Good news: your contributions have allowed us to continue our legal efforts and we have succeeded in getting the proclamation date postponed. Thank you! What will happen to the millions of Ontarians who rely on traditional, holistic and genuine spiritual care treatments to stay well, recover from brain-damaging drug therapy or when endless talk therapy fails to help, now that psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists are poised to takeover all treatment and counseling in Ontario? It’s simple; everyone will be forcefully recycled into the very system they are increasingly trying to avoid. This health care terrorism will surely cause ‘health care abuse disorder’. Regulation by the lobby groups controlling our government will remove every Ontarians’ basic freedoms of speech, association and expression in one of the most important areas of our lives. The inherent safety in our choosing our own health care treatments will be eliminated. Psychologists are even lobbying to have ‘daydreaming’ included as a mental illness diagnosis and have designated Zen meditation a psychotherapeutic technique to come entirely under their control, so we can all imagine the degree of terror awaiting us. As you read on to learn of the danger we are all facing and become acquainted with some breath-taking statistics, please keep in mind that we need your generous contributions to stop this assault on our health, rights and our very lives NOW! Proclamation could happen as early March 2015. Remember that for your contributions to reach us you must contribute at www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca where you will find statistics and further information. Recently an SPT team member wrote to the Transitional Council of the new College of Registered Psychotherapists who are taking over the entire field of treatment and counseling in Ontario, including spiritual care. She asked the Registrar to define and explain the various terms in the legislation and why it should be acceptable for a lobby group of psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists to be telling others who they should see about their issues in life. Our Team Member didn’t get a truthful and transparent answer, but she was ‘accused’ of being a Stop Psychotherapy Team member as though standing up for our constitutional rights to free choice in health care was a ‘crime’. How dare we stand up for our rights and freedoms! Instead, our Team Member got the same old circular and confusing runaround as always: “Any person can provide services that fall within the scope of practice of psychotherapy, so long as they do not… perform the controlled act of psychotherapy. Your statement that the Transitional Council will not be defining .. the controlled act of psychotherapy is correct.”. In other words, we can practice, but really we can’t! At the same time, the College that claims to be open, transparent and there to protect the public-- as though we are too dim-witted to look after our own health and make our own choices-- continued to withhold the following facts: - while the College claims it is not authorized to define terms used in the legislation, they are by law permitted (and expected), once they are proclaimed into power, to use their profession’s reference manuals and material to make future regulations and to prosecute traditional and holistic health care professionals …and to do so without any public consultation whatever; - their ‘profession’ relies on two main reference materials that are essentially works of fiction and have no scientific basis whatever. They are recognized by ethical doctors and researchers, such as Dr. Peter Breggin (Medication Madness), to be self-serving opinions that are repeatedly and misleadingly marketed as ‘scientific’ and ‘reliable’. Those two reference materials are (a) the American Psychological Association’s Dictionary of Psychology, 1st edition released in 2006 at the same time as this takeover was pushed into overdrive and (2) the DSM (the diagnostic manual that lists just about every human activity, feeling and behavior as a mental illness, including shyness, difficulty learning math and soon…wait for it!.....daydreaming); - while the College insists it will not ‘define’ what it means by ‘psychotherapeutic techniques’, which is a term they used to make the treatment of human disturbances a ‘controlled act’, these techniques are in fact described in their new Dictionary…yes the one they seem to be keeping under wraps; - the use of these ‘psychotherapeutic techniques’ that now are deemed to include spiritual care, holistic education, electroshock, drug therapy, coping skills training, exercise therapy, Zen Buddhism, and motivation therapy as well as hundreds of others, will be restricted to psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and occupational therapists; - spiritual care will be provided by registered psychotherapists disguised as spiritual care practitioners, without disclosure to their clients that they are in fact psychotherapists and are likely assigning the client a mental illness diagnosis; - prior to 2006, the list of ‘psychotherapeutic techniques’ was basically understood to be techniques