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Brock Chisholm
Brock Chisholm

Brock Chisholm was a Canadian physician and psychiatrist who is considered one of the founders of modern mental health. Born on May 18, 1896, and passing away on February 4, 1971, Chisholm focused on the social and political aspects of mental health and played a crucial role in shaping post-World War II mental health policies. more

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“In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.”

“If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.”