Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

[babylonsister]

I know, I know, WorldNutDaily, there's so much wrong with this, but I had to laugh and hope you do, too.



Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts
Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder


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.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

more...:rofl:

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[ananda]

1. Oh yeah?! Look at what conservatives actually do and believe!

How much actual harm to people and the planet has been done by liberals
as compared to conservatives?

I'd say that conservatives and Reeps are so dishonest and sociopathic that
they could be considered clinically inhuman.

[roguevalley]

39. here's his background, puffed up I am sure. Note how his 'lectures' end in 2004

I would imagine that people decided not to invite quacks to talk to formative minds:

http://www.forensicpsychiatrist.com/cv.htm

Don't even try to understand it. this is a boy with a grudge and a sick world view. his education was made possible by liberal policies and I suppose that gives him gas.

[wolfgangmo]

44. Ignoring for a moment that he went to the U of C ...

... that hotbed of such lunacy as Friedmanites, let's look at the numbers.



My wife is a doctor and I run our clinic. 1500 patients in 35 years. That is about 43 a year. That means this man was either pathetically underscheduled or he sucked. There are only a few areas of work for doctors who are that inept. They either work for insurance companies writing reports to deny treatment or they do the same work for insurance lawyers. And this appears to be what he did.



I wouldn't take him seriously. Point out to anyone who brings this up that he likely was not competent enough to build a practice and maintain a client list. He was a failed doctor and this seems to be his last hope for enough beer money to get him through retirement in a stupor.

[barbtries]

2. that dude is out of his mind.

i work my ass off and am proud to be labeled liberal. and i am a grown up. what a frigging tool. the difference is imo that i care about people while so-called "conservatives" do not. i do not share the ends justify the means mentality, especially when the ends are greed based. jeez

[ixion]

3. for making stupid blanket statements like that, while ignoring the blatant psychosis that is the GOP

he should have his license revoked, IMO.

[I Have A Dream]

22. Yeah, don't you pity his poor patients? What terrible harm he must be doing to them.

x(

[OHdem10]

4. Could he be a Randian who suscribes to the "Virtues of Selfishness"

[samplegirl]

5. This man is in serious need

of a doctor!!!!!!!

[Berry Cool]

6. And I suppose conservatives wanting an authoritative "Daddy figure" as their president is mature?

Just sayin'.

[moose65]

8. I was thinking the same thing!

Conservatives are the ones who always spout "My country, right or wrong" and "Love it or leave it." They have no empathy, no conscience, no nuance. The very definition of childishness. I swear, this kind of stuff makes my head explode. IF they don't want a "paternal government," then why the hell are they always hung up over these flag-burning amendments, marriage amendments, etc. One would think they would want the Constitution to be as short as possible!

[saltpoint]

7. Me and my imaginary friends agree with Dr. Rossiter.

[underpants]

9. He praises Jonah Goldberg and Kathleen Parker here on Townhall.com

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LyleHRossiterJrMD/2008/02/15/images_of_barack_and_hillary&Comments=true

Kathleen Parker made a point?

[DavidDvorkin]

10. His title, psychiatrist, disqualifies him from making such judgments

[cbayer]

28. You did not just say that? You are kidding, right? nt.

[sam sarrha]

11. Brain Scans show that ReThug brains have diminished Perceptual capacities, ..they are just stupid

http://librocrat.blogspot.com/2007/10/conservatives-and-liberals-have.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+Conservatives+brains+different&btnG=Search

Republican Party Platform is based on Milton Friedman's totally failed schizophrenic Machiavellian Theory's of free market philosophy, Totally unrestrained Corporatism, unprotected workers and the general torture and murder of anyone who disagrees or looks like they might dissagree or was given up in torture just to make it stop.

the system does not work, and when it doesn't he professes that it didn't work because not enough people suffered, were tortured to death or murdered..

see Naomi Klein's .. 'Shock Doctrine:the rise of disaster capitalism' it explains the total insanity of Conservatism, it is 558 pages, of which 92 are footnotes and index. this isn't a cheap propaganda rag.. it is the book of the century. it explains it all..

see Iraq today, the neglect of the Russian economy after the soviet fall, see 70'/80's chaos/murder in Argentina/Chile/Uruguay/Guatemala/El Salvador.. all direct intrusions by the Chicago Institute.. in an attempt to totally destroy the country, its people's national identity thu torture mas public murder and genocide, its economy, culture.. total gut wrenching chaos from which will rise Friedman's delusional "Utopia". when will his madness end.... probably not until the last Republican is institutionalized and prevented from Breeding

[DCKit]

12. ^ The definition of "PROJECTION"

If I didn't have several RW family members and other acquaintances who excel in delusion and projection, I'd almost be caught off-guard, perhaps even shocked by the article.

