Broad application of Wundt’s “man is an animal” theory had disastrous and widespread consequences. The psychiatrist expanded his sphere of influence from insane asylums to the halls of political power, and other institutions. The belief that force can monitor thinking, personality and behavior, laid the foundation for two world wars. Psychiatrists in Germany developed the pseudoscience of eugenics, with its ideas of “racial purity” and from this came Hitler’s political ideology that resulted in the Nazi Holocaust. More recent genocide activity or “ethnic cleansing”, as in the former Yugoslavia, is but a continuation of this brutal mindset.

Psychiatry has consistently invented more and more mental illnesses during the last fifty years, and the pharmaceutical industry has been quick to jump on the gravy train by inventing the chemical “cures”. The effects of these drugs create yet more categories of mental illness profiting everyone but the patient. It is not just mental illness, however. All societal problems which existed before the rise of materialism have drastically worsened through the use of materialistic solutions.

The statistics of violent crime and US government funding of psychiatry are disturbingly parallel. According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) figures, the violent crime rate increased 560 percent between 1960 and 1991! Meanwhile, psychiatric funding increased from $254 million in 1960 to $17.4 billion in 1990. Psychiatric methods in prisons have resulted in an 80 percent rate of repeat offenders. The rehabilitation of criminals is no longer even discussed as a possibility.