October | 2020 | Charles Konia, M.D.

On Recognizing the Emotional Plague’s Strategy

A functional understanding of the dynamics of emotional plague character’s social behavior is necessary before effectively dealing with it. In an earlier blog (9/25), fomenting mindless social change was shown to be the emotional plague’s weapon of choice. Although generally true, this does not provide an understanding of the specific methods that the plague has at its disposal. To understand and deal with them, knowledge of the psychopathology of groups is necessary.

A strategy of the plague is to set up an antagonistic, sadomasochistic relationship between different groups of people and exploit it. To generate social tension and conflict between blacks and whites, for example, leftist radicals function as provocateurs by politicizing feelings of victimization and resentment and fomenting hatred of whites by blacks. This predictably leads to destructive social action on the part of some blacks through rioting, looting, and a temporary reaction of force on the part of the police that accomplishes nothing in the long run.

The leftist provocateurs actions must first be identified and exposed as criminal acts of the emotional plague before these flames of racial discord can be permanently put out. But before this can happen, people have to begin thinking in a different way, functional thinking, that corresponds to the way things function.

October 29, 2020
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: emotional plague, functional thinking, leftist radicals, racism . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 3 Comments

The Economy is the Life Blood of the Nation

Baaed on people’s biological work function, the social life of the nation depends on the health of its economy. Shut down (immobilize) the economy and the nation is in a state of biological shock similar to that of an individual organism. If prolonged, both the society and the individual cannot survive. This fate is in store for America if an economic lockdown is imposed as a way of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic for an indefinite, open-ended period of time. This is the symptomatic solution that today’s mechanistically trained epidimeologists and many politically oriented people on the left, who know nothing about the vital function that the economy has on social life, are recommending.

The effective way to deal with the pandemic is keeping the economy alive and allow the nation’s society to undergo a social contraction as it is being done through the practice of social distancing, through taking social hygiene precautions against infection and keeping medical illness out of the hands of politicians.

October 18, 2020
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: American economy, coronavirus, lockdown, politization . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 5 Comments

The Emotional Plague’s Invasion into Psychiatry

Today’s degradation of psychiatric practice was another destructive consequence of the emotional plague that first started with Freud’s opposition to Reich’s attempt to extend his psychoanalytic theories of the libido and the neurosis into the social realm. This rift between them ended Reich’s association in the psychoanalytic movement and led to the development of Reich’s work into sociology (“The Mass Psychology of Fascism”) and into biology with the discovery of biological orgone energy.

With no natural scientific foundation to support it, psychoanalysis became vulnerable to attack by the emotional plague. In the 1960s, Freud’s functional understanding of psychiatric disorders was thrown out and the entire specialty of psychiatry became transformed into a mechanistic, drug-oriented system of therapy. Today, all that is required in psychiatric treatment is to arrive at a symptom-based diagnostic – DSM -system for the patient’s condition and the right quantity of the drug needed for each psychiatric disorder.

As a result, psychiatrists have abandoned responsibility for the patient’s health to the lay public. In order to have an understanding of the function that lay people can have in the mental health field, the existence of social orgonomy and the distinction between the individual and social realms of human illness is necessary. Non-physicians can be trained to practice social orgonomy, which deals with the individuals problems in the social realm, but they cannot become qualified to practice psychiatry which is in the biological realm.

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal (October 5, 2020), “more (lay) people are becoming therapists” … as … “more people (are) seeking out mental health help”. Antioch College, for example, has had a 200% increase in applicants in its clinical psychology program.

The qualitative component of psychiatric treatment has been relegated to lay therapists who have little, if any, understanding of the bio-emotional basis underlying psychiatric illnesses. They are simply not equipped with the necessary medical knowledge and experience to to their work. This situation is another consequence of the emotional plague.

Allowing lay people to treat psychiatric problems which are in the medical realm is one more destructive consequence resulting from the anti-authoritarian transformation of society that is destroying all forms of social authority including not just that of the psychiatrist.

The American College of Orgonomy is currently providing interested physicians and non-physicians with training necessary in the practices of medical and social orgonomy to qualified candidates.

October 11, 2020
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: emotional plague, medical orgonomy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 7 Comments