Because we are living in existential times

Because we are living in existential times

by | Nov 27, 2023 | Great Reads, Homeopathy, Hot Topics, Reading List | 0 comments

I am delighted to report that healthy sales of my Sane Asylums, the Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind emboldened my publisher Inner Traditions to roll the dice on another homeopathy book. The product of that gamble, The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, Homeopathy for Existential Stress (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Emotional-Roots-of-Chronic-Illness/Jerry-M-Kantor/9781644117842) was released on October 3.

An abating of the existential threats of climate change, environmental degradation, mushrooming proxy wars or nuclear proliferation, sadly is not at hand. In place of that what The Emotional Roots offers is: 

  • An introduction to five core existential questions and the tools for grappling with them
  • The explanation of how failure to reduce the charge of specific existential quandaries precipitates illness
  • A reformulation of existential psychology rooted in homeopathy and Traditional Chinese Medicine theory

In the words of the critics…
 
“This book will be eye-opening and mind-expanding for homeopaths, practitioners of TCM, and practitioners of existential psychology. For homeopaths, Kantor provides a new psychologically-based typology system that relates to both aspects of TCM and existential psychology; it will no doubt expand their patient analysis capabilities.  For practitioners of TCM and existential psychology, Kantor reveals the all-embracing and deeply symbolic nature of homeopathy, which is able to address not only emotional and mental problems, but physical ones as well; they will likely be inspired by homeopathy’s power and its potential utility for their patients. This is truly a wide-ranging book that weaves many threads together. It also provides numerous case examples and features Kantor’s free-form writing style, which completes the fascinating picture.”

~Amy L. Lansky, PhD, Author of Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy and Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within. (amylansky.com)

“Jerry Kantor is a gifted and experienced homeopath who thinks deeply about homeopathy and its applications to living beings. He has written this well-thought out, highly philosophical book that gets the reader to think about one’s existential reality and roots, to learn more about homeopathy and share how both relate to Traditional Chinese Medicine. He makes some easy to understand analogies using familiar movie and literary characters making his points easier to understand. An incredibly intellectual and poignant read!” 

~Abby Beale CCH RSHom (NA)

“What an interesting book this is. I find it enlightening, erudite, engaging and expressive. I like the local links between the 5 senses, the 5 Chinese phases and the 5 main miasms. The remedy portraits are picturesque, with delicately descriptive themes, sublime application of astute language, all in a context of world literature, philology and religion. Jerry Kantor’s use of language is masterful and highly engaging. I truly enjoyed reading it.”

~Frans Vermeulen, recognized throughout the homeopathic world as an author, lecturer and authority on materia medica.

“This book by Jerry Kantor gives good insights in the reactions between medicine and psychology. It points to the source of disease as psychological. Added to that is the relationship with philosophy which gives his work even further depth. It is a great book”

 ~Jan Scholten MD, Author of Homeopathy and the Elements, Secret Lanthanides and many other books

 “This remarkable synthesis of cutting-edge knowledge is rooted in ancient practices of Traditional Chinese medicine as well as in homeopathy’s futuristic, Western medical tradition. Five revelatory existential questions are introduced. Convincingly, each provides the subtext for health, epigenetics and emergent chronic illness. Offering case histories, clinical pearls, Greek myth analysis and much more, Kantor’s book is a stunning yet enjoyable read. Highly recommended.”

~Dana Ullman CCH, MPH

“Kantor provides an insightful overview of five core existential dilemmas that life presents, positing that our responses to these quandaries become embodied in specific symptoms and syndromes of mind and body.  He then describes homeopathic therapies relevant from this vantage point. His breathtaking perspective on the human condition will amply reward readers, from the lay public to professionals of any medical persuasion.”

~David Kailin, MPH, PhD

 “Insightful and thought-provoking. The first book to bring together existential philosophy, miasms and homeopathic solutions! Gripping in content and lucid in style. We enjoyed reading the book and so will every reader!”

~Dr. Bhawhisha and Dr. Shashchindra Joshi, MD (Hom). Mumbai, India

“Jerry Kantor uses his exceptional mastery of wit, metaphor and integrative healing resources of Homeopathy, Psychology and Chinese Medicine to help us understand how unique emotional and physical symptoms emerge as guides to mend the manifestations of chronic illness.” 

~Kenneth Silvestri, Ed.D., certified homeopath and psychotherapist

“Are you familiar with the sufferings (or inner torments) of the mythical Greek god Sisyphus, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Bartelby the Scrivener, and Phil Connors of the movie Groundhog Day? Jerry Kantor’s analysis of their existential plights and the remedy each needs is worth the price of admission.”

~Anuradha Dayal-Gulati, PhD., author of Heal Your Ancestral Roots


Spoiler alert, here are two of the five core questions and their clinical extensions:

“Can the boundary between life and death be abided?” 
Syphilitic Miasm/Hearing/Water Phase/Fear/Kidneys-Urinary Bladder

                         
  Vanitas Still Life by Pieter Claesz


“Will the insurrection of my life prove fruitful?” 
Cancer Miasm/Sight/Wood Phase/Anger/Liver-Gall Bladder

                                                               

 “Non inutilis vixi” (I have not lived in vain)
Inscribed on the Samuel Hahnemann Memorial, Washington DC

Resolving Malawi’s Cholera Crisis…An essential resource

Resolving Malawi’s Cholera Crisis…An essential resource

by | Feb 28, 2023 | Homeopathy, Hot Topics | 0 comments

Each year, cholera infects 1.3 to 4 million people around the world, killing 21,000 to 143,000 people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) (https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/history-of-cholera). With outbreaks in 31 countries in the past year, cholera’s most recent resurgence can no longer be ignored.

Cholera is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, an organism that typically lives in salty and warm waters such as estuaries and along coastal areas. V. cholerae is contracted from drinking liquids or eating foods contaminated with the bacteria, for example, raw or undercooked shellfish. So long as there are communities lacking access to clean water and sanitary bathrooms, the disease can erupt with shocking swiftness. A risk remains even where it had seemingly been eradicated. The cholera epidemic in the southern African country of Malawi provides a shocking example of the disease’s reemergence.

