Stanley Wilkin

University of London · several

An essential consideration of schizophrenia and its similarity to paresis and existence in the ancient world

By, from, and initiated by S.M. Wilkin Schizophrenia here is considered the original point of madness, signifying lunacy in general and how it is managed. The nature of schizophrenia ensured the move towards nostology, occurring dynamically only a few decades later, and it now defines mental illness in all its mistaken propriety confidence. Carl He...

The origin of knowledge, problems with psychiatric knowledge, nostology, and philosophy

A relook at the biological/chemical etiology of mental illness, critiquing that position and posing an alternative based on 19th century asylum culture.

A science or individual and group opinion. Psychotherapy covers a wide field and no single paper can deal with it all, but what this paper can do is consider the differences between psychiatry, now still in ascendent, and the former. By doing so hopefully light can be thrown onto both. Although apparently connected, each function differently and ha...

The Business model of Psychiatry, part of the American Dream!

Jack Kerouac and Psychiatry: PART 2. I found him. .. extremely capable, possessed of a refreshingly alert intellectual capacity and an ability to think independently. Mr. Kerouac adds to these qualifications a distinctly engaging personality which makes him win friends easily. He is a young man of fine moral character and good breeding. His self-re...

Jack Kerouac and Psychiatry: PART 2. I found him. .. extremely capable, possessed of a refreshingly alert intellectual capacity and an ability to think independently. Mr. Kerouac adds to these qualifications a distinctly engaging personality which makes him win friends easily. He is a young man of fine moral character and good breeding. His self-re...

This project concerns the introduction of drugs, medical and recreational, into the public imagination through creative processes and creative individuals that occurred after WW2. The sociological and political developments will be considered alongside the serendipitous emergence of drug therapies utilised up to the present under the guise of scien...

A continued exploration of psychiatry within Knower and Knowing constructs: searching for reality.

This paper raises the viewpoint that psychiatry is not a science but is something of a boy's club, even given the limitations of that viewpoint in the face of a very feminine sector. The institution functions outside of the societies it deals with, its constructions rarely usable or valid outside its own systems. Indeed, rather than science, proffe...

Introduction 1) Marxist Challenge 2) Archaeology of diagnosis 3) Cohen, Marx, and social constructivism 4) Drug Trials 5) Diagnosis? Is it realistic? 6) DSM. Propaganda or science? 7) Marcia Angell: The Epidemic of Mental Illness

A review of the extreme authoritarianism of psychiatrist and its capacity to alter reality, a short history of professionalism assumed from Robert Louis Stevenson's perceptive novel, Jekyll and Hyde, seen here as reflecting on the recent construction of modern professionalism and the consequent effects on thinking and perception, and the developmen...

An investigation into modern medicine, with an emphasis on Psychiatry.

This article considers the linguistic roots of the languages of the Eastern Slavs, where they meet and where they clearly have the same roots or often different ones, and the history of their developments. Modern commentators will be exclusively used. Influences on the different Slav groups will be considered and the extensive role played by Tatar...

This is the final copy, the other uploaded mistakenly.

This is the final and properly completed one of Muscovy and Mongols, previously and wrongly uploaded.

Although many doubt the role of the Mongols in Russia's government construction and its thinly applied society, this paper suggests that it was not all down to their 2 hundred year domination, but within that time the Muscovy princedom was secluded from the West and indeed many events in the old and then devastated Kyivan Rus. Problem lies in the d...

This article deals with Vladimir Putin and his criminalisation of the Russian state presented by Putin as justified by the West. This is his and the KGB´s understanding of the West as one intent on Russia´s destruction. Irrespective of the purposes of NATO, Russia´s attacks on its neighbours would have happened anyway as Putin´s desire for war is c...

The events in Donbass in 2014 are used to confirm reasons for the present war and also Russian brutality on a tit for tat basis. As a general concern it involves the roots of the present Russian/Ukrainian conflict and indeed its purpose.

Why Russia is not a European country. This paper considers regional development in Kyivan Rus with the movement of the capital to Vladimir and changes in the structure of the confederation whereby individual states received autonomy, specifically those at a distance from Kyivan Rus. This differentiation involved growing cultural difference and the...

This article examines the destruction and obliteration from memory of Kyivan Rus in the 12th century by a new power in Northeast Kyivan Rus, one that believed in power and ruthlessness.

