What   About

A U T H OR I  T Y?

                                                            

Sometimes you've got to wonder… pieces don't fit… you're thinkin' -- what's it all about?

"What about Bob?" The psychiatrist's wife called to him. There was her husband roaring off in the car while "acting out" like a patient, certainly not a professional.

 "The biggest event in my career" had just taken place, and the psychiatrist was going bananas.   The big TV morning show had sent a production team to the man's vacation home on Lake Winnipesaukee for a live interview. It should have been a great kick-off for his new book, "Baby Steps".                                                                                         

                             

                                 

OK.  It WAS a great kick-off. Problem was that the "star" of the show turned out to be the emotionally troubled nice guy named Bob, who was hounding the newly published author. He had, puppy-like, followed Dr. Marvin and his family up from New York City to their vacation home, and he good-naturedly acted like superglue. He smilingly refused to disappear - and Dr. Marvin was descending into a psychotic episode of major proportions.

The nicer and more helpful Bob became, the more off-his-rocker became the psychiatrist.   You really had to wonder: which one of these guys has a problem?

The doctor's wife thought Bob was sweet, and fun. The daughter liked the guy a lot. The son, named Sigmund (named after guess-who) was having a great time playing with Bob. After all, the guy had succeeded in helping Sigmund overcome his fear of diving off the pier. Dad had tried, but just couldn't make it happen.

Dr. Marvin deceived Bob into getting into the car with him, then drove him to a psychiatric hospital "for observation." Bob charmed the whole staff, and the Doc's paranoia went up several more degrees. Back in the car, Marvin put Bob out on the road and spun the car away.

Then there was a surprise birthday party for Marvin, at which the mud-spattered doctor dove at Bob and upset the table with the big, candle-lit cake.

After everyone had gone, the doc breaks into a store, making off with materials for two bombs.  The next day they go out in the woods and he attaches the bombs to Bob. This process was, said the doctor, an "intensive therapy session."

After the grinning captor finishes attaching Bob to the landscape, and the weapon to his victim,     he sets the timer and runs off.   Sweet-natured as ever and still trusting his doctor, Bob interprets the "therapy" as an opportunity to "untie the emotional ropes."

The doctor yells, "I'm FREE! I'm FREE!" and cavorts on the pier outside his home. His wife and children drive up: "Oh! We're so glad you're OK. We were worried and went looking for you!"

Then across the lawn, Bob walks toward them from the house carrying the lighted birthday cake and singing, "Happy Birthday to YOU." The doctor's eyes are huge as he says, "Where did you leave the…"

"In the house", Bob answers, as all eyes turn in that direction.

KA-BOOM! With multiple explosions, the house lights up the sky, and pieces of it are flung far and wide.

In contrast to the shocked expressions on the faces of Bob and the family, hilarious laughter comes from an elderly couple in a canoe. They had long been angrily jealous that the doctor had purchased the property they had claimed for themselves. Now they just laughed.

Dr. Marvin is next seen seated in a solitary room, with a blank look on his face, and a blanket over his lap. He is holding a basket-weaving project.

The film ends happily at the wedding of Bob and the doctor's sister. When the minister asks the question - "If anyone knows of any reason why these two should not be united in marriage, let him speak now, or forever hold his peace." From his wheelchair, the doctor painfully forces himself to his feet and shouts, "NO!"

"Dad, you're back!" exclaims the son. Every one erupts in delirious joy as the film ends.

Let's consider:

The psychiatrist was a medical doctor with academic degrees, professional experience and recognition, and had just published a breakthrough book.  He was the center of his own universe, and could not cope with the disaster of being outshone by a simple, honest, friendly and likable guy-who happened to be his patient. When the doc's family liked Bob, and his sister chose Bob for a husband, the man's psyche splintered.

Bob remained unflappable in the face of the doctor's hateful attacks. He just kept going in his straightforward, honest and caring way, returning good for the psychiatrist' s evil. Hmmmmmmm!

This writer invites the reader to watch "What About Bob", enjoy the humor and ask yourself:       

Who was the A U T H OR I  T Y here - anyway?

A final thought:

 people are asking serious questions about

autism

broken relationships

suicides

murder rampages

in relation to psychotropic drugs, and the "science" of psychiatry.

If you are such a one, please see this remarkable documentary:

http://www.cchr.org/#/museum/drugs

The above is available on the website of the Citizens' Commission of Human Rights.

IT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY CHILDREN!

IT SHOULD BE VIEWED ONLY BY MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY STABLE ADULTS,

WITH BIBLICAL FAITH TO SUSTAIN THEM.

FAMILY MEMBERS WANTING TO HELP ANOTHER, SHOULD PRAY FOR THE

APPROPRIATE TIMES TO GRADUALLY, INCREMENTALLY EXPOSE A LOVED ONE TO

THIS TRAGIC AND SORDID HISTORY.

CHRIST CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE!

HE CAN DO IT, IN LOVE, THROUGH HIS OBEDIENT SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

WILL YOU BE SUCH A LIBERATOR?