"That was the everlasting moment he had been waiting for..."
In Spielberg's A.I.
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Welcome!
My name is Cesar Tort.
As Spanish speakers can see in the index section of this page, a few years ago I radically modified this website.
My critique of psychiatry is now relegated to a second plane. The reason for such a drastic change is that in the last few years I have read two authors that have changed my worldview: Lloyd deMause and Alice Miller. Though Miller and deMause do not focus on psychiatry, their legacy opened my eyes: it made me see that the child abuses in the psychiatric profession are only the tip of the iceberg of a much wider crime.
Since the times of our simian ancestors infanticide was common, and it continued through Homo sapiens in the ancient world. This can be gathered from the remains of the sacrificed victims. For example, in the city in which I live the ritual murder of children was regularly practiced before the Spanish conquest.
I confess that when I read deMause I was unprepared to face the vast body of historical evidence about infanticide, child mutilation, the tight and tortuous swaddling of babies, the ubiquity of incest and other atrocities, many perpetrated through millennia. Once in a while I had to suspend my reading of one of his books to give me a break before the horrific nature of the revelations.
Similarly, the books of Alice Miller made me to delve deeply through the very core of my being: something that detonated an emotional atomic bomb. Miller is right when she states that the suffering of a child victim of extreme parental abuse can reach the level of pain in Auschwitz and even more.
Due to what John Bowlby calls attachment, parents are the most notorious soul murderers. For those who have been emotionally crushed and years later have made contact with their inner being, this is obvious. However, it’s not obvious at all for most of mankind. Again, because of our attachment to the perpetrator, what we are dealing with is the foundational taboo of civilization: what Alice Miller has called the forbidden knowledge.
Alice Miller
Originally this page focused on psychiatry, about which I still have a word to say. Miller goes beyond the psychohistorians in this subject since she debunks the lies of the mental health professions. Miller’s work is far more sympathetic to the child’s cause than other child advocates.
Some parents and physicians are giving adolescents and children a variety of psychiatric drugs to control them. Some of these legal drugs are as dangerous as the street drugs. Incredible as it may seem, psychiatry is the only pseudoscience with political power today. However, I disagree with Tom Szasz and Peter Breggin’s epigones. The devastating consequences of child abuse is a subject that they ignore, as can be seen in Critics of psychiatry: blindness in the midst of vision. But I really pull no punches when writing about Scientologists and CCHR: a religious organization that purports to expose psychiatry from L. Ron Hubbard’s viewpoint. As can be seen in the Spanish section of this site, I wrote an entire book demonstrating that Hubbard’s and CCHR’s tenets are as crazy as psychiatry itself.