As reported in an article in the December 22, 2022, edition of the New York Times, “In a Nation That Nearly Wiped Out Cholera, the Disease Is Surging Back,” only two cases of cholera had been reported in 2021. Now, over the past eleven months, more than 28,000 cholera infections and at least 900 deaths have been reported in Malawi. The government is desperate to contain its spread. Though health experts say cholera typically kills only about 1 percent of infected people now, in the country’s worst cholera outbreak in two decades, Malawi’s death rate hovers at around an alarming 3.3 percent.

I have previously reported how, within a different context, treatment choice for today’s mentally troubled has been forfeited. At blame is the high-jacking of a history, an informational theft concerning the cover up of successful homeopathic psychiatry practiced within mental asylums from 1875 through the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century. (https://rightwhalepress.com/when-history-has-been-hijackedthe-narrative-must-be-seized-or-else-choice-is-forfeited/).

The topic of today’s blog is the fallout from similarly disastrous chicanery. I refer to the 1854 whitewashing of cholera research findings where key information was suppressed because it delivered unwelcome news for London’s orthodox physicians. Scrupulous documentation comparing the effectiveness of homeopathic care at London’s Golden Square Hospital with hospital care in orthodox medical settings revealed homeopathic care to be overwhelmingly superior. The disparity was too embarrassing to be acknowledged.

Author Michael Emmans Dean documents astonishing outcomes resulting from homeopathy’s employment of a small number of remedies (https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON426). The medicines providing safe and effective means against cholera are well-known to professional homeopaths. They include Veratrum Album, Arsenicum Album, Cuprum and Secale Cornutum.

Here is a thumb nail description of the remedies and their mental/emotional characteristics that when present render someone susceptible to contracting cholera or intensifying their illness experience:

    • Veratrum Album needing individuals have usually suffered loss of social position due to a life-up-ending event. Their delirium will feature distortion of perspective, self-righteousness sudden exhaustion and vomiting.
    • Arsenicum Album needing individuals are restless, anxious–especially for family members—perfectionistic, focused on death and aging. Diarrhea and exhaustion will be accompanied by chilliness or burning heat sensations.
    • Cuprum needing individuals are belligerent about how things should be, loud, physically tense, prone to violent cramping and vomiting.
    • Secale Cornutum needing individuals can be gripped by maniacal fear, but also be discouraged and mentally dull. For them, cholera features bloody, involuntary stools and icy cold skin, and gastritis with a strong burning sensation.

Unearthing this buried history taught Dean the truth of an adage attributed to Mark Twain, “The truth is easy to kill, a lie told well is immortal.” Dean had ostensibly dispelled a lie that homeopathy cannot work. Confronting this immortal falsehood, his article, published in the May, 2016 issue of the “Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,” was greeted with a collective yawn. Skepticism concerning homeopathy’s effectiveness and an established institutional bias against its practice allows hundreds if not thousands in countries such as Malawi to suffer and die unnecessarily. Oh well.

Background

Dean was aware that cholera haunted the nineteenth century. The origins of this painful and frightening new disease that might result in death within hours were unknown. All treatments employed were useless. The bacterial cause was not understood until 1883 and the gold standard of treatment, oral rehydration therapy, was not used until 1960.

Dean states, “Of the six 19th-century cholera pandemics, the third, in 1849–1860, resulted in the most fatalities. In Great Britain, there were 23,000 deaths, 10,000 in London alone. The government responded with an epidemiological survey and a comparative evaluation of rival treatments.” (Dean ME. Selective suppression by the medical establishment of unwelcome research findings: the cholera treatment evaluation by the General Board of Health, London 1854. J R Soc Med. 2016 May;109(5):200-5. doi: 10.1177/0141076816645057. PMID: 27150713; PMCID: PMC4872209).

A chart compiled by Dean, below, compares the number of cholera deaths reported by London’s Golden Square, the homeopathic hospital, with the combined totals of such deaths reported by St Thomas’s, St Bartholomew’s, St Mary’s, the Westminster, and the University College hospitals, each a bastion of allopathic medicine. With respect to stages 1 and 2, the homeopathic hospital recorded a 0.2% death rate as compared to a 0.6% death rate for the orthodox hospitals. With respect to the more serious stages 3 and 4, the homeopathic hospital had an 18.4% death rate as compared to a 46% death rate at the orthodox hospitals.

Sources: Medical Council (p. 87ff) and House of Commons.

In an unsolicited February 22, 1855, letter to the homeopathic hospital from district inspector David Macloughlin, an ardent opponent of homeopathy published in an official notice known as the Parliamentary Return, he wrote:

You are aware that I went to your hospital prepossessed against the homoeopathic system; that you had in me, in your camp, an enemy rather than a friend, and that I must therefore have seen some cogent reason there, the first day I went, to come away so favourably disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your charitable fund.

Macloughlin was no neophyte when it came to understanding how horrific cholera was. Dean notes, “As important as his prior hostility towards homeopathy was the fact that he (Macloughlin) had spent 20 years in India,” where in 1817 a lethal outbreak emerging in the Ganges Delta had spread throughout the entire country.

I need not tell you that I have taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise, progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and … claim for myself some rights to be able to recognise the disease, and to know something of what the medical treatment ought to be; … That there may be no misapprehension about the cases I saw in your hospital, I will add, that all I saw were true cases of cholera, in the various stages of the disease; and that I saw several cases which did well under your treatment, which I have no hesitation in saying would have sunk under any other.

Macloughlin insisted that the homeopathic results should be placed “for accurate observation of the disease by the side of St Thomas’s, St Bartholomew’s, St Mary’s, the Westminster and the University College hospitals.” He concluded with:

…and what I have told everyone with whom I have conversed, that although an allopath by principle, education and practice, yet was it the will of Providence to afflict me with cholera, and to deprive me of the power of prescribing for myself, I would rather be in the hands of a homoeopathic than an allopathic adviser. 

The organization Homeopaths Without Borders provides homeopathic health care clinics in Haiti. In the event that a similar initiative in Malawi or another country struggling with cholera is sought the agency so interested can contact me. 

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The organization Homeopaths Without Borders provides homeopathic health care clinics in Haiti. In the event that a similar initiative in Malawi or another country struggling with cholera is sought the agency so interested can contact me. 

