Dr Bob Johnson's Website

Psychiatry since 1980 has lost its way. For 40 years it has been marching resolutely in the wrong direction, leaving the comforting shores of Therapeutic Communities, in which I was thankfully trained, for the wilder reaches of an imaginary micro-neurological mire.

DSM-III and then DSM-IV firmly led psychiatrists away from humanity into a fantastical nightmare of ever increasing drug toxicity, amid a rising global death rate from psychiatric disease, which currently exceeds that of obesity and cardiac disease combined, according to the WHO. Time for a change.

I’m a consultant psychiatrist, trained in 1963 in the ‘healing hand of kindness’. Contrary to best medical practice, all that matters now are symptoms – not where they come from, or how to cure them. A bizarre micro-neurology has been dreamt up, which is false. Powerful drugs are cause increasing damage, and since they pay zero attention to causes, can only impede cure. Emotions, especially fear, underlie every psychiatric problem – but orthodox psychiatry resolutely ignores them – with unsafe consequences.

There is a competent, humane and highly effective cure for mental disease – and has been for centuries. The ‘healing hand of kindness’ needs to be heard against the cacophony of drugs. Time we had a campaign . . . . .

• consciousness
• Il Metodo Loiacono
• the cause and cure of psychosis
• drug damage in full
• talking cures for psychoses

The James Nayler Foundation founded in 1997, seeks to educate the public and the profession. We are currently working towards establishing ‘fear free zones’ where emotional distress melts away. Click the logo for more information.