Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

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Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

Eminent psychiatrist makes case ideology is mental disorder

WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

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Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

* creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

* satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

* augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

* rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

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[Jenn! 918]

So is there a cure?

[metta 0]

So is there a cure?

You mean for Rossiter , the psychiatrist?

[Jenn! 918]

So is there a cure?

You mean for Rossiter , the psychiatrist?

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So is there a cure?

You mean for Rossiter , the psychiatrist?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A pseudo-scientist espousing party politics thinly disguised with a crude veneer of his pseudo-scientific art. Hmmm... I guess he hasn't heard of confirmation bias.

So is there a cure?

You mean for Rossiter , the psychiatrist?

Bullet, rope or pills

[Peikko 1,575]

That is just nuts. However, it's an indication of how ridiculous the political discourse can be if you just stick a few labels on people and throw out some scary sounding sound bites.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The book is clearly aimed at the same audience market that buys trash by Ann Coulter or Michael Savage. Savage actually wrote a book entitled "Liberalism is a mental disorder". And he's no pychiatrist.

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Savage actually wrote a book entitled "Liberalism is a mental disorder". And he's no pychiatrist.

Michael Alan Weiner, better known by his pseudonym Michael Savage, is an American radio host, author, and conservative political commentator. He holds master's degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine. As Michael Weiner, he has written a number of books on herbal medicine and homeopathy.

I'll admit being surprised by the herbal medicine and homeopathy connections. Doesn't strike me as "typical" for a right-winger, but then again he does live in San Francisco so maybe some hippy has rubbed off on him after all!

[Peikko 1,575]

Who buys such things? Do they generate large incomes? I wonder if my local library will stock it?

[MrsCat 6]

The book is clearly aimed at the same audience market that buys trash by Ann Coulter or Michael Savage. Savage actually wrote a book entitled "Liberalism is a mental disorder". And he's no pychiatrist.

uuuuugggggghhhhhh . . . you just said the AC word . . . my day is ruined!

Personally, I like a little mental instability in my life. Makes things more interesting. I have a sense of entitlement with USCIS/NVC - I paid my money now give me my damn green card.

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Who buys such things? Do they generate large incomes? I wonder if my local library will stock it?

I don't know about income, but Coulter is a regular on the NYT Best Seller list....

Coulter is the author of six books, all of which have appeared on New York Times Best Seller list.

Her first book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (ISBN 0-89526-113-8), was published by Regnery Publishing in 1998. The book details Coulter's case for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Her second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (ISBN 1-4000-4661-0), published by Crown Forum in 2002, remained number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for seven weeks. In Slander, Coulter argues that President George W. Bush was given unfair negative media coverage.

Her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (ISBN 1-4000-5030-8), also published by Crown Forum, defends the presidency of Richard M. Nixon and accused Democratic politicians and the "liberal media" of undermining United States foreign policy. She argues that the correct identification of Annie Lee Moss, among others, as Communists was misreported by that liberal media. Treason was published in 2003, and spent 13 weeks on the Best Seller list.

Crown Forum published a collection of Coulter's columns in 2004 as her fourth book, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter (ISBN 1-4000-5418-4).

Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism (ISBN 1-4000-5420-6). Coulter argues, first, that liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself. Godless debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Her most recent book, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, was published in October, 2007.

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Darn it!!

Edited March 29, 2008 by LuzyC

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Gary you forgot to change IDs again

[GaryC 7]

A pseudo-scientist espousing party politics thinly disguised with a crude veneer of his pseudo-scientific art. Hmmm... I guess he hasn't heard of confirmation bias.

In reality he is a very real scientist. You may not agree with him but his credentials are sound.

CURRICULUM VITAE

LYLE H. ROSSITER, JR., M.D.

2580 Foxfield Road

Suite 204

St. Charles, Illinois 60174

General and Forensic Psychiatry PH: 630/587-5710

www.forensicpsychiatrist.com FAX: 630/587-5711

MEDICAL LICENSURE AND REGISTRATION

Physician and Surgeon, 1963, Illinois No. 036-038694.