BTW, notice the swipe at Hillary - "...vast right-wing conspiracy."

We can laugh, but too many people eat this shit and call it delicious.

[truth2power]

13. Oh, the University of Chicago....that explains it..

Probably hanging around with those guys in the School of Economics. :eyes:

[formercia]

30. Did his practicum under Dr. Mengele

and post doc in Chile under Pinochet.

[nashville_brook]

41. my thought exactly!

[postulater]

14. Anytime I hear a psychiatrist say something I know the truth is the

exact opposite.

[NikolaC]

15. Gosh!

What a sick twist! Time for someone to have his license revoked. :freak:

[bemildred]

16. Another "doughy pantload".

He's a disgrace to psychiatry too, simply based on some of the simple-minded ignorant things he says. All these stereotypes, and only about "modern liberals".

[I Have A Dream]

23. What's up with this "modern liberal" vs. old-school liberal differentiation?

I had someone say it to me recently, so I'm thinking that someone on the right has started spouting off about this, and everyone else is just jumping on the bandwagon like little sheep by using this new "talking point". :eyes:

[bemildred]

25. Didn't you get the handout?

The thing about these propaganda public relations efforts is that you have to guard against boredom or your targets stop paying attention. Entertainment-wise you are competing with "survivor" and the like. And this means that you have to make up new terminology every so often, even if the new stuff is as empty of meaning as the old stuff was. I doubt that most "conservative" true believers could give you a workable definition of what "liberal" meant when they used it, and the same is most likely true of what "modern liberal" means. It's just another buzz-word.

I must admit this is the first time I've seen that usage, but I don't expect it will be around long anyway.

[Irishonly]

17. Oh MY LOL

I thought about being insulted for an instant and then I started to laugh. I am just glad I wasn't holding my coffee.:rofl:

[yurbud]

18. yep. any normal person wouldn't give a crap if someone else dies without health insurance (or,

because the insurance company withholds benefits the sicko paid for) gets their house foreclosed by unregulated mortgage scammers, or gets their baby and grandma burned to death with white phosphorus because they had the misfortune to be born on top of ExxonMobil's God-given oil in Iraq.

[yurbud]

19. great comments on this over at Digg (LINK) one guy says US politicis have moved so far left...

GOP is where Dems used to be, and Dems are where commies used to be.

http://digg.com/politics/Top_psychiatrist_concludes_liberals_are_nuts

[EstimatedProphet]

53. Good God what a warped site

Apparently, being liberal I am Marxist, nanny-statist, suicidal, and want to kill babies. Do those idiots even listen to the crap they spout?

[trthnd4jstc]

20. Let's see, We have Incongruities between the Constitution, and how Govt. Bevaves.

Being a Liberal is about believing in Social Justice. Believing in opportunity for all people, and not just the elites.

This book is going to make him a lot of money, which is why he wrote it, but even though he has a doctorate, he obviously is a partisan, and a propagandist, excerpted from the thread, "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." He has me wrong. Also, I believe that the majority of liberals carry their orn responsibilities. Further, I do not demand that the government does not meet my needs, but I am tired of the government giving special privileges to the wealthy, like the No-bid contracts given to the non-liberal corporation, Halliburton. What sort of mental disorder is this? It is called Crony Capitalism!

Later from this book review:

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.

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I will respond as such:

1. The wealthy have the most connections, and have been using their power to get policy set for their own interests, this is unfair, and not per the 14th Amendment which provides for equal justice under the law. If there was a fair play, then the population would not be in an inferior position. Further, it shows how Heartless Dr. Rossiter is, he is reminding me of what Nazi Psychologists used to say about those that needed the Final Solution.

2. Further, Liberals wish to end victimization. And it is not infantile to want the words of our Social Contract, The Constitution, and its Amendments to apply to all people, not just the Rich, and Connected. Also, we are not wishing infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence, and compensation, we are actually wishing for policies which solve the problems of this world. There is not equal distribution of wealth and resources, and when the government gives one group more power to control such, this must be addressed, for the sake of justice.

3. Liberals do not reject the sovereignty of the individual, nor wish to subordinate him to the will of the government. We wish to increase the sovereignty of the individual, and lift him up to be more equal in opportunity. We believe that the government can be a tool of helping people become more sovereign, that the Government is not the enemy, but a tool.

The obvious reason Dr. Rossiter wrote this book is to make money, which it will. I will request it at my library so I may read it, but there is no way, I will give him any money. He is a propagandist.

