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TheProphetFromTrailopenDotCom on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:08:19 AM
HS Sullivan,the most gifted american psychiatrist in history (80% social recovery rate amongst hospitalized schizophrenics b4 the age of anti-psychotic drugs), had this to say about those people treating paranoids and incipient schizophrenics engaging in homoerotic behavior:
"As I have indicated earlier, I think that the whole business of the homosexual entity as an explanation is always to be looked pretty firmly in the face by psychiatrists who attempt to effect any great improvement in the mental health of the patient. One should determine whether this entity is the organization of a definite integrating tendency that satisfies a need or whether it is a complex mental disorder in which the homosexuality is present because it so perfectly fortifies some abnormal mental process, some dynamism of difficulty.
(This situation reflected my own and may be found at www.trailopen.com)
"... then I think one is doing a great violence to the therapeutic principle to accept the notion that that person has anything like a simple drive to secure genital satisfaction by any type of behavior with members of the same sex.
To work on this assumption, and to deal with this patient’s “homosexuality,’ is, to my way of thinking, one of the most vicious miscarriages of therapeutic situations. It takes out of the culture a group of terms, which, in referring to behavior, carry all the culture’s evaluations of that behavior.
You see, if the patient has not found great warmth and satisfaction in intimacy with a member of his own sex, but later on is told by a psychiatrist that such intimacy is what he is after – or has, by his own paranoid processes, come to feel that that is what he is after, and the psychiatrist agrees with him–then he and the psychiatrist are talking about something that is, in its ultimate essence, merely a revolting difference between him and good people. That is all.
It has been rumored that Sullivan himself was homosexual, but the differences between an individual Sullivan describes regarding this state and the obsessive lusts of perverts-hanging-around-public-toilets is a whole nother animal; and one which should be kept out of married life and consequent access to our Adoption Agencies.