The connection between religion and empire building in the medieval period. Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Carolingian Empire, and Kyivan Rus. The medieval roots of modern martial societies.

A completion of the previous paper on this subject, attempting to sever Kyiv Rus from Muscovy and in doing so demonstrate the role of the Greek Orthodox Church in the unjustified combining of two culturally dissimilar polities.

This paper investigates the origins of Kyivan Rus identifying three distinct economic groups within the region between Lagoda Lake and south Ukraine. This paper similarly investigates the role of the Greek Orthodox Church in the creation of Slav and Kyivan identity and the role of Scandinavian groups in the spread of the Slavs through Ukraine and W...

This is the re-worked effort from my previous attempt, which apparently some people could not upload. This attempt has corrected much, and added new material on the effects of myth and also on psychological aspects of authoritarianism.

This is the first part of a look at the Putin regime in terms of myth and memory construction and the re-establishing of medieval societies worldwide, not only in Russia. The 2nd part dealing with political myths and ideologies will duly follow. These are initially drafts which will later be fully prepared for publication.

This paper is another in my examination of slavery, following on from recent papers which were made into a book. This book will hopefully cover more on the nature of slavery, but here an origin is offered within Sumerian civilisation. Everywhere we are born in chains, but a few acquire freedom: The rise of cities from households in Mesopotamia a...

A review of Socrates' ideas, in particular of the soul, and his support of what today would be considered far right government. It asks one question amongst many: did Socrates work against democracy in Athens? It also asks: have we exaggerated Socrates and paid too much attention to his ideas?

This is a rewrite of the previous paper of the same name. This paper considers the roots of barbarism in warfare, exampled by Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine.

When did military and political barbarism begin? Birthed in Neo-Assyrian society, now found in Russia. An apt description of Russia's attacks on its neighbours, but one that may have attended the first acts of power and terrible cruelty packaged up by smiling authoritarian regimes. There is little moral distance between Assyria and Russia. Prigoz...

In an attempt to look at psychopathic personalities anew I have here looked at Putin and Hitler within a cultural perspective not a medical one.

This paper accompanies my previous one THE ECONOMICS OF TOTALITARINISM: CHINESE AND RUSSIAN EXPERIENCES, presenting the Russian experience.

This paper considers Chinese economics under the increasing totalitarianism of Xi Jinping and looks at the nature of authoritarian economics. A follow up paper, arriving shortly, looks at Russian economics under the authoritarian regime of Putin.

While the 20 th century was a period 1 of substantial recreational use of psychotropic drugs, the medical employment of the same or similar drugs grew much faster. In the first, choice prevailed, in the second the elimination of choice. The former gradually became criminalized even though there was very little difference in effect, if any, between...

This considers the nature of historical truth attached to religion and ancient narratives and further considers the nature of truth itself and how the above constructs modern identity.

An examination of the Arab invasion of Sasanian Persia based on new evidence, considering an earlier date for the invasion and the involvement of neighbouring groups in the attacks.

My paper looks at the truth of Chemical Imbalance as the cause of mental illness. It queries the truth of the claim.

A new view of medicine.

This is a further draft of The Arab Conquest of Maghreb

The nature of ethnic change in North Africa and the establishment of both identity and fanaticism.

This paper considers the Arab invasion of Egypt, the question marks against Islamic historiography, and the lack of evidence for the nature of the event. This paper considers the nature of Islamic Holy War.

This paper was previously uploaded but did not take. With difficulty, I found the original paper and expanded on it. This paper suggests that Monotheisms and violence entwine.

The Jewish texts and the Qur'an often speak with acknowledged venom of pagans and their religions. They were after all their, at one time, powerful competitors. Falsely the Abrahamic religions claim that only within their various books and from their various gods morality arises. In fact, the morality of the Abrahamic gods tends to be woefully nega...

This paper considers early slavery in Islam, and also in the Ancient Middle East.

There remains uncertainty as to the real nature of pre-Islamic Arabian society, Islamic portrayals of this period appearing to be part of the polemics against paganism, and with the paucity of information available it is difficult to establish the nature of slavery there. Although many adherents strongly assert that Islam was not a slave culture, t...

