Psychiatric Services
Sir, —Is it any wonder we need psychiatric treatment and brainwashers? When there are 50 or 60 different ways of teaching the same thing, a child’s brain becomes so confused that when it gets old enough to think for itself it has to employ someone to untangle things for it, and then it sees all it has been taught contradicted in practice: gambling, drinking alcohol, breaking the sabbath, war, etc. What is learned during the first 20 years of life takes the next 40 to unlearn. There are hundreds of people today filling their lungs with “lung rot," their stomachs with “gut rot," and their heads with falsehood. No wonder Robert Burns said. “A set of dull conceited hashes confuse their brains In college classes.”—Yours, etc., RATIONALIST. April 26, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 3
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132Psychiatric Services Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 3
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