James DeMeo's OBRL-News Blog

From: Dr Norman Mactas Ackerman      

New York City

Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He was chair of the task force of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) which was released in 1980. He has been referred to as a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders which involves classifying mental disorders in discrete categories, with specified diagnostic criteria.

Re  Robert Spitzer and the Reich research material -  Spitzer was [as indicated in the Wikipedia article above] head of the very prestigious American Psy. Assoc. commission that redefined the practice of psychiatry in 1980 when the rather convoluted  DSM-III was promulgated -- I was busy with my own psychiatric clinic practise at the time but when I had looked over the new 'rules of psychiatric engagement' I felt the equivalent of 'there goes the neighborhood' -- DSM III further cast  professional psychiatry into  a mold of theology with mythical forces only countered by certified professionals -- psychiatrists that is -- whose holy wafers more and more became the Big Pharma prescriptions.

Best,

Norman

From: Philip W. Bennett

       Hamden, CT

Please reread the opening of the New Yorker article about Spitzer I sent you a few years ago:  he had been in orgone therapy at one point but then turned on Reich and aided the FDA.

(Following is a letter sent to the New Yorker by Dr. Bennett)

To: New Yorker Magazine

Whatever the merits of Alix Spiegel's article about Robert Spitzer and the DSM ("The Dictionary of Disorder," January 3, 2005), the gratuitous and dismissive references to Wilhelm Reich in the opening paragraph are inaccurate. Reich never 'marketed' the orgone energy accumulator; nor did he ever claim that sitting in it would cure cancer or increase one's sexual potency.  That Spitzer, who, according to his own testimony, benefited from his Reichian therapy, went on to participate in the FDA's witch-hunt of Reich is a tragic irony, one that contributed to the death of one of the twentieth century's most misunderstood thinkers.

Philip W. Bennett, PhD

Fairfield University

Dear Phil,

I had forgotten about the info you previously sent, but found copies in my email files.  Yes, a very good letter you sent to the New Yorker.  Did they ever print it?

Thanks again,

Jim

No, they didn't publish any of the letters they received; Kevin Hinchey (of the WR Museum) wrote a very good one signed by members of the board of the Trust. You can find it at the museum site in one of the updates, I believe.

Best, Philip

Global warming boost to glaciers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/5283278.stm

Researchers studied the western Himalaya

Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims.

Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.

They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.

The findings are significant, because temperature and rain and snow trends in the area impact on water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.

Bogus Negative Results on 50-year-old Orgone Energy "Experiments".

The Failed Efforts and Unprofessional Bias of Robert L. Spitzer

(Is this the best the organized "skeptics" can come up with?)

>Dr. DeMeo,
>
>You probably have already read this:
>
> http://www.srmhp.org/0401/reich.html
>
>No pictures, no data, strange conclusions.
>
>Regards,
>
>Eduardo Hering

Dear Mr. Hering,

Thanks for informing me about this paper by Robert Spitzer "WILHELM
REICH AND ORGONE THERAPY AN EXAMINATION OF WILHELM REICH'S
DEMONSTRATIONS OF ORGONE ENERGY"
http://www.srmhp.org/0401/reich.html

As I read it through, I agree with your negative assessment. It
strikes me as utterly unscientific, lacking in details about
protocols, the environment and weather (which can affect accumulator
functioning), the accumulator constructions and other essential
details needed in any experiment involving orgone energy. Also, no
citations to anyone but Reich, as if all the existing replications
were irrelevant. And we know, the supportive experiments verifying
Reich are abundant, including many doctoral dissertations and theses.
http://www.orgonelab.org/bibliog.htm

One can hardly evaluate the results of Spitzer's experiments and
claims, however, given the complete lack of details about the
experiments, the equipment used to carry them out, and other
essentials. Also, the claimed range of the experiments is stunning
-- observations of orgone energy phenomenon, electroscopical
experiments, bion experiments, To-T experiments, all slapped together
and reported on in a few pages. One could devote months of time and
study to even one of these experiments, and many have devoted years,
producing very good results... Author Spitzer devotes a few
paragraphs to each of several important experimental matters on
orgone research which, by themselves, deserve full papers with pages
of information and documentation. In total, an unscientific
collection of ad-hoc and amateurish uncontrolled "experiments" and
observational claims, fully lacking in sufficient detail for their
evaluations, and with some kind of poison-hatred motivations to
publish it 50+ years after-the-fact. And fully contradicted by much
more professional experimental work by others, over many years.

