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Philippine president needs ‘psychiatric evaluation’, says UN rights chief
2018-03-11
[DAWN] GENEVA: The UN hum­an rights chief said on Fri­day that Philippine Presi­dent Rodrigo Duterte, who has launched profanity-lac­­ed diatribes against United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
 rapporteurs, needs "psychiatric evaluation".

Listing some of Manila’s actions against UN envoys, including filing terrorism charges against one, rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said "it makes one believe that the president of the Philippines needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation".

Zeid and other UN rights officials have focused significant attention on Dute­rte’s controversial drug war.

Police have killed more than 4,100 drug suspects since Duterte took office in 2016, but rights groups allege more than 8,000 others have been murdered in what they describe as crimes against humanity.

Posted by:Fred

#14  Don’t forget, they are ‘practicing’. No competence required.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724   2018-03-11 19:19  

#13  They see it as normal.

They see lots of things as normal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/onlinemagazin/status/931479112509808640?lang=en
Posted by: gorb   2018-03-11 16:39  

#12  They see it as normal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 12:10  

#11  the work of these Islamic scholars has the same relation to psychiatry that alchemistry has to chemistry.


A person of less restraint than I would snark "who has more experience with mental illness than the Arabs?"
Posted by: SteveS   2018-03-11 12:03  

#10  do you have a licence to practice medicine?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 11:48  

#9  Have your doctor send me your file. I'll get back to you in a few days.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-11 11:46  

#8  You believe in recovery, besoeker?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 11:42  

#7  p.s. I believe that psychiatry is b*llshit.
Posted by g(r)omgoru

Recognition really is the first step toward recovery.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-03-11 11:36  

#6  Look EC, I don't know about your Johann, but - I can tell you will full confidence that the work of these Islamic scholars has the same relation to psychiatry that alchemistry has to chemistry.

p.s. I believe that psychiatry is b*llshit.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 11:32  

#5  The statement that someone 'needs psychiatric help' is simply the the statist's way of saying "He's thinking bad thoughts."
It's not that they want to help; It's that they want to suppress.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-03-11 10:30  

#4  Sorry, but I can spoil it even more...

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), known as Rhazes in the western tradition. He was among the first in the world to write on mental illness and psychotherapy.

As chief physician of Baghdad hospital, he was also the director of one of the first psychiatric wards in the world. Two of his works in particular, El-Mansuri and Al-Hawi, provide descriptions and treatments for mental illnesses.

Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdalah ibn-Sina (980-1030), known to the west as Avicenna, was a pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-03-11 09:53  

#3  Shhh, EC, shhh - don't spoil my fun
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 08:03  

#2  If you are thinking of Freud, no, he didn't invent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Reil
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-03-11 06:43  

#1  UN ... rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

Psychiatry was invented by a Jew, Zeid.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-11 03:30  

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