896615112953857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/27/dershowitz-requests-yale-to-investigate-psychiatrist/">Yale Daily News</a> reported what happened next:
<blockquote>In response, Dershowitz — a current member of Trump’s legal team and professor emeritus at Harvard — refuted Lee’s claims via a Jan. 11 Op-Ed posted on the website of the Gatestone Institute, an international policy council and think tank. The day the article went up, Dershowitz sent an email to University spokesperson Karen Peart and University President Peter Salovey’s Chief of Staff Joy McGrath requesting an investigation of Lee. He copied Lee and Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken on the email.
“Dr. Bandy Lee of the Yale Medical School has publicly ‘diagnosed’ me as ‘psychotic,’ based on my legal and political views, and without ever examining or even meeting me,” Dershowitz wrote. “This constitutes a serious violation of the ethics rules of the American Psychiatric Association. I am formally asking that association to discipline Dr. Lee. By this email, I also formally ask Yale University, Yale Law School and its medical school to determine whether Dr. Lee violated any of its rules.”</blockquote>
The chair of the Yale Psychiatry Department, John Krystal, then warned Lee via email that the department “would be compelled to &#8216;terminate [her] teaching role” if she insisted on repeatedly making statements about Trump and mental illness, writing, “Although the committee does not doubt that you are acting on the basis of your personal moral code, your repeated violations of the APA’s Goldwater Rule and your inappropriate transfer of the duty to warn from the treatment setting to national politics raised significant doubts about your understanding of crucial ethical and legal principles in psychiatry.”
The Goldwater Rule <a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/goldwater-rule">states</a>:
<blockquote>On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.</blockquote>
On May 17, 2020, Lee was notified that she had been terminated. She appealed the decision in August and September 2020.
Lee told the <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/03/23/former-professor-says-yale-fired-her-over-tweet-on-trump-dershowitz/">Yale Daily News</a> of her complaint: “I have done this with a heavy heart, only because Yale refused all my requests for a discussion, much as the American Psychiatric Association has done. I love Yale, my alma mater, as I love my country, but we are falling into a dangerous culture of self-censorship and compliance with authority at all cost.”
Lee stated in her complaint that she did not diagnose Dershowitz, “but [was] rather commenting on a widespread phenomenon of ‘shared psychosis.’”
Dershowitz commented on the lawsuit: “[Lee] credits me with getting her fired. I’m not that powerful. I am pleased with the fact that I brought to Yale’s attention the facts that demonstrate her deviation from professional norms. The facts are the facts, and Yale acted on the documented facts, not on my opinion.”

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Yale Prof Said Trump Supporters Had ‘Shared Psychosis.’ Yale Terminated Her. Now She’s Filed A Complaint.

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