Monotheisms expanded at the end of the Roman period and filled the gap left by that Empire's fall. The monotheist empires that appeared provided group identity, new economic structures that were beneficial, but provided oppositional perspectives on the world, hate, and concepts of evil and sin.

This is the first of several papers on war, including one that delves into similar events in Western Christiandom at the same time. This paper again considers the nature of history, hearsay or evidence based, and whether the Qur'an exhibits genuine history or a bare skeleton further furbished by the fabulating tactics of later groups, here seen as...

Ideas of health and the importance of care in the Ancient World.

The connection between Osiris, Isis and Horus and the later Monotheist religions Christianity and Islam through the triads both use and the Maryam narrative.

This paper considers the historical relevance of Surah 33 and 24, which deals with war and the construction of the early umma through the female body and female sexuality, the real or suggested growth of Muhammad’s status, attempting to discover they add to or limit our understanding of early Islam. This remains an historical investigation. In this...

Was the Believer phenomenon a local transformation in a land thinly exploited by mono-theism, or a deliberate ontological change meant to challenge Judaism and Christianity that altered the purpose of monotheism, a scythe to eradicate paganism, and inculcate constructions of sin and forgiveness through conversion, intending thereby to change the pa...

A narrative of duplicity, duality, of monotheist morals and Eastern spirituality, of identity, the nature of the mind, London and various kinds of friendship., of the rich and poor, professional status and the philosophy of roles.

Islam has a known beginning found in The Life of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq, although this was edited by Ibn Hisham approximately two hundred years later. 1 Like the remainder of the biographers of Muhammad and the early conquest period it is extremely violent. Ibn Ishaq's work can be considered a theology, the nature of Islam, and also programmatic, ho...

'There is no doubt that the Arab Islamic expansion in both the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean regions constitutes a significant turning point in world history. It is important to remember that it is not only, or even mainly, through religious conversion that Islam has transformed the old world of the eastern Mediterranean. A particularly remarkable...

This paper concerns The Acts of the Apostles, the history of the Jesus movement after the death of their founder and the movement’s expansion throughout the Mediterranean area. During this period, the structure of Christian communities was created according to Didache (Milavic ), 2nd century CE Christian texts describing The Way of Life, with chari...

Early Islamic society, although noted for war, also established forms of exchange that formed part of imperial policy. It created wealth from suhl, taxation, social policies, and a credible economic system setting the middle east on a path to immense wealth and world power. Benedikt Koehler suggests that early Islam created capitalism. Invasion of...

A review of the available evidence regarding the Arab/Islamic invasion of Byzantium Near East. The state of the Byzantium defence is considered, the facts behind the Battle of Mu'tah, and the Islamic histories' claims of remarkable heroism for its main iconic characters. This is the first part of this examination and concludes before the main event...

What ideology drove 17th century English to colonise North America, a land already occupied by indigenous groups, many formed into tribal nations? Why did they seek to take what was not theirs, and engage in local if effective euthanasia? Why did land become more important than human lives? Although John Locke’s involvement in the genocide of indig...

The sirahs (Life of Muhammad) of Ibn Ishaq and al-Tabari are examined for the light they throw on the 7th century invasions of Sasanian Persia in hand with other groups of the time. This paints a slightly different picture to the traditional one.

Islam constructed through concepts of the imperial state mirroring Byzantine and Sasanian Persia. Islam as an elite construction.

According to Jennifer (Eisenhauer) Richardson 1 Women with mental illness have repeatedly had their performances and representations colonized throughout history. In this she alludes to the mad of the 19 th century being photographed, subjected to professional gaze and objectified. They were taken over and the colonising male culture, psychiatry, p...

Was the Qur'an written by several poets of the time, and was Islam a consequence of discourse amongst several prophets building up an Arabic religion related to Christianity and Judaism? There were probably hundreds of prophets, each located within a prominent tribe, independently working out Islam in response to local conditions.

Did the Ridda Wars indicate the rise of an Arab elite that assumed control of Islam? This paper considers The Life of Muhammad to involve both a theological and political treatise preceding the Arab conquests. It deals with other prophets of the time besides Muhammad.

These papers will continue attempting to understand and reveal the history of Islam, different perhaps to the claims of the various Life of Muhammad, which also consider the nature of monotheism-a religious development that arose from early nationalist Assyrian and Babylonian gods, appearing to have a direct concern with authoritarianism, imperiali...