Tax ID No. 36-2813490

D.E.A. Controlled Substance Registration No. BR1298315.

PROFESSIONAL STATUS

Diplomate in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1972.

Diplomate in Forensic Psychiatry, American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, 1984.

Private Practice, General Adult and Forensic Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatric Consultant to DuPage County Circuit Court, Public Defender

and State's Attorney's Offices; Cook County Public Defender's Office; Office of the

State Appellate Defender Supreme Court Unit, Kane County Child Advocacy

Center; private attorneys in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, California, Alabama and

Washington, D.C. Over 2500 cases in 36 years of Consultation, Evaluation,

Reports and Testimony in Civil and Criminal Matters.

CLINICAL EXPERTISE

Thirty-five years experience in assessment, diagnosis, psychodynamic

formulation, developmental analysis, and individual psychotherapeutic and

psychopharmacological treatment of Axis I syndromes, personality disorders, and

organic brain impairment. Twenty years experience in group therapy of

symptomatic, relational and personality disorders. Integrated psychoanalytic,

psychodynamic, self-psychological, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal modalities

in the diagnosis and treatment of neurotic, characterological, and psychotic

disorders. Comprehensive independent psychiatric evaluation and disposition of

insured disability claims. Comprehensive assessment of occupational functional

competence/ disability.

FORENSIC EXPERTISE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS:

Fitness to Stand Trial: Defendant’s capacity to comprehend legal proceedings

and cooperate with counsel; evaluation of effects of psychotropic medications and

neuropsychiatric factors on fitness and courtroom presentation at trial and

sentencing.

Criminal Competency: Mental state at time of offense for mental disease or

defect impairing appreciation of wrongfulness/criminality of acts and/or capacity to

conform conduct.

Mitigating and Aggravating Factors: Mental state at time of offense, provocation,

mens rea, developmental trauma, relational factors, neuropsychiatric/

medical disorders and brain injury factors.

Post Conviction Analysis: Scrutiny of civil rights violations; competency for

Miranda warning; competency at arrest, detention, evaluation, trial, and sentencing;

factors in mitigation/aggravation; medication and neuropsychiatric effects;

relevance of prior evaluations.

FORENSIC EXPERTISE IN CIVIL MATTERS:

Medical/Psychiatric Malpractice: Standard of care in provider-patient

relationship, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and disposition; evaluation

of injury and causation; consultation in deposition and cross-examination of

opposing witnesses.

Personal Injury: Post-traumatic disorders in survivors of medical emergencies,

physical injury, motor vehicle accidents, assaults, and closed head injury.

Competencies: Testamentary capacity, competency for self-care, management

of personal affairs, contract, marriage, testimony, pro se court appearance, and

parenting.

Civil Rights: Psychiatric damages alleged in ADA and sexual harassment claims

in workplace/commercial/public environments, post-traumatic stress syndromes,

functional disability, cognitive/ emotional/ occupational/ interpersonal impairment

assessment.

Child Custody and Visitation: Best interest of the child criteria, assessment of

personality variables in caretaker fitness, other-state removal criteria, assessment

of child development levels, attachment/relational variables.

EDUCATION

Elementary and high school education in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, 1943 to 1954.

Bachelor's Degree in Biology (with honors), June 1958, Beloit College, Beloit,

Wisconsin.

Doctor of Medicine Degree, University of Chicago School of Medicine, June 1962.

Medical-Surgical Internship, University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics, 1962-63.

Residency in Psychiatry, University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics, July 1963

through June 1966.

Associate Fellow, New York Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, 1980.

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Captain, U.S. Army, Chief of Psychiatry, Department of Defense (Top Secret

Security Clearance), U.S. Army Hospital, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico,

August 1966 through June 1968.

Associate Fellow and Training Supervisor, Institute of Rational Emotive Therapy,

New York, 1979-89.

Consultant, Family Service Association of DuPage County, 1980-82.

Consultant, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Aurora, Illinois

Region, 1981-1983.

Consultant, Public Defender and State Attorney Offices, Kane County, Will

County, Illinois.