[yurbud]

21. My serious comment on DIGG:

Tell me where the mental illness is in this:

You and I have a contract. You break it. You are rich enough that you donate money to politicians to lean on regulators and law enforcement not to punish you if you break the contract, and at the same time punish me if I don't keep up my side of the contract. That doesn't seem right.

Or ten people go into business together. Five bring their work and creativity, and five bring the money they inherited or made from other investments. How should the profits be divided? Knowing that "profit" usually comes from paying people less than their labor is worth and selling the product for more than it's worth, the workers get together to bargain for a larger share of the profits. The five with the money tells us to look for a job elsewhere, but their are only three companies that sell the same product, and they all have similar labor practices. Every time the companies combine, they become more powerful and the workers less so. So the workers decide to combine too to have more leverage in bargaining with the companies. But the company has again paid the politicians to make it more difficult for workers to consolidate their bargaining power the way those with money do by consolidating corporations, especially across international borders.

Or when the public has an asset of value like oil, coal, or trees on public land, those with a lot of money take that asset and pay only a token amount, in this case, claiming that their work is worth far more than our assets.

Or someone joins the military expecting to protect their country from foreign enemies and finds instead that they are seizing natural resources for businesses who don't intend to share the profits with those who seized them or paid for them to be seized.

Democrats and Progressives are not communists, we simply want capitalism with umpires who can't be bought.

And when the private sector has proven themselves untrustworthy with some essential service like water, electricity, or health care, seeing it as an opportunity to blackmail and extort the public, those services should either be strictly regulated or revert to public agencies.

Somebody tell me how any of that is mental illness.

[Divine Discontent]

24. Denmark sure is doing pretty well it seems being cared about

from cradle to the grave...

shame on this quack and all he misleads due to their mental weakness or naive mindset.

[Demeter]

26. That's Classic Projection--REPUTABLE Testing Has Shown that

Conservatives are suffering from real, diagnosible and treatable mental illness.

What motivates Conservatives

Several researchers have arrived at an explanation of the underlying
motivations for taking conservative attitudes.


Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about
the psychology of conservatism report that


at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a
tolerance for inequality,


and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political
conservatism include:


Fear and aggression


Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity


Uncertainty avoidance


Need for cognitive closure


Terror management


"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of
contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either
independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article,
"Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published
in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.


The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for
certainty, are particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative
thought - the resistance to change or hanging onto the status quo, they
said.


The terror management feature of conservatism can be seen in post-Sept. 11
America, where many people appear to shun and even punish outsiders and
those who threaten the status of cherished world views, they wrote.


Concerns with fear and threat, likewise, can be linked to a second key
dimension of conservatism - an endorsement of inequality, a view reflected
in the Indian caste system, South African apartheid and the conservative,
segregationist politics of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South S.C.).


http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml


Of course we know that conservatives will not accept this, because they
don't like scientists.


From the Washington Monthly
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.thompson.html


http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2007/09/20/liberal-conservative-brain-differences/

[immoderate]

27. "The purpose of psychiatry is to provide a vocabulary for insulting people."

That's a quote from Thomas Szasz, MD in The Myth of Mental Illness. This is an example.

--IMM

[LeftishBrit]

29. Urgh!

I pity his patients, that's all I can say.

[Prophet 451]

31. Top opinionist says psychiatrist is a partisan hack

Then again, he's only saying what Rush and Bill-O have been spewing for years.

[nikto]

33. Konservatives last weapon---PROJECTION

Projection goeth before a fall.

[DavidMS]

52. Do you think its a little childish?

Like "I'm rubber, you're glue..." There have been a number of studies that build on years (50+) dealing with authoritarianism, right wing extremism, and related social diseases. We are finally getting to the point where the condition is understandable. Maybe http://www.maps.org/sys/nq.pl?id=1475&fmt=page">MDMA therapy? It is all based on fear after all.

[melody]

32. He's pre-determining what a 'liberal mind' is and then diagnosing it

Real psychiatrists would recognize there is insanity in every extreme, right and left. This guy is either a moron
or a paid quack.

[nikto]

35. He is clearly a rightwing tool for attacking Dems & Libs

Oh goody, another GOP operative.

Most likely, he's in a secret hot relationship with a 9-year old.
Boy or girl--either one will do for Rossiter, I'm sure.

It's a safe bet, because he is obviously a partisan GOPer (he loves attacking Dems in general).

Most GOPers have some child-abuse in their life (either as giver or receiver).

Or maybe he's just another self-hating rightwing closet case in denial.




The GOP has an endless supply of human scum to attack America with.

[melody]

36. The Bush machine no doubt has pictures of him with a Schnauzer and a nine year old

That's the way the bastards do business.