Quadruple Murder Suspect Bryan Kohberger and Visual Snow Syndrome…A homeopathic assessment

Quadruple Murder Suspect Bryan Kohberger and Visual Snow Syndrome…A homeopathic assessment

by | Feb 3, 2023 | Homeopathy, Hot Topics | 0 comments

Whether or not Bryan Kohberger is guilty of an apparently, motiveless crime, the murder of four women college students he did not know at the University of Idaho, finding out what makes someone like him tick is worthwhile. To a certain extent this is possible. Emerging details about Kohberger’s mental, emotional and physical state encourage me to weigh in with a homeopathic assessment.

The opportunity to treat Bryan Kohberger is obviously not at hand. But a teaching moment presents itself in that he can be scoped out through the lens of an indicated remedy. My choice is the homeopathic, Plumbum Metallicum, a medicine derived from the heavy metal, lead. The clinical “picture” of Plumbum offers a suggestion of a precious, peculiar and uncommon symptom from which it is known that Kohberger suffers: white snow in the visual field. Other features pertaining to Kohberger’s state that are in conformity with Plumbum Metallicum serve to confirm the aptness of his prescription.

Depersonalization and depression

Kohberger has reported suffering from extreme emotional depersonalization. In May 2011 he posted about having “depression, no interest in activity, constant thoughts of suicide, crazy thoughts, delusions of grandeur, anxiety, poor self-image, poor social skills, NO EMOTION.” The post concluded, “When I get home, I am mean to my family. This started when visual snow did. I felt no emotion and along with the depersonalization, I can say and do whatever I want with little remorse.”

In a July 2011 post, Kohberger is reported to have written, “I have had this horrible depersonalization go on in my life for almost two years. I often find myself making simple human interactions, but it is as if I am playing a role-playing game. … As I hug my family, I look into their faces, I see nothing, it is like I am looking at a video game, but less. … I am blank, I have no opinion, I have no emotion, I have nothing.”

Note: The Plumbum state features this “deadness” characteristic. In accordance with homeopathy’s “like cures like” principle, what the medicine treats reflects the fact that lead is a neurotoxin. Exposure to a gross amount (not the extreme homeopathic dilution) of the metal inactivates (deadens) the nerves.

What non-homeopaths may find amazing is that the symptom of “not recognizing his family” is explicitly referenced in Plumbum’s materia medica description.

Suicidal and grandiose

Kohberger wrote in May 2011 that he has depression, no interest in activity, constant thoughts of suicide, crazy thoughts, delusions of grandeur, anxiety, poor self-image, poor social skills. Conjecture: If Kohberger has in fact, committed the murders we can suppose that his mastering of criminal psychology as a doctoral criminology candidate fueled in him a grandiose “Leopold-Loeb thrill killer” certainty that he could get away with such a crime. The tortured mindset preceding his act is also reminiscent of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment protagonist Rodion Raskalnikov. The Plumbum state is consistent with such extreme thoughts.

Ambitious and heavy

In April 2011, in a thread by another user about possible benefits of visual snow syndrome, Kohberger wrote, “I have become very deep and determined on goals. It made me smarter.” The heaviness of a plumb bob provides a measure of verticality. Individuals needing Plumbum are “heavy” in that their mentality involves “downwardly directed” thinking, that is, inclined to a form of reasoning tending towards reductionism and dire conclusions.

Paranoia and emaciation

Two high school friends of Bryan Kohberger’s, Casey Arntz and an unnamed young woman, say Kohberger was overweight and was bullied a lot in high school, until his senior year, when he lost about one hundred pounds. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-murders-bryan-kohberger-accused-killer-friends-overweight-bullied-high-school/). Note: A well-known keynote of Plumbum is a paranoia that homeopathic literature likens to “fear of assassination.” The remedy is also prominent in rubrics, that is, its recommended use in the treatment of emaciation, wasting away or loss of weight.

Addictiveness and secrecy

Kohberger was a loner who, according to a high school friend, was also addicted to heroin. Note: addictiveness, which is also sometimes reflected in the Plumbum state, can extend to sexual delirium and excessive masturbation. Kohberger’s selection of female victims in relation to this cannot be ruled out.

Visual snow syndrome

Evidence of such a unique, peculiar, and uncommon symptom such as “visual snow” is a gift to the homeopath as it narrows the diagnostic search. Regardless of any other reason why a patient might visit a homeopath, the medicine he or she chooses will need to cover this specific symptom. When looking to understand or treat someone like Bryan Kohberger, the additional information matters because it provides context for a symptom as significant as visual snow.

Visual snow syndrome involves someone’s visual field being saturated with static. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), it is “a form of visual hallucination characterized by the perception of small, bilateral, simultaneous, diffuse, mobile, asynchronous dots usually throughout the entire visual field… present in all conditions of illumination, even with the eyes closed.” Its neurology is akin to that of migraine headache.

The AAO adds that that patients experiencing visual snow appear to have both cortical hyperexcitability and loss of inhibition of visual processing in the thalamo-cortico circuitry within the primary visual cortex. The thalamus is the body’s information relay station. Apart from smell, all sensory inputs are processed within the brain’s thalamus before being sent to the cerebral cortex for interpretation. Irregular function in the thalamus disrupts sleep, wakeful consciousness, learning and memory, all problems Kohberger has reported having.

A “Plumbum” painter, George Seurat

Courtesy of Top Doctors of the UK, the right side of the image below provides an example of visual snow syndrome in the optic field. Seeing this brings to mind the Post-Impressionist paintings of the French painter George Seurat, in particular his painting of the Eiffel Tower, shown below.

The Eiffel Tower by George Seurat

The “Yin and the Yang” of Plumbum

The similarity may not be coincidental. What is known of Seurat’s life, art, philosophy, and the common presence of lead in paints of his era suggests that an affinity with the Plumbum remedy is not out of the question. In that case, he may well have been propelled to paint according to how he visually perceived his surroundings.

Seurat was highly ambitious and hard working. He died at the age of 31 from an exhaustion-related illness. He was secretive, hiding the existence of a mistress from his friends. In 1884, based on a reductionistic philosophy, Seurat produced a breakthrough in his painting technique known as Divisionism or Chromoluminarism defined by the separation of colors into their least common denominator–individual dots or patches. The optical interpretation that results in the dots being combined into colors occurs in the brain, as opposed to beforehand, when the colors are presented to the eye via pigments that have been physically mixed.

