Dr. E. Fuller Torrey (psychiatrist)
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| Name: | Fuller Torrey |
| Date of Birth: | September 6th, 1937 |
| Occupation: | Psychiatrist |
| Ethnicity: | white |
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey is in charge of the largest advocacy group for promoting a brain-disease-centered model of human actions, as well as the largest advocate of forced psychiatry.
In some sense he is the ultimate villain in regards to societies treatment of incels. Incels have a condition that is caused (mostly) by society, but incels are often forced into therapy to self-correct the symptoms of inceldom. Torrey's idea being that incels have a mmental disease (depression, schizophrenia, and/or social anxiety disorder) rather than being part of the collateral damage of the destruction of local communities and arranged partnerships.
E. Fuller believes that his mental-diseased model is correct because there is an empirically identifiable cause of many brain disorders: cats. He believes cats spread diseases which cause severe mental illness (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Immune_response_and_behaviour_alterations), and that this justifies his position. (It wouldn't regardless if it's true or not) (see end of this video)
Forced psychiatry commentary[edit | edit source]
Mental hospitals have been almost completely gutted thanks to the anti-psychiatrists of the 20th century. However, forced or coercive psychiatry moved from hospitals to parents, school administration, and local government officials. So it never really went away even though it (may?) happen less. Fuller Torrey does not want these laws to go away and wants to build them up.
NAMI[edit | edit source]
E. Fuller helped build the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), currently the largest mental health care group in the USA, through the royalties of one of his books.