The 18th and 19th centuries brought with them more than just the technical allure of an industrial revolution. Man himself became restless for a spiritual as well as physical change in the way he regarded himself and his place in the cosmos. New ‘sciences’ emerged, such as evolution, psychology, psychiatry and the mental health and hygiene movements. Their impacts on our future society were to have far-reaching consequences in the decades following their acceptance by the public at large.
At first glance, most would not even acknowledge the incredible damage psychiatry has wrought on our world, permeating our courts, police, hospitals, movies and TV, our schoolyards, governments, even our homes. In fact you may conclude mankind itself must be going insane when we are told repeatedly that at no other time in history has society been so ‘mentally ill’. Our nations’ governments, schools and courts appreciate this, which is why they are veritably a-swarm with armies of legislators, administrators and battalions of psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health experts to cope with the burgeoning workload. One could expect, with such an impressive arsenal of professional expertise on call, that victory itself was assured. Who would consider in their right mind these forces might be the very same armies responsible for all the chaos?
In The Mind Game, I examine the real causes of mental illness and show abundant evidence that in most cases, diet, toxins and social and lifestyle pressures are to blame. The new science of ‘orthomolecular psychiatry’, in my view, is the way forward – the science of treating such conditions with the correct (‘ortho’) molecules. In other words, examining the patient medically first to establish the existence of any physical ailments, then bringing the full arsenal of nutritional medicine and counselling to bear where applicable.