Mr. Paul H. Yarbrough has written an excellent piece on how Brian Stelter Raised the Real Red Flags on Gun Control  in www.commdiginews.com 

I always love Mr. Yarbrough's writings and couldn't agree with him more when he critiques Dr. Allen Francis, a top psychiatrist in this country, who has written the book Twilight of American Sanity, which advances the theory that the election of Trump proves American society is dangerously mentally ill. Of course, Dr. Francis is the usual ivory tower intellectual, a man who is naïve and very ignorant about how the real world works. 

As someone who benefitted from a terrific psychiatrist over 40 years ago, before cultural paralysis gripped the USA, I am appalled by the incalculable harm that psychiatrists like Dr. Francis do to their profession and those they are supposed to be helping. However, it is instructive to recall that great chemist Louis Pasteur was exiled from Paris and threatened with execution by the French Academie of Science because he demonstrated again and again to the disbelieving doctors of his age the existence of microscopic living bacteria as the cause of infection. 

If Pasteur's much mocked tiny creatures who caused disease really existed, it meant that all practicing doctors were unwittingly killing millions of their patients with dirty instruments. Wealth and prosperity can lead to an ossified culture just as easily as they can lead to progress. Pasteur's discoveries eventually freed humanity from the scourge of disease and needless death. While Dr. Francis is in fact just as deadly to those he believes he is helping as those French doctors, that doesn't prove that psychiatry is bad, only that Dr. Francis is trapped in a cage of wrong ideas. 

To have some idea of how terrific a psychiatrist can be, you have only to look at the picture above of my psychiatrist, Dr. Frania Pizitz. Hers is a face that radiates good sense, understanding, humor, and patience.