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SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us: Interview With Dr. Anna Salter
Predators Among Us: Interview With Dr. Anna Salter
This week on SOTT Talk Radio we’ll be talking to licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Anna Salter. Dr. Salter received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University and is the author of the best-selling book, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children.
Dr. Salter’s invaluable contribution towards exposing and understanding the predators in our midst comes from her tremendous courage in both treating the victims of violent sex crimes, and also from studying the offenders, interviewing them and compiling the videotaped interviews along with her commentary and analysis.
What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Lifting the lid on an unspoken, unacknowledged reality that sees countless thousands of sex crimes take place in towns and cities everywhere, Dr. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery.
Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Dr. Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves. As Dr. Salter puts it, “Knowing how they think and act and operate is the only protection we have.”
Religious people, Business majors and children of divorce are the biggest liars
Not a surprise.
Religious people, Business majors and children of divorce are the biggest liars
A new Canadian study concludes that the people most likely to lie for monetary gain are the children of divorce, business majors, and – perhaps most surprisingly – the religious.
The study, conducted by Jason Childs of the University of Regina, recruited 400 students from introductory economics classes at his university. Each pair was separated. One student, the “sender” was told that she was to provide her partner (the “receiver”) in the other room with a set of cash amounts. The “receiver” then would choose the amount she preferred to take home, leaving the other portion to the “sender.” In some cases the options were $5 and $7; in others $5 and $15.
Either way, the sender would have to make a decision: Tell her partner the real amounts – so that the partner would presumably select the higher amount – or lie to her partner and take the greater portion. Just over 50% of all participants lied.
Even more interesting is who chose to lie.
Men and women did not differ significantly, while the children of divorce took the lead spot in duplicity, electing to lie to their partners at a rate 29.3% higher than the group average. Next up were the business majors with a rate of lying that was 18.1% higher than all the other majors combined. “It could be that these students are more prone to lying by nature or training,” writes Childs. “It could also be that individuals strongly motivated by financial returns, and therefore more likely to lie for a monetary payoff, are more likely to pursue an education in business.”
What’s more, the researchers found that one’s likelihood for lying was directly proportional to reported religiosity and that their small sample of children raised by single parents (who separated amicably or were single due to death of a spouse) was significantly (39%) less likely to lie for financial gain.
How to win the war for your mind
How to win the war for your mind
All battles, all wars, all fistfights and bar brawls, all conflicts in every place and in every time (except those conflicts in which both sides answer to the same puppeteer) begin and end as battles of the mind. No struggle is determined on strength of arms alone. In fact, the technologically advanced adversary with all his fancy firepower is often more vulnerable than his low-tech counterparts. This fact is, of course, counterintuitive to our Western manner of thinking, which teaches us to believe that the man with the bigger gun (or the bigger predator drone) always wins. Sadly, we have had to suffer through multiple defeats and overdrawn occupations in Asia to learn otherwise. One of the great unspoken truths of our era is the reality that the modernization of warfare has changed little the manner in which wars are won. Since the beginning of history, intelligence, force of will, and guiding principles are the dominant factors in any campaign.
Therefore, it only stands to reason that the most vital battle any of us will ever face is the psychological battle, the battle within; for success in the mind will determine success in all other endeavors.
I’ve written a little commentary on this excellent article on our forum (click here to read it).
Dr Colin Ross Interview: CIA Doctors and the Psychiatry Scam
This was a great discussion! Did ya’ll know that Colin Ross was present at the Greenbaum Lecture?!
Dr Colin Ross Interview: CIA Doctors and the Psychiatry Scam
This week we’re joined by Dr. Colin Ross. Dr. Ross is a psychiatrist who received his M.D. from the University of Alberta in 1981 and completed his specialty training in psychiatry at the University of Manitoba in 1985. He is the author of over 135 papers in professional journals, most of them dealing with dissociation, psychological trauma and multiple personality disorder. He is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and Trauma and a former Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Ross is also the author of several books, including, ‘The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists’, ‘Military Mind Control: A Story of Trauma and Recovery’ and ‘The Great Psychiatry Scam’.