used by psychologists and psychiatrists -- electroshock, lobotomy, drug therapy and diagnoses. In 2006 this list included some 300+ approaches that are mostly those used by traditional, holistic and spiritual care professionals. Talk about a ‘just in time’ appropriation of the approaches they needed to complete the takeover of treatments they previously had only a minimal interest in, if not outright contempt for. Psychotherapy (aka psychiatry and psychology) is ONE approach. It does not mean that all approaches are psychotherapy just because they are added to a ‘list’ by psychologists! But this lobby group knows that if they repeat the fable that all approaches are ‘an act of psychotherapy’ over and over enough times then, as Hitler once said, people just start to accept it as fact. Let’s face it, the primary and 1st medicine…around since the beginning of man-kind… is natural, free of demeaning labels, involves pure food and clean water and is time-tested. The new kids on the block arrived about 125 years ago and since then have worked hard to brain-wash the public into thinking they are the primary medicine and the rest of us are just a ‘fad’. Worse, they insist that illness creation is ‘medicine’. - the deals and backroom ‘agreements’ the Transitional Council has set up with some holistic groups to keep them from becoming alarmed are NOT BINDING on the College once it becomes proclaimed. In fact the College Board of Directors will be brand new faces. - this whole takeover is a mechanism of social control and dissolution of basic freedoms and is designed to monopolize the entire field of treatment and counseling in the hands of psychologists and psychiatrists (by way of making psychotherapy a ‘profession’). This takeover is highly influenced by the pharmaceutical drug industry which is none too happy that some $10 - $14 BILLION are spent annually in Canada on non-drug therapies. All this is EXTREMELY dangerous and is brought to you by the very same professions that have been associated with the most horrific of atrocities, such as: - the false memory, satanic cult and multiple personality scams of the 1990s causing high numbers of suicides and family breakups by implanting untruths in their patient’s minds (source: Sybil Exposed); - the tortures and ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were designed by psychologists (source: various media reports Dec 2014); - the many documented mass experiments on orphans and foster-care children that left many dead and most mentally crippled for life; - increasing encroachments on citizens’ right to fair trials in the courts because the opinions of psychologists and psychiatrists are heavily relied upon by Judges and parole boards, despite only being ‘opinions’ without scientific backing; - assigning diagnoses -- life-long labels that negatively affect a person’s career and potential in life in ways previously unrecognized and now encompassing virtually every normal human reaction and behavior known in one way or another…and soon to include day-dreaming; - burgeoning numbers of involuntary incarcerations, removal of children from their parents, abuse of school children with labels of the fraudulent diagnosis ADHD and the arbitrary diagnosis of school children by teachers, nurses, family and friends; - If the patient disagrees with treatment and/or finds it harmful, the patient is slapped with a diagnosis such as oppositional defiance disorder and/or is accused of being non-compliant with treatment. One way or another, the patient is ALWAYS wrong; - Psychologists are pushing ‘daydreaming’ as a mental illness, to be included with the diagnosis of ADHD. Anyone who has seen the horrific damage to children stigmatized with this made-up diagnosis and the resultant brain-damaging treatment with psychiatric drugs, is frightened for our future generations. The new daydreaming diagnosis will be called Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and will be used to broaden the definition of the alleged ADHD, increasing pharmaceutical profits at the cost of the normal daydreamers who bring to the world extraordinary creativity and scientific breakthroughs….Alexander Graham Bell, George Lucas, Steve Jobs for starters. Daydreaming is essential to life and liberty and to being able to survive oppression and poverty. Traditional and holistic practitioners celebrate a human’s ability to manifest their own desires by assisting in finding and resolving the root causes (dietary, neglect, abuse, chemical toxicity, emotional hurt, etc). (Source: Kelly Patricia O’Meara, Dec 15/14 Disease-Mongering: Day-dreams may soon be labeled mentally ill http://www.cchrint.org/2014/12/15/disease-mongering-daydreamers-may-soon-be-labeled-mentally-ill ) Mental illness diagnoses are complete invasions of the privacy and dignity of humans arbitrarily subjected to them. They are tantamount to indignities to the living body and wounding of the soul. There must continue to be an option to this approach to treatment for those who want it. