Dr. Dan L. Edmunds is a noted existential-humanist psychotherapist. He is the Founder of the International Center for Humane Psychiatry. Dr. Edmunds is in private practice in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania contact for consultation: DoctorEdmunds@DrDanEdmunds.com

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Excerpts from Dr. Edmunds' book ANARCHO-PSYCHOLOGY

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American society is now filled with the concepts of self interest, entitlement, and playing victim. The downward spiral of our economy should be no surprise, our attitudes have only led to this eventual result. As I have mentioned previously, the education system does not value or reward initiative or creativity, it is rather focused on the self interest of the educators and administrators who seek to have children conform to standards based on tests and gain their compliance so that the administrators can appear as if they have fulfilled their duty while the children actually languish. We are a society that expects others to 'fix' our errors and provide for our relief. We are a society of shifting blame. We are a society that does not seek to take ownership and responsibility. We are a society that knows not how to think critically but only to possess and consume. The American dream can be now said to be the American nightmare. We do not think of others, but we focus on our own survival, and our political leaders and the elite have placed persons in this uncomfortable position of intense worry for their own survival. When this occurs, the concern for others lessens, and we focus solely on our own needs, our own desires. Society itself is sick, yet it seeks to pathologize those who would react to this sick society, and it offers them its technologies, it offers them its drugs, to numb them into accepting things as they are rather than to actively protest and change the injustices that exist. American society has become apathetic and numb, and if such persists, our further decline is only inevitable. Let us hope that some will awaken from their stupor before it is too late.

We are controlled in this country by a ruling elite, whether we wish to recognize it or not. The elite have their paths paved for them. The middle class struggle to survive and are burdened and the elite seek to make them slaves to the system. For example, a middle class young person will be burdened with student loan debt possibly until the day they retire, the elite do not face this. The elite have created this system to keep people 'in their place'. For the poor, the elite have sought to entice them with financial incentives if they will go along with the sad debacle of having their children labeled as 'crazy' or to be shipped off to fight the wars that the elite have created and benefit from. Some are more than willing to submit to this system, to receive the governmental handouts and to abdicate their freedom as well as any responsibility for themselves or their children. The elite seeks to keep this nation ignorant and stupid. Our educational system has become not about learning at all but rather regurgitation of information as the elite would have it.


There is no present presidential candidate or any politician for that matter that can really save us from the mess we are in. Our only real hope is for people to flee from ignorance and to awaken to the real situation we are in, and for there to exist a true effort to restore social justice. Is it too late?

Saturday, July 11, 2009

BOOKS BY DR. DAN L. EDMUNDS

ODDITIES OF RELIGION (2009)
ROOTS OF DISTRESS (2008)
EXPERIENCE: THE SOUL OF THERAPY (2007)
CHILDREN OUR TREASURE (2006)

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DR. D.L. EDMUNDS, ED.D., B.C.S.A.

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Dr. Dan L. Edmunds is a noted psychotherapist, social activist, Comparative Religion scholar and author. Dr. Edmunds received his Doctorate of Education in Community Counseling from Argosy University of Sarasota. He received a Masters of Arts from the University of Scranton and completed undergraduate studies at the University of Florida with a major in Religion and minor in Sociology. He also completed post graduate coursework in Dispute Resolution through Nova Southeastern University's Department of Conflict Resolution and Analysis.