Rob: I think you're right. And I really love what you have to
say, so I needed to put this stuff out there because, you know I went through
that. I worked at a mental -
BB: Understand.
Rob: - health inpatient unit from 1973 to 1975 and I watched
electroshock being done. But what you talk about, it reminds me, I was at a
presentation at the psychologists for social responsibility a number of years
ago. And they talk about the difference between cultures that use drugs
and cultures that use community. And I think this is really the bottom line of
what you're talking about.
BB: Absolutely bottom line. And it's cultures that use control
and cultures that use cooperation. I mean we really have to decide what kind of
culture we want to be and the culture that we have become to me is so
wrong-headed and so destructive.
Rob: So when you're talking about this idea, this is not some
crazy idea that nobody's ever done. This is the way it's done in other
cultures, right?
BB: Well, it's done less and less in other cultures because
psychiatry is colonizing those other cultures bit by bit by bit. And through
things like the World Bank, you have, you're in desperate need of money, we
will only give you money if you take up the mental health template of the west.
So you know those cultures are rapidly disappearing. Which is really scary.
Rob: And what about indigenous cultures.
BB: Same thing. Psychiatry colonizes--
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)