Preventing World War III

Is Our Whole World Mentally Disturbed?

I am not a political scientist.  I certainly do not have military experience or knowledge.  I am not even, as the term is usually used, a political person, in that I do not conceive of things in terms of politics or at the political level.  I do not even consider what political parties are so preoccupied with—advancing candidates and winning elections—to be central to humanity’s concerns, other than the fact that politicians in general appear to be more harmful than helpful to our collective survival.

Instead, what I am is a highly-educated and well-trained psychiatrist, having been schooled in the most storied institutions of our modern world, with now decades of clinical, scholarly, and public health experience.  This is why, before Yale dismissed me for telling the truth, I was consulted by governments around the world and of this country, including multiple state governments and federal agencies.  Politics for me has therefore been, as German physician and anthropologist Rudolf Virchow once described, “nothing but medicine at a larger scale.”

In other words, politics matter to me only insofar as whether the policies advance or diminish life.  And, given the urgencies facing humankind, and with my background in medical anthropology and public health, I have decided to identify myself as a social psychiatrist.  My own textbook, Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures, illustrates how violent human behavior must be viewed from a bio-psycho-social-environmental perspective.  Politics, from this vantage point, is just one component in the social and environmental determinants of human thriving, health, disease, or demise.