BTW, I was a "receiver" of child abuse and I've never, ever been anything close to a Republican, though my "giver"
definitely was.

[Prophet 451]

37. I'd go for the latter

This guy is pre-defining an illness and then assembling the facts to fit so he's either a quack, a partisan hack, both or is himself mentally ill (you'd be amazed at the number of psychiatrists and psychologists who have serious issues themselves).

[melody]

38. The fellow on whom Harris partly based Hannibal Lecter was a psychiatrist

They're not necessarily icons of sanity. lol

[Mythsaje]

34. Hey, buddy...your Fraudian slip is showing.

What nonsense. Trying to say that all liberals are the same is his first mistake. Many of us just want government to honor its contract with us, to protect us from predation by the very institutions we allegedly license to conduct business in our country. We expect the government to protect the public interest and make sure we're getting an equitable return on our taxes. If they're going to take the money, they should at least make sure we're gaining something from it--not handing it all off to mega-corporations currently seeing record profits.

This guy is a hack and a quack. Anyone who sees him on a professional basis needs his or her head examined.

[From The Left]

40. Dr. Laura Schleshinger Let Her Mother Die Alone

She said liberals are ill and gays are biological errors.

She also let her mother die alone in her Beverly Hills apartment. Her body was found dissolved into the carpet.

I've never met an emotionally healthy rightwinger. Ever.

[provis99]

42. graduated U of Chicago. Well, that alone proves he's full of crap

Sounds like he studied psychiatry under Leo Strauss and the U of Chicago political science department, crypto-fascists to a man.

[vankuria]

43. What would this so called "Dr." consider sane?

Perhaps Ann Coulter spewing vicious hatred and anti semitism all over the airwaves? Or perhaps Bill O'Reilly screaming racist propaganda about lynchings until his head is ready to explode? Or may-be our current president who has unresolved "daddy issues" and the only way he could prove himself was to seek the highest office in the world and do everything the opposite of his father even if it meant death and destruction to prove he's better?

To diagnose 1/2 the U.S. population as legally insane because their views are different from his is certifiably nuts if you ask me.

[struggle4progress]

45. It's th'brilliant doctor's 1st publication in over 40 years -- & it seems he even established

his own label "Free World Books LLC" t'publish it !!11! This despite his busy career testifying for hire !1!!1 Th'world of psychology must be electric with excitement

[IDemo]

46. Coocoo-servatism

Pathologizing Conservatism

Is it an unfortunate evolutionary holdover, or the product of bad upbringing?

Ronald Bailey | October 20, 2004

At the recent conference in Chicago of the Association of Politics and Life Sciences, a panel on "Biobehaviorial Approaches to Politics" addressed the important question: What is wrong with people who disagree with the mainstream of American academic social scientists? Nancy Meyer-Emerick, an assistant professor of public administration at Cleveland State University, made a presentation on "Evolutionary Perspectives on the Authoritarian Personality."

Professor Meyer-Emerick wants to know if there are genetic tendencies that promote what she dubs "authoritarianism." She defines this distasteful quality through the work of University of Manitoba associate professor of psychology Robert Altemeyer. He's developed a helpful questionnaire, the Right Wing Authoritarian (RWA) Scale, to identify those harboring authoritarian tendencies.

According to Professor Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians are cognitively rigid, aggressive, and intolerant. They are characterized by steadfast conformity to group norms, submission to higher status individuals, and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members. On the RWA Scale, subjects are asked to agree or disagree with statements like: "Some of the worst people in our country nowadays are those who do not respect our flag, our leaders and the normal way things are supposed to be done" and "There is absolutely nothing wrong with nudist camps." Guess which one RWAs tend to agree with?

http://www.reason.com/news/show/34935.html

[TheDoorbellRang]

47. So liberals "demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

Whereas the "sane" conservatives demand a parental government that meets their needs before the cradle and after the grave. :crazy:

[Prophet 451]

48. "Sane" conservatives demand that govt legitimise their prejudices

To be honest, I'm not even sure why we're all wasting time on this drek except we're all goofing off.

[MarinCoUSA]

49. Now we know who's really under Ann Coulter's blond wig!

It's a MMMAAAAAANNNNNNN baby!

Oh, and did Dr. Lyle also call liberals "faggots"?

[BR_Parkway]

50. So can I take the tax deduction now?

[mwb970]

51. What an absurd "analysis."

It's really not worth the time to comment on. I'm waiting for this "top psychiatrist" to turn his laser focus on conservatives. Now there is mental illness!

[corrupt_inc]

54. Haha!

Most people are insane, whether liberal or conservative.

But this is pretty funny :)