In the past two decades, the "social defeat" hypothesis of what the pseudo-science cult Psychiatry calls "schizophrenia" has gotten pretty popular (Tidey, 1996; Selten, 2005, 2013; 2016; Schalbroeck, 2020). Introduce a rat into a cage where they are dominated into submission and they will display the "social defeat" response (Tidey, 1996). You would have to be an idiot to believe this response had nothing to do with the external vector of the other rats being bullies, but that it instead developed spontaneously, generatio spontanea. And this is what believers in Psychiatry are, idiots. Incredibly dumb people. What Psychiatry, as a pseudo-science, diagnoses in people in society is reactions to government coercion, government in human society being the evolution of rats dominating each other (Price , 1967; Moncrieff, 2010; Nygren, 2019).

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