So who is author Robert Spitzer, and who are these people behind such
a high-sounding organization which would publish such an incomplete
report?

The publication itself is listed as follows:

* The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
* The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
* Objective Investigations of Controversial and Unorthodox Claims in
Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, and Social Work...

The Spitzer paper in fact appears in the Spring-Summer 2005 Volume 4
~ Number 1 issue of this group's publication, which has several items
on Reich:
http://www.srmhp.org/0401/index.html

* The Resurrection of Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Therapy
GERALD D. KLEE

* The Story of Robert L. Spitzer's Paper, 'An Examination of
Demonstrations of Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Energy'
ROBERT L. SPITZER

* An Examination of Demonstrations of Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Energy
ROBERT L. SPITZER

In the second item above, it is revealed that the author Robert
Spitzer did this "research" in 1953 (!) during his spare time when he
was an undergraduate pre-medical student, and then only after having
apparently had some unpleasant personal experiences in an
unidentified form of "Reichian therapy". Spitzer tried to get the
paper published in several medical journals, who rejected it. But he
claims he was approached by the FDA in the 1950s and asked if he
wanted to act as an expert government witness -- a claim which may be
bogus as I cannot recall this man's work or name ever showing up in
the FDA files on the Reich case (of which we have a relatively
complete copy at our institute).

But more to the point, Spitzer is:

* Adjunct Fellow of the Discovery Institute, a "conservative
Christian think-tank".
http://www.homestayfinder.com/Dictionary.aspx?q=Discovery_Institute

* Author of the "Spitzer Report" which was partly responsible for the
removal of homosexuality from the APA's list of mental disorders.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_spit.htm

* Prominently listed as a member of the CSICOP "skeptics" affiliated
"Council for Scientific Mental Health Practice", of which Paul Kurtz
(CSICOP founder and Skeptical Inquirer editor) is listed at the very
top. This list is a "who's who" of the American anti-science
"skeptic" movement.
http://www.scientificmentalhealth.org/council.html

For the record, CSCIOP ("Committee for the Scientific Investigation
for Claims of the Paranormal" http://www.csicop.org), is a group with
a history of attacking and smearing Reich since its very beginnings,
and indeed, a closer look indicates that is precisely the background.

From all these contexts, and due to a mis-reading of Reich, as well
as his early questionable therapy experiences, Spitzer appears to be
someone with an "axe to grind" against Reich, which has nothing to do
with the scientific facts of orgone energy, but which certainly
suggests a strong bias.

But there is more:

The publication's website carries prominent links to CSICOP and
Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
http://www.srmhp.org/0401/index.html

The contact information webpage for the SRMHP organization also
reveals further CSICOP-skeptics connections. CSICOP officer Barry
Karr is listed as Editor, revealing an Amherst, NY address (where
CSICOP has its headquarters), and the CSICOP-created "inquiring
minds" website as a contact email address for this same
Spitzer-article publication.
http://www.inquiringminds.org/

This "Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health" and its
publication "The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice"
therefore appear as total creations and "front-groups" for CSICOP.

CSICOP is thick with people who hate Reich's guts, and who have
happily distorted facts and committed numerous lies and
lies-of-omission regarding his work, and verifications of his work,
over decades. That an old student-research paper would be dusted off
for publication, some 50 years after-the-fact certainly suggests some
hate-anger motivations against Reich's work. See my articles on
CSICOP, which have previously exposed some of this stuff -- it is a
most reprehensible history of malicious attacks, smears and lies, and
even criminal offences:
http://www.orgonelab.org/skeptics.htm

But we should take heart from this as well. If the best the
organized "skeptics" can do is to reach back to a 50+ year old
unpublished paper which even the Reich-prejudiced medical journals of
the 1950s refused to publish, then orgonomy is secure, and as I wrote
in the "Orgone Accumulator Handbook" as early as 1989, "the effort to
kill the discovery of the orgone has failed".