For homeopaths, principally

With regard to art, the reductionist perspective of the remedy Plumbum is diametrically opposite that of another remedy closely associated with Impressionism. This would be Phosphorus whose purview includes connectedness, fuzziness, sensitivity to impressions and a “permeability of boundaries” theme.

Analysis of Bryan Kohberger’s symptoms and features (known as repertorization within homeopathy) led me to select Plumbum utilized the following rubrics:

  • Vision spots
  • Vision snow
  • Suicidal
  • Mind secretive
  • Emaciation
  • Violent ideas

What might we expect from treating Bryan Kohberger with Plumbum?

Please note! Not every individual needing Plumbum is murderous or suicidal. Most typically the remedy is called for in cases of cognitive dysfunction as with lead-poisoned children, or to treat various kinds of dementia. Still, on the basis of “see something, say something,” it might have been beneficial had Bryan Kohberger been directed to a homeopath. Prescription of the remedy may have rendered his depression less extreme, helped him overcome his depersonalization and diminished the severity of his visual snow symptom and related distress. We will never know.

Homeopathy and the assessment of other murderers

For a homeopathic assessment of the Unibomber, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the reader is encouraged to read Sane Asylums, The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind. There, Kaczynski is looked at through the lens of the remedy, Anacardium Orientale. The reader will also learn that prominent homeopathic physicians Selden Talcott and Samuel Worcester were called upon to provide expert testimony regarding the sanity of Charles Guiteau who, in 1881 assassinated President James Garfield.

Homeopathy and the assessment of other murderers

For a homeopathic assessment of the Unibomber, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the reader is encouraged to read Sane Asylums, The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind. There, Kaczynski is looked at through the lens of the remedy, Anacardium Orientale. The reader will also learn that prominent homeopathic physicians Selden Talcott and Samuel Worcester were called upon to provide expert testimony regarding the sanity of Charles Guiteau who, in 1881 assassinated President James Garfield.

For more about the psycho-pharmaceutical industry’s shenanigans see:

New York’s Mayor to City’s Mentally Ill Homeless: We’re out of ideas so it’s “Back to the Cuckoo’s Nest” for You!

New York’s Mayor to City’s Mentally Ill Homeless: We’re out of ideas so it’s “Back to the Cuckoo’s Nest” for You!

by | Jan 10, 2023 | Homeopathy, Hot Topics | 0 comments

In November 2022, Mayor Eric Adams of New York announced that even when the mentally ill homeless pose no threat to others city, officials can sweep them up and deliver them to hospitals.  New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board already receives hundreds of complaints against the police each year from individuals brought to hospitals against their will. The directive’s impact on civil liberties, not to mention the already helpless homeless, promises to be even more dire. Who is behind this fiasco?

I ask this question as someone who spent years investigating a little-known aspect of the history of psychiatry—the rise and fall of the homeopathic asylums and sanitariums. That history provides a portrait of the “insane”—or the “seriously mentally ill—much at odds with the societal picture today of homeless people with schizophrenia who are a threat to public safety. In the pre-psycho-pharm era mental illness signified a loss of wherewithal in the face of life challenges.

Rather than an inborn problem insanity was a pitiable condition caused by a combination of factors such as exhaustion, inebriation, improper thinking, and bad habits. Given rest, decent nutrition, homeopathy, instruction in moral hygiene, engagement in fruitful activity, and a dose of humor (the nurses offered “giggle” classes) these could be dealt with. An asylum superintendent in Middletown New York noticed that watching baseball benefitted sanity, so he created a powerhouse team to represent his hospital. On days when patients spectated their team’s (the Asylums) games against other institutions or visiting major league squads it was documented that the patients were markedly better.

A farce to be reckoned with

Getting back to New York City, the doctor who, having gained Mayor Adams’s ear, promotes this regressive agenda garnering front-page attention in the New York Times of 12/11/22 is E. Fuller Torrey. Click Here for Video.

A psychiatrist obsessed with violence among the mentally ill, Dr. Torrey is dedicated to their involuntary hospitalization. The apparent reason for his crusade is that, once upon a time, psychoanalysis failed to cure his sister, Rhoda, of schizophrenia. He might have sought other horses to flog. As readers of the Compendium of Madness Perspectives (an appendix in my book, Sane Asylums, The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind) know, a multitude of theories, models, cultural vantage points and treatments other than psychoanalysis have their own perspectives on what we call schizophrenia.

A red flag?

Torrey is a Janus, a man with more than one face.

With the 1984 publication of his book, Delusions, The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’s, the public was introduced to a Dr. Torrey having little in common with today’s version. A psychiatrist on staff at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., where the fascist poet Ezra Pound was held, Dr. Torrey joined forces with the renowned anti-psychiatrists of his day–Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing, and Robert Coles–to oppose a view, held by the literary establishment and by his own psychiatric colleagues, that Pound was mentally ill.

Come again? In 1984 a homeopathic head of psychiatry?

Oh, brave new world! Among those that Dr. Torrey butted heads with was Dr. Winfred Overholser, a homeopathic physician and superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., the most prestigious of the psychiatrists who declared Pound insane. A former president of the New England Society of Psychiatrists and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Overholser, in 1947, became president of the American Psychiatric Association.

Psychoanalysis’ hash is settled

Having settled the hash of psychoanalysis, an updated edition of Dr. Torrey set about beating the drum for what, in his mind, remained head-shrinking’s sole rival, the myth that a biological basis for psychosis and schizophrenia exists, promulgated by the psycho-pharmaceutical complex.

The nonexistence of such a link is convincingly shown by evidence drawn directly from psycho-pharmacological research. For having brought the information to light we have to thank Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, and Anatomy of an Epidemic, as well as Eliot Valenstein, author of Blaming the Brain. Granted, few look into this, but my own random samplings of the case histories of violent, mentally ill individuals more often than not implicate psycho-pharmacological medication as a primary factor. Given how even the most casual perusal of the onerous “side”-effects of anti-psychotic (neuroleptic) drugs makes clear, this is no surprise.

