Eminent psychiatrist: Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder

[Little-Acorn]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56494

Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder

Posted: February 15, 2008
3:40 pm Eastern

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."

For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

[Hagbard Celine]

Thank you. I'll keep this book in mind for the next time I run out of toilet paper.

[glockmail]

Thank you. I'll keep this book in mind for the next time I run out of toilet paper.

Closed minded much?

[Little-Acorn]

Closed minded much?

How do you figure? He just said he would apply it to his mind when needed.

We can ask no more from a flaming leftist.

[Abbey Marie]

Thank you. I'll keep this book in mind for the next time I run out of toilet paper.

Kind of buttresses (pun intended) the author's assertions (pun intended again), doesn't it?

[truthmatters]

Well , well , well.

I guess anyone who was convicted on his testimony will now have grounds to have their convictions overturned because this proves he is insane.

Hes retired now.

He never would have written this clap trap while he needed employment.

He is a forenzic pshyciatrist and would have never gotten another contract to testify at a trial if he had.

How many convicts lawyers are now reviewing their cases because he has been proven to be a right wing hack?

[Dilloduck]

Well , well , well.

I guess anyone who was convicted on his testimony will now have grounds to have their convictions overturned because this proves he is insane.

Hes retired now.

He never would have written this clap trap while he needed employment.

He is a forenzic pshyciatrist and would have never gotten another contract to testify at a trial if he had.

How many convicts lawyers are now reviewing their cases because he has been proven to be a right wing hack?

Having a mental disorder doesn't mean one is insane.

[Gaffer]

I think he pegged liberals pretty well. And his opinion of politicians has nothing to do with his ability to perform his job or testify in court. Nor does his overall opinion of liberals.

[jimnyc]

Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

I wonder how he would comment if he did a "study" on TM? He would probably conclude that "96% of her brain cells have evaporated due to being dormant for so long".

[glockmail]

Well , well , well.

I guess anyone who was convicted on his testimony will now have grounds to have their convictions overturned because this proves he is insane.

Hes retired now.

He never would have written this clap trap while he needed employment.

He is a forenzic pshyciatrist and would have never gotten another contract to testify at a trial if he had.

How many convicts lawyers are now reviewing their cases because he has been proven to be a right wing hack?

How does this disqualify him for being hired or used as an expert? Isn't he entitled to his opinion, medical or otherwise?

[truthmatters]

He has an obvious problem being objective.

If this book had been written while he was in practice a lawyer could have brought the book up in his vetting for testimony and he would have very likely been deemed a biased witness. You see we do have judges who might find such rabid politizing ones own profession as an indicator that someone has a hard time being unbiased.

[jimnyc]

He has an obvious problem being objective.

You just summed yourself up in one short and sweet sentence. Just add an "S" before your first letter and you're all set.

[Hobbit]

So a scientist's methods and data are automatically fraudulent because you don't like the conclusion? I'm somewhat skeptical, as I am of most types of mental illness, but I'm not going to dismiss what he has to say until I see some facts.

[Dilloduck]

So a scientist's methods and data are automatically fraudulent because you don't like the conclusion? I'm somewhat skeptical, as I am of most types of mental illness, but I'm not going to dismiss what he has to say until I see some facts.

Mental disorders and mental illness aren't the same but I can certainly agree that a lot of the science is pretty vague. Some, however is quite precise.

[Yurt]

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Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

* creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
* satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
* augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
* rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

those naysayers out there, care to factually or logically show how this theory is wrong? fly by crap in the cans don't count....