Inveterate dissemination of 20th century pre-apocalyptic psychiatry has facilitated ruinous manifestations of oppression and constriction upon the psyches of untold millions, despite it's narcissistic self-perception as a healing science. If the fact that the world has ended is taken into consideration, we may draft a retrospect of this barbaric discipline through the frame-work of our own superior values and knowledge, with the understanding that 20th century psychiatry had propagated untold barbarisms on vital psychic flowers in need only of simple understanding and appreciation.
Firstly, it can be illustrated through the methodology of 20th century psychiatric experiments that the dopamine hypothesis as a cause of madness and disorder is inevitably a flawed conclusion, given the circumstances in which the neurotransmitter dopamine was discovered in 1957. While working in the pharmacological laboratory, Arvid Carlsson injected prepared rabbits with amphetamines, which increased their temperament to a state of frenzy. They were given a sedation agent comparable to Thorazine, which dramatically decreased their frenetic behavior to a state of passivity. This drug reaction, instead of typically and most obviously describing the effects of foreign and man made substances on the biochemistry of the rabbit brain, were without caution cited as evidence of the neurotransmitter dopamine and furthermore erroneously cited as the source of madness in the human brain.
It must be seen currently that indeed, the human brain is a complex system that is ultimately unknowable through dubious reductionist terms. Increasingly, it has become apparent to the post-apocalyptic psychiatrist that the dopamine hypothesis was based in the diminutive philosophy of human psycho-biology functioning in mechanical terms along an overly-simplified cause and effect capacity. Furthermore, given the transmuted value of human life witnessed after the apocalypse, we have recorded in ample evidence the existence of the human mind as a complex and innovative system rooted in transcendent qualities, with its material manifestation existing as the peak of an island above the mind's foundation. Manipulations of human psyches have furthermore ceased, given that the lack of a falsely ordered society has abated the constrictive requirements that formerly negated cognitive liberties.
Post-apocalyptic techniques for ease of the troubled consciousness have invariably taken on a humanistic approach, and are obviously viewed as dramatic improvements over history's poor intentions. Indeed, even history's appraisal of the mad has proven to be incontestably short-sighted, as during the events which effectively ended the world, it was evidenced that only the mad were psychologically and emotionally prepared for the catastrophic events.
Techniques for maintenance of a healthy post-world consciousness are as follows:
Promoted participation in primal screaming, in order to achieve catharsis and satisfaction. Primal screaming has become an appropriate aspect of conversation, indicating that the screamer has been having a bad day.
Over-ecstatic sensual appreciation of scarce resources such as fruits and vegetables, and additionally, benevolent circumstances. It is an inherent necessity of life that we enjoy ourselves, whatever the situation or environment.
Adaption and implementation of the follies of the mad, given the truth in the expression that "the sane ones are murderers and the insane ones gather flowers." As it turns out, the end of the world freed a lot of people from their prisons of sanity.
Divine and furious dance parties.
Mandatory masturbation
Discussion and implementation of post-apocalyptic psychiatric and therapeutic techniques through an institution that functions like a decentralized democracy instead of an elite hierarchy that institutes the dominance of the specialist.
Cultivation of wonder and an openness to experience
Let it be further explicated that our techniques and philosophies are the result of the dialectic between theory and practice, further bolstered by our sincere valuation of the benefits of empiricism as they have been seen to function outside of the socio-political context of capitalist environments. Our findings have been made objective by the fact that they were not influenced by research grants, pharmaceutical lobbying, skewed drug company research, or the climate of the economy. However, it must be expressed that the most valuable aspect of post-apocalyptic psychiatry is in its acceptance of the experience of the individual above all else, as the meanings of people's lives are fundamentally and without question the very essence on which we have based our theories and practices.