Is the severity of a violent act a useful measure of mental disturbance? How much “crazier” is an angry person discharging a firearm that our lax laws virtually hand to him, than a similar individual residing in a country that denies him access to lethal weaponry and opportunity to pull their triggers?

The mentally ill comprise a complex population in which the challenges of poverty, familial dysfunction, domestic abuse, social injustice, cognitive impairment, and racism overlap. The mentally ill are far more likely to be the victims of violence than its perpetrators. For being tone deaf to the issues, over-simplifying and exaggerating mental illness’ relation to violence Dr. Torrey is reviled by patient advocacy groups. He has also been called out for denying the connection between psychological trauma and mental disturbance. Because Dr. Torrey insists that the mentally ill are too dangerous not to be hospitalized, practitioners of conventional psychiatry devoted to outpatient treatment and deinstitutionalization disdain him as well.

“If only I had the brains!”

In 1989 Torrey founded the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI). There, searching for signs of the viral connection Dr. Torrey insists causes schizophrenia, dozens of his researchers slice, dice and pore over the brains of deceased, mentally ill individuals. The largest brain bank in the world, SMRI did not always have the scruples to obtain permission from the newly deceased’s family prior to harvesting the brains of their late relative. Following its settlement with an aggrieved family, SMRI was compelled to desist from its ghoulish efforts to corner the market on brains. In doing so, the organization smugly asserted that, no matter, the Institute had by then already acquired sufficient cerebral tissue.

Dr. Torrey oversaw his sister, Rhoda’s, psychiatric hospitalization during long stretches when she languished in Marcy State Hospital and Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Hospital. While there, despite not receiving any further psychoanalytic treatment, her schizophrenia stubbornly resisted cure. Cheated out of the opportunity to harvest Rhoda’s brain following her death at the age of seventy in 2010 and deprived of the chance to extract and brandish its telltale virus, Dr. Torrey was doubtless left gnashing his teeth.

Dr. Torrey, who has written twenty-one books and two hundred papers, is lionized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a group that, despite heavy funding from the pharmaceutical industry, promotes itself with a straight face as a “grass roots” organization.

NAMI annually holds a high-profile traumatic brain injury conference where the latest developments in radiology, diagnosis, prevention, coping and brain trauma’s relation to the Pandemic can be showcased. As for actual treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI)? That is a separate matter. Year after year, little other than quiet seclusion in a dark room is on offer for those suffering TBI’s debilitating long-term effects.

Homeopathy on the other hand, features remedies that its practitioners routinely employ to eradicate brain trauma’s acute and lingering effects. The curative impact for TBI of homeopathic medicines such as Arnica, Natrum Sulphuricum andCicuta Virosa is an open secret. Full disclosure: no brains were harvested to determine these TBI remedies’ (or any other homeopathic medicines‘) benefits. When I informed members of a local NAMI chapter of this they responded excitedly, agreeing that what homeopathy had to offer is worth discussing. Their enthusiasm was not shared by the annual conference planners, however. They preferred that, as with someone suffering from a migraine headache, NAMI’s audience is best off remaining in the dark. The leadership consigned my application to present to the circular file.

Paging Nurse Ratched

Mayor Adams’ embrace of Torrey, and his concession that de-institutionalization for the mentally ill is a disaster suggests that a return to the bad old days of psychiatric cuckoo nests beckons. Though New York City has 60,000 people living in shelters, it is the media’s focus on the unfortunate, relatively few street and subway encounters that is frightening New Yorkers. Feeling empowered to authorize sweeps of homeless encampments Adams has deputized teams of clinicians and police officers to provide “outreach” to subway vagabonds. Ostensibly this is to offer services. The outreach’s actual intent, to move the emotionally disturbed somewhere out of sight brings to mind a supposedly bygone practice, putting the unwelcome into carts and riding them out of town, the euphemism for which is “passing on.”

Mayor Adams’s embrace of Dr. Torrey and his concession that the deinstitutionalization program for the mentally ill is a disaster both suggest that a return to the bad old days of psychiatric cuckoo nests is beckoning. New York City has 60,000 people living in shelters, yet it is the media’s focus on the unfortunate and relatively few street and subway encounters that has made New Yorkers feel unsafe. Feeling empowered to authorize sweeps of homeless encampments, Adams has deputized teams of clinicians and police officers to provide “outreach” to unkempt and disturbed looking people in the subways. Ostensibly, this is to offer services. The outreach’s actual intent, to move the emotionally disturbed somewhere out of sight, brings to mind a supposedly bygone practice, putting the unwelcome into carts and riding them out of town, the euphemism for which is “passing on.”

Especially when it’s involuntary, the process of being admitted to a hospital and remaining in a psych unit is traumatic. Already unstable patients must endure long waits in a chaotic emergency room environment. Upon admission, they must relinquish their clothes, phones, and other belongings. If disturbed by their sequestration, they are subdued with sedatives and/or physical restraints.

New York City has experienced a decrease in its number of psychiatric hospital beds over the years. Some 425 of the beds removed to make room for COVID-19 patients remain unavailable. A public health hospital in Harlem attributes increasing levels of patient violence to insufficient support staff. Mental health care staffing, patient capacity and quality of care are in desperate need of an upgrade.

The short and long-term goals are reasonable: stabilize people and then connect them with mental health care and support to meet such basic needs as housing. Since community programs have waiting lists, this is not always possible. As of November 2022, special outreach teams, known as assertive community treatment teams, had an 800-person waiting list. The Jewish Board, a nonprofit that operates outpatient mental health clinics across the city, reports that there is currently a 1,500-person waitlist for a therapist.

A recourse hiding in plain sight

Though funding additional social workers, therapists and housing for the oppressed will help, throwing money in the general direction of conventional psychiatry will only worsen matters, as it has always done in the past. Mayor Adams, Dr. Torrey and others are convinced that something other than this losing proposition does not exist. They are mistaken.

Whether in acute or long-term settings a viable recourse for the mentally ill is there for the taking. Relied upon by at least 300 million people the world over and a mainstay of care throughout Europe, South America, and all of India, the solution is hiding in plain sight. Despite relentless and baseless denigration by the pharmaceutical industry, powerful, safe, and cost-effective homeopathic treatment remains the answer.

