What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Teutone]

Looks fucking epic lol

Is it good?

[Ford]

Looks fucking epic lol

Is it good?

Yes, very historical and realistic.

[Teutone]

Yes, very historical and realistic.

LOL

But seriously I like alternate history and freaky plots

Do you got it as paperback or pdf?

[Ford]

LOL

But seriously I like alternate history and freaky plots

Do you got it as paperback or pdf?

I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm actually not reading it. I just thought it looked funny

[Teutone]

I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm actually not reading it. I just thought it looked funny

But I wanna actually read it mate

how you found it

[Ford]

But I wanna actually read it mate

how you found it

I don't remember exactly. There was a period a few years ago when I was obsessed with scifi and accidentally stumbled upon this. I just saved the image because I thought it was so damn funny.

[Incal]

The Psychopath. A little outdated due to its date of publication but most of its content remains valid to this day:

[PHDNM]

Léon Degrelle - Hitler Democrat

http://www.balderexlibris.com/index..../Degrelle-Leon

[JamesBond007]

Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
by Robert Spalding (Goodreads Author)

China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.

The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure--and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese.

In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China's most brilliant ploys, including:

- Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.

- Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.

- Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.

Spalding's concern isn't merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights.

Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it's still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat--and win--China's stealth war.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...94-stealth-war

[JamesBond007]

Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane. Until the end of the nineteenth century, every relationship between psychiatrist and patient was based on domination and coercion, as between master and slave. Psychiatry, its emblem the state mental hospital, was a part of the public sphere, the sphere of coercion.

The advent of private psychotherapy, at the end of the nineteenth century, split psychiatry in two: some patients continued to be the involuntary inmates of state hospitals; others became the voluntary patients of privately practicing psychotherapists. Psychotherapy was officially defined as a type of medical treatment, but actually was a secular-medical version of the cure of souls. Relationships between therapist and patient, Thomas Szasz argues, was based on cooperation and contract, as is relationships between employer and employee, or, between clergyman and parishioner. Psychotherapy, its emblem the therapist's office, was a part of the private sphere, the contract.

Through most of the twentieth century, psychiatry was a house divided-half-slave, and half-free. During the past few decades, psychiatry became united again: all relations between psychiatrists and patients, regardless of the nature of the interaction between them, are now based on actual or potential coercion. This situation is the result of two major "reforms" that deprive therapist and patient alike of the freedom to contract with one another: Therapists now have a double duty: they must protect all mental patients-involuntary and voluntary, hospitalized or outpatient, incompetent or competent-from themselves. They must also protect the public from all patients.

Persons designated as mental patients may be exempted from responsibility for the deleterious consequences of their own behavior if it is attributed to mental illness. The radical differences between the coercive character of mental hospital practices in the public sphere, and the consensual character of psychotherapeutic practices in the private sphere, are thus destroyed. At the same time, as the scope of psychiatric coercion expands from the mental hospital to the psychiatrist's office, its reach extends into every part of society, from early childhood to old age.

Editorial Reviews
Review

"The book is readable and challenging; readers will never see psychiatry in the same way again."

—Choice

"Szasz now appears to have been transformed into an ally rather than an enemy of the National Health Service general adult psychiatrist. Szasz's project has always been to argue passionately for a boundry of demarcation around the responsibility and power of psychiatry....But what saves this book from being just another mugging of psychiatry is that Szasz does raise a fundamental question at the core of our discipline. If we restricted our attention only to those clients who wanted to see a psychiatrist, and disengaged from all those who really didn't, how different might our professional practice and experience be?"

—The British Journal of Psychiatry

“In Liberation by Oppression . . . his latest thrust at the therapeutic state and psychiatric mendacity, Szasz leaves no doubt as to the legitimacy and credibility of his arguments. Masquerading as therapy and working under the name of medicine, present-day psychiatry subjects its patients (victims) to the most heinous forms of mental and physical oppression. Comparing psychiatry to slavery may seem extreme at first glance, but as Szasz expands his argument, we find his reasoning profound and convincing. Because the state proclaims that psychiatry is a branch of medicine and that all mental diseases are brain diseases, psychiatry takes ever-greater control of people and their behaviors. With the power forcibly to drug, restrain, and imprison, it occupies the throne of the therapeutic state. Despite all of its self-proclaimed efforts to “free” persons from their “illnesses,” it actually oppresses and confines them. Therapeutic enslavement by psychiatry is worse than all the forms of political slavery the world has endured thus far. . . . Liberation by Oppression is a valiant and worthy effort by one of the great modern thinkers to keep the flame of liberty burning. It is a bold, powerful, and intellectually spirited debunking of the psychiatric pseudoscience that debases the human spirit and damages countless lives. Szasz’s message urgently needs to reach both those who value science and those who share the values of the Declaration of Independence. It is a masterful defense of both reason and individual rights.”

—Robert A. Baker, Independent Review

"Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology."

—Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University

https://www.amazon.com/Liberation-Op...6052678&sr=8-2