Best wishes,
James DeMeo

More on Muslim Thuggery & Mass-Media Faking in the Middle East

There is so much in my inbox que on the issue of "Saharasia Today",
rather than clog up yours with more full articles on these questions,
I will post out only occasional summaries as below... unless
something especially significant warrants it. J.D.

Muslim Media Lying and Intimidation of Honest Journalists
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23933

Photojournalism in Crisis, by David D. Perlmutter
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003019475

Photoshopping history by Kathleen Parker
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2006/Aug-16-Wed-2006/opinion/8978545.html

Green Helmet Guy on Hezbollah TV
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22141_Green_Helmet_Guy_on_Hizballah_TV&only

Green Helmet Guy Admits Staging Photos, AP Spins Furiously
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22123_Green_Helmet_Admits_Staging_Photos&only

CNN Coverage Pro-Hezbollah Biased
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3291328%2C00.html

Lebanese Autos Miraculously Survive Airstrikes, New IAF Missiles
Mimics Sledhammer Damage
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22100_Lebanese_Autos_Miraculously_Survive_Airstrikes&only

Still More Photo Staging Identified
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22116_Still_More_Photo_Staging_Identified&only

Presenting false images
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060815-094239-5610r.htm

Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem - New Movie Documentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51poygEXYU
http://obrl.blogspot.com/2006/08/hitler-and-mufti-of-jerusalem-new.html#links

And once again, if you have not seen these downloadable movies, then do so:

Photo Fraud in Lebanon
http://www.aish.com/movies/JP/PhotoFraud.asp

"Pallywood" -- Fabrications of the Palestinian Hollywood
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22061_Pallywood&only

Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem - New Movie Documentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51poygEXYU


This incredible evidence speaks to one of the cardinal episodes of 20th Century Middle-East history, which set the stage for many of the problems being grappled with today -- as I have argued for many years, much of the contemporary violence against Israel today is "left-over business" since WW-II, stimulated by German National Socialism through its primary agent, the Mufti of Jerusalem. While many have seen the still-photos of the meetings between Hitler and the Mufti,
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
this new internet-posted video link presents the only known movies of their meeting.

Here's the official description:

This news report from Bayerischer Rundfunk explains in detail the cooperation between the Nazis and the Muslim Arab leaders during WW2.

It goes on to explain how high ranking heads of the SS fled to the Arab world and carried on their activities under the protection of leaders such as President Nasser and how modern Islam has adopted a Nazi style ideology of hate and conspiracy against the Jews.

Thanks to the Editrix (www.editrixoffice.com) for providing the translation and revealing this ray of light in the darkness of vitriolic reporting about Israel in the German media.

It is in German-language, with English subtitles. Here are some key elements of the text:

"June 1941. The Whermacht attacks the Soviet Union, for Hitler the center of the Jewish world conspiracy. From there, he intends to push further into the Middle East. For this plan, Hitler finds an ally in the Arab world. The Fuhrer received the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, one of the most influential men within the Arab nationalism. Here in the Reichskanzlei, a cooperation of many years between Hitler and the Grand Mufti takes off. Both have the same enemy: The Jews. The Mufti calls for Holy War under the swastika. He takes the lead of the Bosnian SS-division called Handzar."