A colleague in England, Francis Treuherz, maintains a growing library of over ten thousand homeopathy volumes. It’s doubtful they would have been written if homeopaths had nothing important to say. For example, some texts that a homeopathic practitioner working in a psychiatric emergency room might refer to include the following:

  • Homeopathic Psychiatry – Understanding The Use And Meaning Of The Delusion Rubrics In Case Analysis by Liz Lalor
  • Homeopathic Medicine for Mental Health by Trevor Smith
  • Psychiatry Remedies Paperback –1890, by Jean-Pierre Gallavardin

Regarding inpatient care, for at least half a century, compassionate, safe, and effective homeopathic psychiatric hospitals proliferated in America. The care was provided in utopian, often self-sustaining and popular settings, asylums of the post-Civil War and early nineteenth century eras. Our collective ignorance of their history of success stems from the psycho-pharmaceutical industry’s fear of disruption of its economic hegemony. To protect the bottom line, it has endeavored to and succeeded in eradicating almost all mention of it. It has filled the resulting vacuum with a fictitious narrative. The true story can be found in my book, Sane Asylums, The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind.

For more about the psycho-pharmaceutical industry’s shenanigans see:

Tune into Jerry’s Magickal Solutions interview on his book, Sane Asylums, with host Leilani at 7:00pm on January 15, 2023.

Psycho-Pharm Humbug Lures P.T. Barnum Back From The Dead. What exactly is humbug?

Psycho-Pharm Humbug Lures P.T. Barnum Back From The Dead. What exactly is humbug?

by | Jan 9, 2023 | Homeopathy, Hot Topics | 0 comments

Ebenezer Scrooge is notorious for snorting “Bah! Humbug!” whenever the topic of Christmas crops up in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. Since no one wants to be thought of as an insufferable tightwad both the name Scrooge and his favorite word, “humbug” float side by side in the toilet. From a different vantage point, one hundred years later, when December’s (and now also November’s) annual bacchanal of mindless spending masquerades behind the spiritual meaning of our most famous holiday Scrooge is a prophet. Christmas is a humbug indeed.

Humbug pays tribute to a high ground value so as to mask the attraction of a lower ground need. It’s dishonest in a “wink-wink, “yeah, we’re all in on it” way. Yet humbug’s universality sets it apart from the ploy of a hoax that creates chaos and serves the narrow interest of a few. Nor is it the same as outright lying. In plain English, humbug is a polite term for bullshit. Ebenezer Scrooge owned a well-oiled bullshit detector.

 

 

 

In addition to Christmas, examples of humbug include:

  • “Thank you so much! Receiving this Most Valuable Player award is deeply humbling.” The recipient of outsized recognition is aware that excessive adulation for any one individual diminishes all others. Then, so as to preempt resentment they assert that the award diminishes not you but them. Welcome to humble brag.
  • A show or film decrying immoral behavior can make its case with images that goose us into having immoral urges! In a prior era, P.T. Barnum offered the public burlesque shows that he cleverly advertised as moral lectures.
  • Abraham Flexner’s 1910 report on medical education in the US hawked “genuinely scientific,” meaning psycho-pharm medicine from Germany to an American public eager to associate itself with sophisticated, European knowledge. Flexner pretended that a wildly popular and not at all unscientific trend toward naturopathic medicine created by an ingenious German homeopath named Emmanuel Felke did not exist. The humbug benefitted his magnate sponsors, masterminds John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
  • Psycho-pharmaceutical medicine as I hope to show is another example of humbug.

P.T. Barnum’s Visitation
Phones Taylor Barnum

“Good sir!” the fellow bellowed, “Attend to me at once! It has been long, much too long….!”

How to account for this dream? Perhaps the tryptophane loaded, cheddar cheese sandwich that I scarfed up before bed the other night. There he stood, all six foot two inches of him, bulbous nosed with piercing blue eyes, curly brown locks framing a semi-bald head. Sporting his fabled potbelly. It was Phineas Taylor Barnum himself. “Well hello PT,’ I replied. “To what do I owe the honor?”

“The immanent spirits wearied of me.” he sighed, “If you can imagine! I was dismissed from the Bardo, exiled to the outskirts of Heaven. There I rebuilt my three-story Oriental mansion Iranistan. Amidst the sanctimonious ones it was I who grew bored. It is now a hundred and thirty years have passed since my death. An overlong expanse would you agree? So now I ponder a return.”

“And how is that?” I asked.

“Good sir!” the fellow bellowed, “Attend to me at once! It has been long, much too long….!”

How to account for this dream? Perhaps the tryptophane loaded, cheddar cheese sandwich that I scarfed up before bed the other night. There he stood, all six foot two inches of him, bulbous nosed with piercing blue eyes, curly brown locks framing a semi-bald head. Sporting his fabled potbelly. It was Phineas Taylor Barnum himself. “Well hello PT,’ I replied. “To what do I owe the honor?”

“The imminent spirits wearied of me.” he sighed, “If you can imagine! I was dismissed from the Bardo, exiled to the outskirts of Heaven. There I rebuilt my three-story Oriental mansion Iranistan. Amidst the sanctimonious ones it was I who grew bored. It is now a hundred and thirty years have passed since my death. An overlong expanse would you agree? So now I ponder a return.”

“And how is that?” I asked.

I am not easily beguiled,“ said Barnum, “nor bereft of notion. Clearly, they’ve discovered a new General Tom Thumb.”

“None such found, Barnum.”

“Captured a pachyderm larger than my elephant, Jumbo?”

“Has not occurred PT.”

“Well then, showcased a singer better than my Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale?’

“Try again.”

“Displayed a giant more immense than my Commander Nutt?”

“I give you one last chance.”

“Drat! It has to be they vouchsafed a monkey man hairier than my William Henry Johnson!”

“You float lead balloons Mr. Barnum.”

“Who are these paragons?” shrieked Barnum, growing red in the face. Where be their circuses? Explain their humbug to me!”

“They comprise a posse PT, of which I give you five ringmasters: David Ricks, Pascal Saviot, Emma Walmsley, Albert Bourla and Joaquin Duato. Their circuses are wondrous strange with unfathomable names: Eli Lily, AstraZeneca, Glaxosmithkline, Pfizer; an occasional extravaganza slung with an uncannily humdrum moniker such as Johnson and Johnson.

