Candida International Update: "No Freedom, Thankyou, We're
French!" by Jacques Valentin
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November 11, 2004
www.communicationagents.com/emma_holister/2004/09/15/no_freedom_thank
you_were_french.htm
The constant hammering by the media about the links between
psychotherapy, charlatanism and sects has become so insistent and
encounters so little resistance that we are witnessing a massive
impregnation of the collective and individual unconscious which has
taken on considerable proportions during the last few years. All users
and practitioners of psychotherapy and personal development can only be
struck by the way in which the theme is now omnipresent and it is
perhaps a source of worry and anxiety amongst certain patients. It is
equally impossible to present a therapy to the press without
journalists fretting about legitimising a sect-like approach. . .This
essentially repressive text is clearly inspired by the measures used
for the illegal practice of medicine. We rediscover with this
amendment, practically word for word, the measures within the field of
medicine that permit the harassment of healthcare professionals who are
not doctors (nutritionists, healers, naturopaths, osteopaths et al.)
for the illegal practice of medicine. This includes the harassment of
innovative doctors searching to develop new health systems and who are
pursued for 'unproven medical practices' or, to use the deliberately
stigmatising expression of the Council of the Order of Doctors, for
'charlatanism'. Let us not forget that these measures already make
France, in the domain of medicine, a completely backward country
compared to other developed countries.
