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Israeli PM Natenyahu's psychiatrist commits suicide!

 
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Ivor



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:29 pm    Post subject: Israeli PM Natenyahu's psychiatrist commits suicide! Reply with quote

Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide
Anguished Suicide Note Cites �Deluge of Doublethink� In Driving Kind-Hearted Shrink to Despair
Moshe Yatom, a prominent Israeli psychiatrist who successfully cured the most extreme forms of mental illness throughout a distinguished career, was found dead at his home in Tel Aviv yesterday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note at his side explained that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been his patient for the last nine years, had �sucked the life right out of me.�

�I can�t take it anymore,� wrote Yatom. �Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there�s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.�

Psychiatrists are familiar with the human tendency to massage the truth to avoid confronting emotionally troubling material, but Yatom was apparently stunned at what he called the �waterfall of lies� gushing from his most illustrious patient. His personal diary details the steady disintegration of his once invincible personality under the barrage of self-serving rationalizations put forth by Netanyahu.

�I�m completely shocked,� said neighbor Yossi Bechor, whose family regularly vacationed with Yatom�s family. �Moshe was the epitome of the fully-integrated personality and had cured dozens of schizophrenics before beginning work on Bibi. There was no outward indication that his case was any different from the others.�

But it was. Yatom grew increasingly depressed at his complete lack of progress in getting the Prime Minister to acknowledge reality, and he eventually suffered a series of strokes when attempting to grasp Netanyahu�s thinking, which he characterized in one diary entry as �a black hole of self-contradiction.�

The first of Yatom�s strokes occurred when Netanyahu offered his opinion that the 911 attacks on Washington and New York �were good.� The second followed a session in which Netanyahu insisted that Iran and Nazi Germany were identical. And the third occurred after the Prime Minister declared Iran�s nuclear energy program was a �flying gas chamber,� and that all Jews everywhere �lived permanently in Auschwitz.� Yatom�s efforts to calm Netanyahu�s hysteria were extremely taxing emotionally and routinely ended in failure. �The alibi is always the same with him,� complained another diary entry. �The Jews are on the verge of annihilation at the hands of the racist goyim and the only way to save the day is to carry out one final massacre.�

Yatom was apparently working on converting his diary into a book about the Netanyahu case. Several chapters of an unfinished manuscript, entitled �Psychotic On Steroids,� were found in his study. The excerpt below offers a rare glimpse at the inner workings of a Prime Minister�s mind, at the same time as it reveals the daunting challenge Yatom faced in seeking to guide it to rationality:

Monday, March 8

�Bibi came by at three for his afternoon session. At four he refused to leave and claimed my house was actually his. Then he locked me in the basement overnight while he lavishly entertained his friends upstairs. When I tried to escape, he called me a terrorist and put me in shackles. I begged for mercy, but he said he could hardly grant it to someone who didn�t even exist.�

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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The more important question (or equally important), is why this didn't make any mainstream media sources?

Makes you wonder. Either a crackpot story or some people are really afraid to say/speak anything and media outlets are pressured to not touch it because of this. My thinking, given the prominent names stated, is the later.

His wife is an even bigger wacko...

To think we've been scared all these years that Kim Jong Il's finger is on a nuclear trigger.....

DD
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Fox



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ddeubel wrote:
The more important question (or equally important), is why this didn't make any mainstream media sources?


Are you joking?
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bacasper



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:01 am    Post subject: Re: Israeli PM Natenyahu's psychiatrist commits suicide! Reply with quote

Ivor wrote:
Psychiatrist of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Commits Suicide

Ivor, it i\s customary to provide a link when posting such stories.

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�Moshe was the epitome of the fully-integrated personality and had cured dozens of schizophrenics before beginning work on Bibi. There was no outward indication that his case was any different from the others.�



The other schizophrenics? He is actually calling Bibi a schizo? That cannot be a proper diagnosis. Schizophrenics never make to such successful positions. I am much more apt to go with Bipolar Disorder - Manic with Psychotic Features on Axis I plus Antisocial Personality Disorder on Axis II. Anyone know how much sleep Bibi gets?

In any event, this analyst did not do a very good job of managing his countertransference.

And what is this about neing locked in his basement? Was that a dream he had, or did it actually occur?
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young_clinton



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The OP doesn't have a link, because there isn't one.
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bacasper



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

young_clinton wrote:
The OP doesn't have a link, because there isn't one.

Yeah, I googled it. There are plenty of links.
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Leon



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Story sounded interesting so I googled it. There were lots of links, but none were from well known publications so it's hard to say how accurate this is.
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On the other hand



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
�I can�t take it anymore,� wrote Yatom. �Robbery is redemption, apartheid is freedom, peace activists are terrorists, murder is self-defense, piracy is legality, Palestinians are Jordanians, annexation is liberation, there�s no end to his contradictions. Freud promised rationality would reign in the instinctual passions, but he never met Bibi Netanyahu. This guy would say Gandhi invented brass knuckes.�


I find it a little odd that Netanyahu, for nine years, would have patronized a shrink who regarded his political views as a form of psychosis.

If that's how Yatom regarded Netanyahu's views, I have to assume that he would have tried to dissuade him from holding them. And then Netanyahu would have said "Huh? This quack thinks my deeply held political ideology is a mental illness. Time to find another doctor". So, the relationship would not have lasted nearly as long as it allegedly did.

The article actually kind of strikes me as a Borscht Belt-style psychiatrist joke, extended for a few paragraphs.
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Fox



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Come on guys. This is clearly satire. All the other links on google show the exact same text. Are there actually people here who hate Israel so much that they're taking seriously a non-journalist sourced claim that Israel's PM stole his psychiatrist's house and locked him in the basement?
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Koveras



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But according to the IDF the psychiatrist was launching rockets at Bibi from the basement.
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mises



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fox wrote:
Come on guys. This is clearly satire.


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�Bibi came by at three for his afternoon session. At four he refused to leave and claimed my house was actually his. Then he locked me in the basement overnight while he lavishly entertained his friends upstairs. When I tried to escape, he called me a terrorist and put me in shackles. I begged for mercy, but he said he could hardly grant it to someone who didn�t even exist.�


Yes. It is satire.
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Big_Bird



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rather amusing.

Here's something else to amuse, now we are on this theme:

West Bank Story part 1

West Bank Story part 2
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TheUrbanMyth



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fox wrote:
Come on guys. This is clearly satire. All the other links on google show the exact same text. Are there actually people here who hate Israel so much that they're taking seriously a non-journalist sourced claim that Israel's PM stole his psychiatrist's house and locked him in the basement?



Apparently there are.
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