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO BUSINESS TELLING US WHAT WE MUST THINK, BELIEVE, READ, EAT OR WHAT MEDICINES and TREATMENTS WE AND OUR CHILDREN MUST TAKE… if you believe in this freedom, please contribute now before it is too late for Ontarians. Unless we take action now, we are looking at a future where we will be diagnosed as ‘mentally ill’ just for ‘daydreaming’ about what it was like when we were free of those with an insatiable lust for power and control and a superiority complex beyond the imagination of most. Let us look at the breathtaking statistics that can help us imagine just how horrific life will be in Ontario once the only options Ontarians have for treatment are those prescribed by psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrics: (a) Physicians are more than twice as likely as the general population to commit suicide and psychiatrists commit suicide at twice the rate of general physicians. (b) 1 in 4 psychologists consider suicide at least once and 1 in 16 have attempted at least one time to kill themselves. (c) Of the physicians who committed suicide, 42% had been seeing a conventional mental health professional at the time of death, highlighting the fact that removing safe, effective, dignified, empathic holistic therapies from the pallet of health care choices for the troubled client is seriously unwise and unjust. (d) The rates of addictions, depression, divorce and substance abuse are higher for conventional health care professions then the general population. (Sources: (a) Medscape: Physicians are not Invincible: Rates of Psychosocial Problems Among Physicians: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410643_2 and (b) Psychology Today: Why Shrinks Have Problems http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200909/why-shrinks-have-problems (e) Prescription drugs used as prescribed are the fourth leading cause of death in Canada, with 70% totally preventable – ten thousand deaths/year and 100,000 serious injuries…and that is thought to be extremely conservative as reporting is not mandatory. (Source: Harper Government Launches Plain Language Labeling Initiative to Improve Drug Safety for Canadians, June 2013 Press Release, Minister of Health) (f) There are, at last count, 331 psychological theories…not one has been proven to cure anything. There is no known case of any mental illness patient having been ‘cured’ by conventional therapies and theoretical approaches. Many high quality independent studies show that most issues worsen with conventional mental health treatments. (g) There are at last count, well over 300 mental illness diagnosis in over 200 categories…not one has scientific support or been proven helpful to recovery. Soon that list will include ‘daydreaming’. (h) Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show fewer than 6% of referrals made under the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in 2012-13 resulted in ‘reliable recovery’” (Source: The sorry state of NHS provision of psychological therapy. Paul Atkinson, March 2014 Free Psychotherapy Network http://freepsychotherapynetwork.com/2014/03/09/the-sorry-story-of-state-provision-of-psychological-therapy/ ) (i) Depending on which study you read, between 20 and 57 percent of psychotherapy clients do not return after their initial session. Another 37 to 45 percent only attend therapy a total of two times. (Source: How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely by Bernard Schwartz, PhD and John Flowers, PhD http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/therapy-failure) On the other hand, there is no history of harm done by traditional and holistic treatments. (Source: Health Care Policy Studies, Sept 2009 ‘Unnatural Regulation: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy in Canada’ by Cynthia Ramsay, Fraser Institute). The World Health Organization estimates that between 65 to 80 percent of the world’s population (over 4 billion people) rely on traditional medicine as their primary form of health care compared to only 10 to 30 percent of people who use conventional medicine. Yet in Ontario, we are all being forced to accept the treatments many people seem not to want. The PEOPLE SPEAK AND MUST CONTINUE TO SPEAK without interference and constant threats of takeovers by those and their drug-company masters who lust for control over a whole population. We don’t need to be rocket scientists to see that the interference by medical-model therapists and drug companies into our health care choices can and will put us all at high risk of disability, death and at the very least, will brand every normal human being with a label of ‘mental illness’ for life just for the crime of being normal and having normal reactions to life’s bumps and bruises. We need protection from takeover artists who use tall tales, works of literary fiction and who surround themselves with the trappings of legitimacy to take control of our lives. We need protection from government bureaucrats who work to dissolve our freedoms instead of protect them. We can obtain this protection from takeovers, but we need your immediate assistance to do so. Please contribute to the effort to preserve the freedoms our parents and grandparents died for at www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca and share the word far and wide. Keep well in 2015!