“Allow me to abbreviate their humbug. For millennia mankind struggled with the stresses of poverty, loss, betrayal, exhaustion and spiritual distress. Then, after your death something remarkable occurred. Together with the arrival of what we call a pharmaceutical industry existential problems came to be monetized. Medicines such as homeopathics and herbs attuned to the human design were supplanted because they were not patentable. In order to buttress their psycho-pharmaceutical nostrums the ringmasters performed a magic trick. Bogus psychiatric conditions were conjured.

Their supposed curability with the industry’s dubious but patentable chemicals was proclaimed. The erratically acting pharmaceuticals engendered ever more dire medical conditions that burdened the afflicted with shame. To alleviate the stigma a dogma was propagated that the mentally ill require medicating with ever more of the ‘new and improved’ concoctions. Dependence on the drugs became a self-fulfilling prophesy. Ringmasters skilled at sustaining the rigamarole are handsomely rewarded.”

“Indeed a most marvelous humbug,” Barnum declared, “Regale me about these chemicals. How are these new medical conditions known?”

“An example is the first and later “generation” of neuroleptic medicines, also called anti-psychotics. If I tell you their names your head will explode. As for the conditions they are many. We have psychosis, schizophrenia, dysthymia, bi-polar one, bi-polar two, bi-polar three, bi-polar four and bi-polar five, cyclothymic disorder. The new conditions are tallied up in a well-regarded volume, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is now into its fifth edition and counting.”

“An opportunity beckons,” he exulted. “I shall mount exhibits,” he continued: “Half-reptile, half-lunatic, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Neuroleptoserus! And here in the next booth, halfways joyous, halfways melancholiac, ‘The Bifurcate, Bi-polar Man.’ Beside him–if I have this right—The Unfortunate Dysthymia, a woman who cares for absolutely nothing!”

“One rejoices to hear that death has not dimmed your imagination PT. However, showmanship such as yours no longer flies. The afflicted are too many. I fear they better qualify as ‘exhibits’ themselves, than customers.”

Absorbing this news Barnum’s face fell and his presence within my dream receded.

The next night brought forth another and darker dream. A melancholic P.T. Barnum gives himself over to modern-day psychiatry. Having been prescribed the anti-psychotic, haloperidol Barnum reacts with agitation and uncontrollable restlessness. This prompts a return to the psychiatry office.

“Look here Ed, Barnum’s boomeranged,“ his doctor, Sid says. “Must be akathisia. Better switch to a second-generation neuroleptic. Maybe we should have used that in the first place.”

“I know what you mean,” his colleague Ed replies. “They all balance the neurotransmitters, so I’m told. Be a good fellow and rummage through the drug barrel. Hope we’re not yet clean out of asenapine, clozapine, iloperidone, lumateperone, lurasidone, olanzapine, paliperidone, quetiapine, risperidone and ziprasidone. Wait! That hot little rep who dropped by the other day, which one was it she recommended? Oh, and by the way Barnum, I surmise that your insurance has elapsed so this will be coming out of your pocket.”

Given risperidone, Barnum is advised everything will be fine and that he can retreat to the peace and quiet of his sepulcher. Like a dutiful zombie, Barnum trudges back to his grave only to find himself spinning uncontrollably within it. Back to the psychiatric office he schleps.

“Aw crap, I thought this might happen!” Ed says, “Rotten luck. You’ve got Tardive Dyskinesia Barnum, too much damn dopamine signaling in the brain! Bad idea to take you off the ‘ole risperidone though. A little TD never killed anyone. Try not to get all worked up. We’ll just lower the dose. Go on back to your crypt and chill out Mr. Barnum.”

Barnum complies and the rolling over in his grave abates. But now mysteriously, he has contracted Tourette’s Syndrome for I hear him repeatedly, sputtering “Humbug! Humbug! Did didd didd didd…ddastardly…hhumbug!” I woke up before finding out if he ever makes it back to the psychiatric office.

By way of comic relief…

Forgetting poor P.T. Barnum for the moment, here is an entry from the Compendium of Madness Perspectives, extracted from the Appendix of Sane Asylums, the Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sane-Asylums/Jerry-M-Kantor/9781644114087

Meshugeneh Antecedent to this Yiddish term is shigaon from Deuteronomy, meaning crazy. It expresses the common biblical theme of retribution due to deviating from the word of God. Later in that section, God says that the Jewish people will become m’shuga after a foreign people steals their crops and abuses them. Talmudic rabbis saw madness as a legal issue. They held that someone who is mentally incompetent — a category known as a shoteh, derived from the Hebrew word for wanderer or vagrant is exempt from most religious obligations. He or she can neither marry nor bear witness. Maimonides described the shoteh is someone who runs around naked or throws rocks.

Some Talmudic sources equate madness with sinfulness. The sage Reish Lakish for example, says that a person only sins when the spirit of shtut — madness or folly — descends. The Talmud describes a shtut as someone who goes out alone at night or sleeps in a cemetery But Oy! So as to obtain learned counsel a devout Chassid may prostrate himself on the grave of a deceased sage. If while doing so he falls asleep is he messhugeh? (See also the Meshugass section in Chaim Yankel’s Heymischer Homeopathy, The Schmendrick’s Guide to Remedying Yiddish Yiddish Kvetches) 

Meshugeneh
Behold! In my dream, tomorrow the Messiah did not come

 

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When History Has Been HijackedThe Narrative Must Be Seized or Else Choice Is Forfeited

When History Has Been Hijacked
The Narrative Must Be Seized or Else Choice Is Forfeited

by | Jan 9, 2023 | Homeopathy, Hot Topics | 0 comments

Particularly in the arena of mental health, distortion of history results in loss of choice.

Some of you may already have heard about my new book, Sane Asylums, The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind. Thanks for spreading the word!

Simon & Schuster
Also available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Bam!., Bookshop, Indie Bound, and Homeopathic Educational Services

It’s been gratifying to hear of so many stories about homeopathy’s helping when conventional medicine has failed or caused harm. Still, as a mental health care option, a megaphone loud enough to lead Americans to homeopathy has not yet been found. We also lament the ready accessibility of assault weapons while failing to block their sale. Both problems cry out for new thinking.