In his book ‘The C.I.A. Doctors’, Dr. Ross provides proof, based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained from the C.I.A. through the Freedom of Information Act, that there have been pervasive, systematic violations of human rights by American psychiatrists over the last 65 years. He also proves that the Manchurian Candidate “super spy” is fact, not fiction. He describes the experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new identities, hypnotic access codes, and new memories in the minds of experimental subjects.
In ‘The Great Psychiatry Scam’, Dr. Ross provides evidence that modern pscyhiatry is actually a pdeudo-science, with many of the main accepted theses about the causes of human mental illness actually disproven by psychiatric experiments and research.
Scientists: Creativity part of ‘mental illness’
Perfectly logical. Psychopaths have no creativity so they must label normal people who are creative, “mentally ill”!
Scientists: Creativity part of ‘mental illness’
If you like to express yourself through painting, writing, or any other form of artistic action, scientists now say that you must be suffering from a mental illness of some kind. In a new display of how truly insane the mainstream medical health paradigm has become, mainstream media outlets are now regurgitating the words of ‘experts’ who say that those who are creative are actually, more often than not, mentally ill.
After all, more than 50% of the United States is, by definition of the psychiatrists of the nation, mentally ill. Even questioning the government is considered a mental disorder. It should come as no surprise to know that upwards of 70% of the psychiatrists who write the conditions are – of course – on the payroll of those who produce the drugs to ‘treat’ the conditions. It should also therefore come as no surprise to note that the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the foundation of the entire diagnosis system) now contains over 900 pages of bogus disorders.
And perhaps creativity may soon be added to the massive textbook, which labels people who are shy, eccentric, or have unconventional romantic lives as mentally ill.
Is it any wonder that the 4th edition of the manual, which added hundreds of new ways to diagnose patients, led to a 40 times increase in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Even the lead editor of the DSM-IV Allen Frances, MD, has stated the book is utter nonsense:
“There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bull****. I mean, you just can’t define it,” he said.
SOTT Talk Radio: Good Science, Bad Science – Psychology and Psychiatry
This was a good one – we even went into overtime!
SOTT Talk Radio: Good Science, Bad Science – Psychology and Psychiatry
In this second in our series of shows on the topic of science and its benefits and negative consequences for mankind, we took a look at the use and abuse of psychiatry and psychology.
From the psychotherapist’s chair to anti-depressant drugs and diverse therapeutic modalities, psychiatry and psychology have come up with as many solutions for mental health issues as there are theories of what makes people tick.
While many individuals have benefited from some form of intervention or another, the application of psychological knowledge for propaganda purposes, mind control experiments and pure corporate greed has apparently left most people’s psychological health more fragile than ever.
This week, we attempted to sort the good from the bad and the ugly by ‘psychoanalyzing’ some of the questionable practices and theories of the mind, and untangling the confusion produced by psychological terminology that frequently overlaps the same basic underlying problems people encounter in our stressful modern world.
The Psycho-Therapeutic school system: Pathologizing childhood
Presently, we’re at an all-time high of eleven percent of all school-aged children in America who have been classified as mentally ill.
The Psycho-Therapeutic school system: Pathologizing childhood
According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control, a staggering 6.4 million American children between the ages of 4 and 17 have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), whose key symptoms are inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity – characteristics that most would consider typically childish behavior. High school boys, an age group particularly prone to childish antics and drifting attention spans, are particularly prone to being labeled as ADHD, with one out of every five high school boys diagnosed with the disorder.
We discussed the subject of modern psychology and psychiatry in this weeks SOTT Talk Radio podcast here:
In this second in our series of shows on the topic of science and its benefits and negative consequences for mankind, we’ll be taking a look at the use and abuse of psychiatry and psychology.
From the psychotherapist’s chair to anti-depressant drugs and diverse therapeutic modalities, psychiatry and psychology have come up with as many solutions for mental health issues as there are theories of what makes people tick.
While many individuals have benefited from some form of intervention or another, the application of psychological knowledge for propaganda purposes, mind control experiments and pure corporate greed has apparently left most people’s psychological health more fragile than ever.
This week, we will attempt to sort the good from the bad and the ugly by ‘psychoanalyzing’ some of the questionable practices and theories of the mind, and untangle the confusion produced by psychological terminology that frequently overlaps the same basic underlying problems people encounter in our stressful modern world.