Guru Grapewine

Psychiatry and Psychology

Psychiatrists are glorified butchers. Forty years ago psychiatrists needed knives to turn human beings into vegetables. Today in the year 2007 psychiatrists can turn a person into a vegetable with a pharmaceutical laboratory.

The goal of Western psychology is adjustment. The goal of Eastern psychology is enlightenment. Sigmund Freud said that the purpose  of psychiatry  is to make hysterically unhappy neurotic people-normally unhappy and neurotic. If society is crazy how can being adjusted to society be good? I say be in harmony  with the cosmos rather than the Cosmopolitan