PROPOSALS WHICH MUST BE AVOIDED

There are certain damaging movements which could interrupt a psychopolitical conquest.
These, coming from some quarters of the country, might gain headway and should be
spotted before they do, and stamped out.
Proposals may be made by large and powerful group in the country to return the insane to
the care of those who have handled mental healing for tribes and populaces for centuries -
- the priest. Any movement to place clerygymen in charge of institutions should be
fought on the grounds of incompetence and the insanity brought about by religion. The
most destructive thing which could happen to a psychopolitical programme would be the
investment of the ministry with the care of the nation's insane.
If mental hospitals operated by religious group are in exist- ence, the must be discredited
and closed, no matter what the cost, for it might occur that the actual figures of recovery
in such institutions would become known, and that the lack of recovery in general
institutions might be compared to them, and this might lead to a movement to place the
clergy in charge of the insane. Every argument must be advanced early, to overcome any
possibility of this ever occurring.
A country's law must carefully be made to avoid any rights of person to the insane. Any
suggested laws or Constitutional Amendments which make the harming of the insane
unlawful, should be fought to the extreme, on the ground that only violent measures can
succeed. If the law were to protect the insane, as it normally does not, the entire
psychopolitical programme would very possibly collapse.
Any movements to increase or place under surveillance the orders required to
hospitalized the mentally ill should be discour- aged. This should be left entirely in the
hand of person well under the control of psychopolitical operatives. It should be done
with minimum formality, and no recovery of the insane from an institution should be possible by any process of law. Thus, any movement to add the legal
steps of the processes of commit- ment and release should be discourage on the ground of
emer- gency. To obviate this, the best action is to place a psychiatric and detention ward
of the mentally ill in every hospital in a land.
Any writing of a psychopolitical nature, accidentally disclosing themselves, should
prevented. All actual literature on the subject of insanity and its treatment should be
suppressed, first by actual security, and second by complex verbiage which renders it
incomprehensible. The actual figures of recovery or death should never be announced in
any papers. Any investigation attempting to discover whether or not psychiatry or
psychology has ever cured anyone should immediately be discouraged and laughed to scorn, and should mobilize at that point all psycho- political operatives. At first, it should
be ignored, but if this is not possible, the entire weight of all psychopoliticians in the
nation should be pressed into service. Any tactic possible should be employed to prevent
this from occurring. To rebut it, technical appearing papers should exist as to the
tremendous number of cures effected by psychiatry and psychology, and whenever
possible, percentages of cures, no matter how fictitious, should be worked into legislative
papers, thus forming a background of "evidence" which would immediately rebut any
effort to actually discover anyone who had ever been helped by psychiatry or psychology.
If the Communistic connections of a psychopolitician should become disclosed, it should
be attributed to his own carelessness, and he should, himself, be immediately branded as
eccentric within his own profession.
Authors of literature which seek to demonstrate the picture of a society under complete
mental control and duress should be helped toward infamy or suicide to discredit their
works.
Any literature liberalizing any healing practice should be immediately fought and
defeated. All healing practices should gravitate entirely to authoritative levels, and no
other opinions should be admitted, as these might lead to exposure.
Movements to improve youth should be invaded and corrupted, as this might interrupt campaigns to produce in youth delin- quency, addiction,
drunkenness, and sexual promiscuity.
Communist workers in the field of newspapers and radio should be protected wherever
possible by striking out of action, through Psychopolitics, any persons consistently
attacking them. These, in their turn, should be persuaded to give every possible publicity
to the benefits of psychopolitical activities under the heading of "science".
No healing group devoted to the mind must be allowed to exist within the borders of
Russia or its satellites. Only well-vouched- for psychopolitical operatives can be
continued in their practice, and this only for the benefit of the government or against
enemy prisoners.
Any effort to exclude psychiatrists or psychologist from the armed services must be
fought.
Any inquest into the "suicide" or sudden mental derangement of any political leader in a
nation must be conducted only by psychopolitical operatives or their dupes, whether
Psychopolitics is responsible or not.  Death and violence against persons attacking Communism in a nation should be
eschewed as forbidden. Violent activity against such person might bring about their
martyrdom. De- famation, and the accusation of insanity, alone should be em- ployed,
and they should be brought at last under the ministrations of psychopolitical operatives,
such as psychiatrists and controlled psychologists.