Some guilt-ridden psychiatrists purport to distance themselves from the baloney science the PR arm of their own psychopharm industry blurts. Sadly, unfounded media claims about a “broken” brain or chemical imbalance are too often heard to be questioned. Unable to wean themselves from their accustomed profits the same doctors cannot constrain themselves from toxic neuroleptic and benzodiazepine prescribing. That this is disastrous for the public has not gone unnoticed as the popularity of Robert Whitaker’s books Mad in America and Anatomy of an Epidemic attest.

While it amazes me how little pushback I have gotten on Sane Asylums’ subtitle that psychiatry has lost its mind (none actually) a mystery remains why so few of us in the end opt for homeopathy rather than psychopharm for anxiety, depression, mood or eating disorders.

The philosopher John Locke has said: “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any reason but because they are not already common.” Though good sense shouts that homeopathy is the mental health care antidote to toxic psychopharmacology the notion as yet appears too “new.” After all this time, how come? The reason is that in the wake of homeopathic history’s hijacking, freedom of health care choice has eroded.

Sane Asylums was originally pitched to Springer, an overseas publishing house with a long history of bringing forth homeopathic medical and historical texts. In the wake of a European kibosh on homeopathy something changed. A trumped up reason was found to reject the proposal: With a straight face Springer let me know that homeopathic asylums and their neighboring, non-homeopathic mental hospitals offered perfectly equivalent moral care. The differences were not worth mentioning.

If you lived in upstate New York in the 1880s and had a nervous breakdown, your family might have had to choose between sending you to Selden Talcott’s Middletown Asylum for the Insane in Middletown, NY or the Utica mental illness hospital, “Old Main,” run by Amariah Brigham and 120 miles north of Middletown. Both facilities offered rest, nursing and cultural activities. The benefits included homeopathy and spectatorship of a superb baseball the team, the Asylums at Middletown; and at Utica, the opportunity to contribute to the asylum’s newsletter.

A renowned “sane” asylum in Easton, PA., Dr. James Pursell’s sanitarium,
a remodeled 44 room mansion originally built in 1812

An appreciable difference was that if you were prone to violent outbursts, so as to protect yourself and fellow patients at Middletown,  the last resort–mode of restraint–would have been in a camisole (straight jacket). But at Utica, Amariah Brigham would have penned you up in his infamous “Utica Crib,” a torture device Edgar Allen Poe can have imagined. With a thick mattress on the bottom, slats on the sides, and a hinged top that could be locked from the outside, the crib was eighteen inches deep, eight feet long, and three feet wide. Used to restrain and break the spirit of patients, the notorious crib I suspect is the backstory for the expression to “become unhinged,” referring to the wild behaviors of patients once the crib’s cover was lifted. Knowing the facts which asylum would you pick?

Forty-three miles away from Middletown stood an equally large, non-homeopathic moral care mental health asylum, the Hudson River State Hospital. It was built in 1873, one year before Middletown. In contrast to Middletown Hospital where Selden Talcott’s facility was not only homeopathic but entirely self-sufficient, Hudson River State Hospital was a money pit excoriated by the New York Times for having through mismanagement or embezzlement lost $1.2 million dollars of tax payers’ monies.

In another example, let us consider Mary Todd Lincoln’s insanity and treatment at Richard Patterson’s “sane” asylum. Existing history offers two equally preposterous accounts. The first is that following a sensational trial, Mary, who the court deemed incurably insane, was never really ill in the first place. This is belied by accounts such as the following (documented in Sane Asylums):

One of Mary’s doctors, Willis Danforth, was the star witness. He reported that Mary had told him that an evil Indian spirit was pulling wires out of her left eye, that she was distracted by premonitions of her own death and that she was prone to vomiting up her meals to foil imaginary poisoners. The manager of the Chicago hotel she lived in explained how Mary had shown up in the elevator half-naked, and sent all her belongings to Milwaukee one day believing the city was being consumed by a raging fire.

The second narrative says that while clearly out of her mind, all Mary Todd Lincoln needed in order to recover was a spot of rest and the advice of savvy lawyers. Up until my 150 year-late investigation homeopathy’s role in bringing Mary Todd Lincoln to sanity has gone untold. My conjecture is that had Mary’s successful treatment been lauded and recounted in school books, setbacks sustained by homeopathic medical schools in the wake of the 1910 Flexner report could have been forestalled.

The great utopian asylums were undone by their own success that led to overcrowding, underfunding and inferior staffing. In the bigger picture homeopathy’s demise occurred insidiously, driven by immense pressure exerted by the impetus of biomedical capital driven forces that caught up society and seduced homeopaths as well. As recounted in Sane Asylums homeopathy’s marginalization is attributed to economic pressures rather than to biomedical advances.

Entrenched within academia is a narrative that the true story inconveniently contradicts. For this we can thank Johns Hopkins Medical School whose publications persistently portray homeopathy as passe due to its having been a sect and a medical heresy. Johns Hopkins’ fictitious account contaminates medical school departments of history and university history departments throughout the country.

Having surveyed the faculties of dozens of university history departments it is hard to miss a curricular concentration top heavy on gender, colonialism, racism and Black History. The ubiquity of these topics is in many ways commendable, but there is a dark side: Other worthwhile fields whose exploration could likewise expand informed choice and enhance well-being are neglected. Academics, historians, translational medicine proponents and social science professors attending to homeopathic history have gone missing.

Confronted with a narrative invented by the pharmaceutical industry it is no wonder the public is easily deceived and devoid of informed health care choice. Researching the buried history of our amazing homeopathic asylums, a task that Sane Asylums likens to excavating the Dead Sea Scrolls should belong to professional historians not a lone homeopath. Seizing our narrative will elevate homeopathy’s mental health care profile.

In preparation for and after the recent release of Sane Asylums, Jerry did numerous podcasts. Two of them are below:

  • Click Here to listen to Richard Syrett’s Strange Planet on Spotify
  • Click Here to listen to Les Jensen’s BlogTalk 

Sane Asylums can be purchased at the following links below:

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