Consultant/analyst on employee/staff morale, Central DuPage Hospital: multiple

individual and group interviews, conferences, written reports to hospital

administration, 1988.

Clinical Director/Advisor, Outpatient Psychiatric Services, Central DuPage

Hospital, November 1994 through February 1996.

Member Central DuPage Hospital medical staff, department of psychiatry, 1981-

2005.

Member, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 1984 – 2006.

Member, American College of Forensic Psychiatry, 2001-2006.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Loyola University, Department of Psychiatry, 1969 to 1971.

Madden Mental Health Center, Maywood, Illinois, 1969 to 1971.

PUBLICATIONS

Award, Illinois Psychiatric Society for paper, "Psychoanalysis and Learning

Theory," June 1966.

"The Cause and Treatment of Depression, Part I," DCBA Brief, DuPage County

Bar Association, November 1991.

“The Cause and Treatment of Depression, Part II," DCBA Brief, DuPage County

Bar Association, November 1991.

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS

Workshop, lecture, demonstration interviews on "Cognitive Perspectives in the

Treatment of Depression," presented at the Illinois Psychological Association

Meetings in Chicago, December 1981.

Lecture on "Courtroom Dangerousness," delivered to judges of the Circuit Court of

the 18th Judicial Circuit, DuPage County, Wheaton, Illinois, February 1985.

Continuing Medical Education lecture on "Tardive Dyskinesia and Malpractice,"

delivered to the Central DuPage Hospital medical staff at Winfield, Illinois,

September 18, 1985.

Lecture on "Concentration, Cognition and Affect in Coaching Athletes," delivered

at the Sports Performance and Rehabilitation Institute, Carol Stream, Illinois, July

16, 1981.

Continuing Medical Education lecture on "Forensic Psychiatry," delivered to the

medical staff at Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois, February 6, 1985.

Forensic psychiatric forum consultant in "Understanding the Insanity Plea or

Defense," November 27 and December 4, 1983, at the invitation of Judge Carl F.J.

Henninger, Chief Judge, Circuit Court of DuPage County. Simulated trial; lecture

delivered on "History and Current Status of the Concept of Not Guilty by Reason of

Insanity."

Videotaped lecture and demonstration delivered November 5 and 12, 1987, on

"Modern Cognitive Psychotherapy Evaluation and Treatment Techniques" to the

Department of Psychiatry, Central DuPage nursing and psychology inpatient staff,

Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois.

Day-long lecture, videotape and interview demonstration: "An Introduction to

Rational Emotive Therapy," presented to the Veteran's Administration Medical

Center Psychiatry Service staff at Knoxville, Iowa, September 30, 1986.

Lectures, supervision, demonstrations on psychotherapy at the Primary Certificate

Practicum, New York Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, Chicago, October 23

to 27, 1981. Same as above, April 11 to 15, 1984.

Transcribed therapy session, Chapter 8 in Wessler & Wessler, The Principles and

Practice of Rational Emotive Therapy, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco,

1980.

Lecture Series on Principles of Evaluation, Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric

Disorders presented to the Behavioral Health Services Staff, Central DuPage

Hospital, Winfield, Illinois, 1994; Personality Development and Psychodynamics;

Psychopharmacotherapy; Relational Factors in Psychotherapy; Psychiatry and

Substance Abuse; Principles of Informed Consent/Standard of Care.

Lecture on "Factors in the Assessment of Dangerousness," delivered to the

MacNeal Hospital psychiatry staff at Berwyn, Illinois, October 18, 1995.

Lecture: “An Overview of Forensic Psychiatry” presented to the Central DuPage

Hospital Medical Staff, May 10, 2002.

Lecture: “Suicide Risk Factors” presented to the Central DuPage Hospital

Psychiatric Staff, March 3, 2004.

Lecture: “Suicide Risk Factors” presented to the American Association of Legal

Nurse Consultants, April 2, 2004.

Lecture: “Adolescent Suicide Risk Factors” presented to the Central DuPage

Hospital Psychiatric Staff, October 27, 2004.

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