Eastern Christianity and Islam developed together, with one shaping the other at various points. This can be seen in the creation of canon law, in competitive approaches to other religions, and a tendency of both religions to increasingly identify with the Pentateuch. Ancient Rome and Byzantium, its survivor in the East, both developed a world ord...

This is the draft of an introduction to a new book soon to be published dealing with the political construction and effects of modern medicine.

The upsurge of armies from Arabia in the early 7th century AD should be considered as less an Islamic invasion of Yemen, Palestine, Syria and the Sassanian Empire but an Arab uprising perhaps taken over by proto-Islamic groups representing an earlier form of ethnic religion inspired by Jewish and Christian examples. Whether the employment of a diff...

M. A. S. Abdel Hareem presents a traditional story of the composition of the Qu’ran as emanating from Muhammad, a merchant from Mecca, who received the verses from the angel Gabriel. He does not deviate nor question the received narrative. While this story has been endlessly repeated without alteration, knowledge of these events have come solely fr...

Persian ethics should have stopped slavery within its Empire. Many hold that the Persians did not encourage slavery within the Achaemenid Empire, but is this true? Does the practise of wealth eliminate or modify ethics? A HISTORY OF SLAVERY-a continuation

This paper challenges the objectivity of psychatric diagnosis and perspectives based on the early life and experiences of Janet Frame and the incarceration of sane women up to the present, alongside psychiatric perspectives of the lower classes.

Psychiatry functions within a set of beliefs that often have a tenuous relationship to the world in general. The crucial determinants of psychopathology rest on a social and historical concept that owes everything to a specific set of perceptions. The scientific validity of that viewpoint is unproven and is of a kind that would naturally resist pro...

Any history of Islam must at some point deal with the extreme violence of its birth, especially during the creation of the Umma, although similar violence can be seen in the creation of the Christian kingdom of Yemen. The massacre of the Christians at Naijan (523 CE) by the Jewish king Yusuf As’ar Dhu Nuwas (possibly alluded to in Sura 85: 4-8), fo...

Domestication of human beings, the role of psychiatry in Nazis' eugenic policies, psychiatric employment of potentially dangerous cover-all biological ideologies, Dr Rudin and his manufacture of the Holocaust.

The term Abrahamic used to embrace Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a misnomer as Christian books rarely mention Abraham and provide the legendary figure with only limited importance. Perhaps the tension between Jesus and the Temple authorities concerned his construction, denied by most authorities on the subject, of a new religion in which the g...

After much scholarship……. ………many introductory works and biographers of Muhammad have continued to proceed as if nothing has happened, reproducing more or less uncritically the traditional Islamic account of Muhammad’s life: even works by prominent scholars of Islam, after initially acknowledging the many problems with the source material, often na...

1 | P a g e ANCIENT FICTIONALITY: Muhammad, Medina and the Jews. Islam text is often dismissed by the sceptical who point to the intensity of its desire for authenticity as evidence of fabrication, or, conversely, believed fantastically by many of its believers, every word loaded with truth, unable to think on any subject without constant reference...

A consideration of conflict between Mecca and Muhammad, examining the myths which attend the conflict, Ibn Ishaq's sira, the Qur'an's meagre comments, and the authenticity of texts. Mentioning along the way iconoclasm, Abraham, issues of the time of composition, Zarathustra, Jesus, and Mecca's historical origins.

As the previous version was uploaded on a word version inaccessible to some I have uploaded a word version as an alternative.

The narrative of Muhammad’s spiritual revelation and subsequent quarrel with the Quraysh in Mecca seems well ordered, carefully composed and close to biblical stories in detail and novelistic technique. Before I look at the matter, attempt to understand the narrative, other factors require consideration. Al-Duri holds that the earliest Islamic di...

Several legendary figures emerged from in the Near East from the turn of the Christian era who through their initial efforts and that of their immediate and later followers brought collective ideologies into the world. These figures' lives have been added to and indeed reconstructed. Little of our knowledge of Jesus seems real, the later Mani's lif...

Plato saw a marked difference between slaves and freemen, warning that an admonition is insufficient when they do wrong but proper punishment is necessary. They lack the reasoning powers of ordinary people, having doxa but not logos. Belief not reason. Although a slave can learn by experience, he (Plato always referenced men, not women, although he...

