Autoimmunity
Introduction
Using emotional logic, every “bad” person was biologically born into a society with some form of mother and father. Just like the mighty oak tree, starts from a acorn seed. As psychological professionals, we have had long to deal with the fallout from political strife, international wars, immigration reform, poor legal precedent, and the medical model’s logic and approach to psychological science (O’Brien, 2024c; HERE). We have posited that the medical model’s adherence to law, political trends, industry standards, and the insurance liability logic is what we have defined as abusive psychologically (O’Brien, 2024b; HERE). Like living in a home where the parents are divorcing and they are not acting aware enough to manage their own affairs, they are deflecting their inadequacies, responsibilities, and shortcomings onto their children.
If social advocacy and client protections are required in our professional code of ethics and moral character is measured whether or not professionals follow laws that violate established science (HERE), then what that means to us is that the spiritual revolution will not be televised because it can only come from within. Readers will have to show up for real change to happen and so recovery can be established. As we have reminded our readers of what psychology developmentally sees the legal and political systems level of logic and moral development to be (HERE; HERE), we also have to remind our readers that nothing comes for free and if you are paying them for your poison, then you are giving your consent to have their products kill you. While government subsidizes corn for high fructose corn syrup for children’s cereal and screens are toxically in schools, we have to ask when will the field of psychology (a female dominated profession) become aware that she is in an abusive relationship with his fate, and not him?
Orientation
In psychology, we have long heard the themes of increased rates of medical illnesses and issues and have seen the connection between the mind and the body, but have to ask, why is it not allowed to be applied in society? With a dramatic increase in diagnoses of cancer since the COVID vaccine and governmental proceedings on COVID overreaction (HERE), psychology has to start to speak out against professional abuse of power (HERE; HERE), misrepresentation of psychology in law (HERE; HERE), and their role in political strife (HERE). Additionally, legal minds need to accept certain psychological answers as to what is within their scope of practice and what is not. We posit that the physical body is the psychological unconscious and the language that psychology speaks is supposed to be the one that everyone can understand. We say this in the face of psychedelics becoming legal. These medical illnesses have been linked to stress, trauma, and dissociation for generations, but we still live in a society and culture that is still learning about what addiction is because they are living in denial about what that words means (HERE; HERE) and what that reality require to know (HERE).
Discussion
When society grants indemnity clauses with immunity to corporate addictive behavior, presidential pardons for future crimes, and a moral character clause is required for all licensed professionals (HERE), then we have to look to the immune system to know what is going on in our professional relationships and societal dynamic. Unfortunately, the research on the immune system has been delayed for decades because the endocannabinoid system was only found in 2012 by the medical model. The main and primary purpose of this healing system, is to support the endogenous opiate system in the process of healing.
Conclusion
If “freedom of choice” from scientific atrocities (e.g., COVID coming from a lab and vaccine flu shot), if the laws inability to follow common sense (e.g., removal of religious exemption or not shutting down society) or their own laws (shutting down society during COVID was against their own laws), and if “the fight for the public safety” means anything, following their immature reasoning and logic is what has to be recognized by our readers (HERE). From a psychological and recovery perspective, these trends cannot continue if recovery is said to have been established.
They believe that the destructive behaviors can be extinguished by force, but that does not mean that these behaviors will not come back (HERE). Our reasoning and logic are what often goes against what has already been legally approved by the previous generation’s politics, stage of development, degree of healing, and imposed worldview, but what needs to happen is a mass awakening that occurs after healing from trauma. Posttraumatic growth, healing, and recovery are all the same thing. COVID and the vaccine are other global traumas that were supposed to wake us up, but have failed to because addiction is not accurately defined by psychology (O’Brien, 2023a). As the number of people in our practice are informing us about the people in their life dying from cancer, we must remind ourselves that they know not what they do and now we can know why (HERE; HERE). If the levels of maturity, moral development, spiritual growth, and ability to think abstractly is a sign of integration, mental wellbeing, and a mature society, then following their logic is going to kill all of us sooner rather than later (O’Brien, 2024c).
Implications
If corporations are people and professions are corporations, then holding professionals to a moral standard is reasonable. Indemnity and immunity clauses and presidential pardons comes at the cost of public trust and provides the transparency needed for citizen professionals wake up to the fact that they are addicted to not addressing, fixing, and treating the problems at hand; but what we know is that healing is what is needed. Healing cannot happen without acknowledging the injury or naming same intelligence that caused the disease.
Future Directions
We honor the dead by knowing that the difference between thoughts and emotions, here and not, and ethics and morals are our actions and inactions.
References
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O’Brien, A. (2023b). Memory Reconsolidation in Psychedelics Therapy. In Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024a). Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and healing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024b). Diagnostic Privilege: Meta-Critical Analysis. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and the healing profession as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Appendix 2. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2024c). Meta-Critical Analysis: The “Science” of Pseudoscience. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and the healing profession as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Appendix 3. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2024d). Moral-Ethics. In Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and healing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Chapter 14. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
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