Robert Freudenthal
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Psychiatrist in eating disorders. Hopeful dog guardian.
London
Joined June 2009
a piece I wrote that outlines how hyper-medicalisation can function to transform us as individuals into objects, which can then be exploited by systems of surveillance capitalism for significant profit.
A surveillance society is based on us all having our primary relationship with the power structure that is practicing the surveillance – such as the government, or the big tech companies, but not with each other.
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Absolutely agree. Mental illness is part of the human condition. It's hard for us to accept but it's true. There never will be "one approach" that solves mental illness. Sometimes (most of the time) noone is to blame.
The idea that ALL mental illnesses could be prevented by avoiding trauma, poverty and unhealthy habits is an omnipotent fantasy that everything can be controlled.
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Helpful article, the arguments could be applied to most "zero" campaigns.--.The zero suicide approach: style over substance | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core -
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RT @toby00green: "Lockdowns are not suitable for every country. In the pandemic, richer nations pressured low- and middle-income countries….
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Some truths that need to be applied to assisted dying:.---.State power is not experienced by everyone the same. Doctors and judges do not know the inner workings of an individual's mind. Power tends to expand when given the opportunity.
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"very small number of people". In Holland, >5% of all deaths are from assisted dying, and the number increases every year.
See all the famously robust Elon lads are annoyed by this. What is being proposed is not a “state suicide service”. It is for a very small number of people with judicial and medical safeguards. It does not provide for suicide on demand. Its opponents have good arguments. They.
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RT @dockaurG: Meet @DrJBhattacharya just nominated by Trump as the new NIH Director. “Lockdowns were an enormous & catastrophic mistake. W….
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Oh dear, if "there will be psychiatrists involved" is considered an adequate safeguard then help us all.
“How would anyone know if someone had been coerced [into assisted dying]?”. @vicderbyshire presses Christine Jardine, Lib Dem MP for Edinburgh West and supporter of the latest assisted dying bill, about the safeguards for the proposed new law. #Newsnight
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RT @drphilhammond: In today’s @PrivateEyeNews, I ask why lead prosecution expert Dr Dewi Evans has not even been contacted by @Thirlwall_In….
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*for me, this contributes to the dehumanisation of Gazans and others caught up in this conflict, and shallowness of supposed soliday expressed in the West:. usual principles are discarded in favour of Gazans being treated like objects in the ideological warfare of others.
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V helpful article exploring the question of why (unlike those fleeing other wars to seek safety) there is no campaign to grant Gazan refugees asylum, for those that seek it*.
@nadiaaakd In this article, I try to explain why states & the UN have denied Palestinians in Gaza the supposedly universal right to seek asylum from danger:.
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This CS Lewis quote applies here:
I will stand four square with Kim, as will millions of people who are on the side of compassion and humanity. The law must change in the name of love.
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RT @BBC_CurrAff: Lucy Letby: The Killer Questions. File on 4 examines some of the most contentious statistical, scientific and medical evid….
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This is weak leadership . PM is the elected leader of the country, and should have an internal moral core that on an issue like this, should be articulated and brought under democratic process for scrutiny . Citing a promise to a celebrity campaigner isn't it.
"I made a promise to Esther Rantzen before the election that we would provide time for a debate and a vote on assisted dying," Keir Starmer says. "I'm very pleased" that I'm able to "make good" on that promise, the prime minister adds.
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RT @BBCRadio4: Medical experts and scientists have told #Fileon4 they have new concerns about how some of the evidence used in the trial of….
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RT @AaronKheriatyMD: "Medicine is now in danger of causing more sickness than it heals." My latest. via @brownsto….
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RT @david_conn: Consultant neonatologist who advised Lucy Letby defence team criticises inquiry judge Thirlwall’s dismissal of questions ab….
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RT @drphilhammond: In today’s @PrivateEyeNews I do my fourth long piece on Letby before I move back to other NHS issues. The third alleged….
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My goodness. Understandable if many in nursing profession following the Letby case feel "there but for the grace of God go I".
‘I am evil I did this’: Lucy Letby’s so-called confessions were written on advice of counsellors
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RT @AyoCaesar: I'm not going to sit here and pretend to be an expert in complex criminal cases. But I think that if it had been me sitting….
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