voices, hearing

n. 1. a condition that the psychiatrist considers very serious. He should know.

Why are psychiatrists so fixated on people who hear voices?

This is my take on this question:

(1) Virtually all psychiatrists hear voices;

(2) The voices tell psychiatrists to commit brutal acts upon their fellow human beings;

(3) Most psychiatrists who hear voices do not know that they hear voices. Either they refuse to acknowledge that they hear the voices, or they confuse the voices with their own voice.

(4) Since they deny hearing the voices or confuse the voices with their own voice, they of course make their best effort to comply with what the voices tell them to do, no matter how illogical or barbaric.

For example, the voices tell the psychiatrist to "Burn them!". In the Middle Ages, the Inquisitor would have complied by burning the sinner at the stake. This would have made the voices happy and would have helped the sinner to think right thoughts. In the modern day, the psychiatrist fries his patients' brains with electric shock. This makes the voices happy and sllows the psychiatrist to help the patient think right thoughts.

(5) Since the psychiatrist hears voices, denies hearing them, and then commits heinous acts in compliance with what the voices tell him to do, the pschiatrist is quite militant in his campaign against anyone who hears voices and admits doing so. He must convince the patient that he doesn't hear the voices, and, failing that, must attack the patient's brain with drugs, electric shock, and lobotomy to get the voices to stop.

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