... 1944...The Nazis get in the remote spa of Oybin in Saxony a secure place for the Mufti to hide. The lordly villa of the Mufti, the office building of his staff, and for the entourage a little chateaux. 1945, Hitler's Mufti elopes and travels unharmed to Cairo, and continues spreading his hate against Jews. The Egypt of the revolution under the Egyptian President Nasser provides a home for German Nazis like Johannes von Leers, one of the most odious NS propagandists. According to the CIA documents show Leers had been head of "Odessa" the infamous organization of former members of the SS. According to the CIA, it was the Mufti of all people who made Leers convert to Islam. Until his death, the Mufti never had to answer for his Jew-hatred. He has preached all during those years that there was a global Jewish conspiracy and that Jews are an inferior category of people. He has fully absorbed what the National Socialist ideology had taught him. The mental poison spread by the Mufti is effective even today. For example, in a bookshop in Cairo we find Hitler's "Mein Kampf" next to piles of antisemitic global conspiracy literature, including the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", finding their way into the news. Almost like Iran's President Ahmadinejad who goes on and on denying the holocaust and who has the Lebanese Hezbollah dangling from his strings. Especially repulsive: The TV channel of the Lebanese Hezbollah even broadcast a dramatization of the unspeakable "Protocols". Today racial antisemitism is established as a distinct ideology. This is also contained in the charter of of the radical "Palestinian" government party Hamas. In this charter Hamas relies, of all things, on the anti-Jewish "Protocols" -- exactly like Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf". Thus, a circle is closed with the pact between Adolf Hitler and the Mufti.

This documentary only scratches the surface, however, and much more is found in the book "The Nazi Foundations of Islamic Terror" by Chuck Morse, offered in the OBRL on-line bookstore, in the "Saharasia Today" section:
http://www.naturalenergyworks.net
For example, the Handzar Bosnian Muslim SS massacred nearly a million Serbs, Gypsies and Jews in the Balkans, and the Mufti was supported by the wealth of Jews killed in the death camps, wealth he took with him to Egypt for financing translations of Nazi propaganda into Arabic and other Muslim languages, including of "Mein Kampf" and "Protocols". He was followed to Egypt by many old SS officers who collectively escaped punishment for their war-crimes. They converted to Islam, took Muslim names, and were given commands within the Egyptian military, and in other Muslim armies, which attacked the new state of Israel in 1947, and repeatedly thereafter. The Mufti became the "spiritual founding father" of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the young Yassir Arafat became his protege.

But there is more to this stinking heap:

The first Nazi detachments dispatched in the spring of 1943 to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto were drawn from the Mufti's Muslim troops, as regular German divisions did not wish to partake of the awful slaughter required of them. (see Halina Gorcewicz in her book "Why, Oh God, Why?") The Muslim SS divisions were the worst of the worst, more cruel and savage than the typical SS division, which were bad enough. Influences from the Mufti and Nazi ideology are today found throughout the Arab League, Muslim Brotherhood, Baathist Socialism of Syria and Iraq, and virtually every Muslim terror group.
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html

While Islam has historically been saturated with its own Jew-hatred and conquest-ideology from purely Koranic perspectives, the intersection of modern Islam with elements of National Socialism and modern Jewish conspiracy theory adds to its intellectual underpinnings a fictional history and rationalization of its own religo-racialist superiority and destiny towards world domination. All they lack is the Western weaponry of the Whermacht by which to enforce their will upon others... but even this may not be necessary, thanks to sucide-bombers, long-distance missiles, and atomic weaponry, and willing crowds of a fanatical Muslim "fifth column" already existing in every major Western nation today. It is all the perfect ingredients for social blackmail and violence, something already seen in terror attacks or attempts against Western targets, and the veiled threats even from "moderate Muslim leaders" that Muslim communities "might become violent" if law-enforcement goes after the terrorists within their Western enclaves.

Review this material and learn, or ignore it at your peril. History is repeating itself in an accelerating drama.

If Today's New York Times Editors were in Charge in 1943...
They would claim the "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Is an Over-Reaction"



From ThePeoplesCube.com via Michelle Malkin:

The Real Reason for Hezbollah Agreeing to a Cease-Fire in Lebanon



"Oiy, Muhammed, we can't continue doing this for much longer.
Yeah, Ali, we'll have to go back to the old way, of strapping bombs on our beloved children."