Aristophanes’ play The Wasps begins with two male household slaves. Both are comedy characters who play a considerable part in the play’s development, which concerns a son trying to stop his elderly father from attending jury service, a paid form of democratic participation. The father, Procleon, effectively retired from running their farm, has not...

The development of Athenian governance resembled Sparta's early development although the road each then took seems, but only seems, vastly different. In fact, Athens and Sparta were opposing sides of the same coin with their employment of vast numbers of slaves meeting the same end. What perhaps they had in common, although this is not clear, was a...

The motive of this paper is to examine ancient ideas and evidence of mental illness, and the various constructs that gave them form. The lack of evidence for mental illness before the emergence and proliferation of the professional body of psychiatry needs to be investigated. Although there is available evidence in the Bible, it is usually symbolic...

The Helots of Sparta and the similarities to more recent serfs and 19th century labouring classes. The wealthy and the dispossessed.

While Freud is today unfairly lambasted by modern psychiatrists as unscientific their own claims to science are perhaps far more suspect. Freud has rightly been accused of producing an artefact of the analytic procedure that he invented but psychiatrists have done the same inventing a set of illnesses that respond only to their shock treatments or...

Concubinage was a Hebrew custom, one that may have originated through social constructs of slavery as seen in Hammurabi's Babylon where young girls were purchased for the dual purpose of serving as handmaids to mistresses and as concubines for masters. 1 The nature of marriage, in whatever form it took, was not circumscribed by sexual exclusivity e...

The problem of ethnic degeneration concerned early European psychiatrists of the 19th century and drove somatic investigation into the brain, coupled with concerns with eugenics. Purifying the human population of its dangerous racial defects emerged of course in full bloodied fury within Nazism of the following century. This paper must be viewed al...

Cynthia’s Tale demonstrates the crucial problems with psychiatrists’ examination and diagnostic processes: the methods used are poor, subject to bias and investigator influence. It also demonstrates their autonomous behaviour and complete dismissal of human rights. The reference previously to the concentration type conditions of old mental asylum...

Self-descriptions in most languages define the user as one of the People and the language employed the word or god's word. Bantu means The People, as does Inuit and Navaho. Some group names (tribal usually) means The First People. 1 Other languages even if the origins of their name are obscure, believe that anyone that speaks the language has some...

Cynthia noted a number of things about the reception area of the hospital. For this paper I have been souring through a diary in which she wrote down some of her experiences, although this was written when she was thirty. The residents seemed mainly to have social rather than mental problems, young rebellious teenagers, men and women running away f...

The apparent absence of slavery in the Egyptian Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom, with an ethnicgenetic symbolism within the claims of statehood.

Apart from here, people learn only from psychiatrists about the efficacy of their professional discipline and there is a tendency to believe their versions. Perhaps people know little of psychiatry’s history and therefore imagine it is the science it portrays itself to be. This is the first of several papers detailing Cynthia’s Tale.

wrote in Slavery as an Industrial System (1900) that early slavery was linked to economic conditions, although clearly other factors were involved. Slavery functioned and functions as a symbol of power as well as a convenient method of controlling muscle power to labour in fields and complete construction work. There were, and still are, different...

The term The Dark Triad resembles the title of a Hammer horror film of the 1950s and 1960s but is indeed a psychiatric description of three so called personality types of an apparently distinctively nasty nature-narcissism, Machiavellian and psychopathy. As often in psychiatry there appears to be a literary, indeed in this case filmic, quality and...

This project will be an historical view of slavery from the time of the first records until the present, attempting to understand its philosophical, political and sociological significance. This project holds that the constructs of slavery remain embedded in our worldviews affecting our social and psychological concepts. As an institution it still...

This paper will consider the historic probability of conquering armies emerging from Mecca and Medina with such rapidity and early success and compare the Arab military conquests with those of the later Mongols. They can be seen as compatible military events due to the seemingly nomadic nature of their societies and similarities of military success...

This brief paper considers two essential matters concerning the prescribing and nature of medical drugs. While such matters are not necessarily straightforward there are crucial fundamental elements worth considering here and elsewhere. Drugs and drug taking have been part of human culture from Palaeolithic times. 1 We are simply a drug taking spec...