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That's exactly what I'm saying. He was a hoaxter and didn't have a split personality disorder, which is what makes me think the writer is pointing a finger at the whole "excuse" (which in my opinion is not an excuse at all) of criminals getting away with harsh penalties by pleading mentally insane.

I think the movie is about many things, mostly about Vail's ego getting screwed in all sorts of ways. But part of his getting screwed is his renewed belief in the intrinsic - let's call it - innocence of man. I'm fine with all of this but it's the using of a very serious and real disease to prove Vail wrong that disgusts me.

That said, I like how the molesting problem (which is also very real and serious, as you can witness) is brought up and dealt with. All in all a great film with a bitter aftertaste. At least for me.

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All the so-called "mental illnesses/disorders"/whatever have been invented and voted into existence by a bunch of crooks at the American Psychiatric Association.

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exactly, and that was the MESSAGE in the Sixth Sense where one of these "hero" shrinks diagnoses Cole BEFORE he has even seen him as having "mood swings" [ie a normal boy] and thus he gets the USUAL treatment of Zoloft.

but the shrink had already diagnosed another boy 10 years before [sounds similar to this movie huh?] as exactly the same mood swings

fortunately the boy KILLS the shrink [also kinda similar huh?]

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That is not entirely true. There are several mental illnesses that were initially characterized by psychiatrists and are now acknowledged by neurologists as well. Case in point: schizophrenia. The term Schizophrenia itself was coined by psychiatrist and was initially thought of as spirit possession, alien attack and what not. Now we have advanced medical technique like Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map brain activity and diagnose schizophrenics. Psychiatry like most of our medical science is evolving. Don't diss science because you don't like its portrayal in a movie. As a scientist, I get hurt

"Psychiatry is like witchcraft."

Hey! I won't have that - stop insulting witchcraft!

At least witchcraft is based on reality, truth, nature and actually works. Of course, in the modern world, functional witchcraft is extremely rare to witness, but still.

Think back to Atlantis, ancient Egypt and their real, spiritual priests that knew what they were doing due to their training to handle all kinds of energies, lower and higher level spiritual abilities, temptations, super strong emotions and so on - that's what the initiation has always been about (not about some cult circle ritual invented by some idiots), that's why the pyramids are exactly the proportions they are and stand in the exact spots they do, to combine cosmic and planetary forces to protect the individual being initiated while their soul is outside of their body for extended periods of time.

That's why nothing rots in a pyramid built correctly at the correct place (around 2/3s from the ground), that's why it makes blades sharp and keeps them that way - it concentrates powerful energies to protect and nourish the body-energy system while the soul is away for extended period of time so the initiation can be done.

I know all of this is 'woosh' to this era's this planet's people, but someone has to tell the truth regardless.

So there's WAY more credence, history, truth, reality and actually effective power in witchcraft than psychiatry.

PLEASE stop insulting witchcraft!

Well, it's the whole 'western pharmaceutical treatment' approach to human health and the mystery of 'what makes someone a healthy human being' that psychiatry is only one part of.

Psychiatry is strange, because it requires no evidence, and it can lock away people without ANY due process - there are no courtrooms, lawyers, judges, defence, prosecution - all it takes to lock someone away and forcibly put them in neurotoxic drugs that commonly cause tardive dyskinesia, are just a couple of angry suicidal losers (research this, psychiatrists commit the most suicides, or at least used to - why is this, if it's a valid 'science'?) that parrot each other's 'diagnosis'' and a couple of signatures, and that's it. Now you have no rights, and you are treated as a faulty machinery fixable by synthetic lab chemicals that make a lot of money for the Big Pharma.

Between psychology and neuroscience, psychiatry sits somewhere in the middle - it's not really necessary, as if there's something actually structurally wrong with your brain, there's neuroscience to prove it. If there's something wrong with your 'thinking' (much harder to prove and closer to witchcraft), there's always psychology, that does NOT rely on simply drugging someone, but actually trying to dig into their thinking patterns and experiences and finding a perspective that might help them and so on (well, ideally anyway).

Human body is basically always treated as something that has to be 'treated' - it's NEVER to be cured, that would kill the Big Pharma business.

This has lead to a situation where millions of people that WOULD have been cured in ancient China with acupuncture and other methods, millions of people that COULD have been cured even in modern times by therapy and psychology and just 'better life circumstances' and someone listening and understanding them, are now basically 'permanently drugged' by the pharmaceutical chemical lab-concoctions, tested cruelly and USELESSLY on animals..