Colleagues have published an extensive analysis of the popular and dangerous pseudoscientific procedures (bioneuroemotion, new Germanic medicine and biodecoding) that maintain that the origin of diseases is emotional conflicts.
This is an analysis that everyone should read, especially psychologists, to prevent this type of pseudoscientific practices from spreading within psychology courses, workshops and conferences. The article has more than four thousand words, but here we share a brief fragment:
One of the problems with these currents is that we all have emotions and we have most likely gone through some emotional conflict of greater or lesser magnitude, so we can all come to recognize ourselves as supposedly causing our illnesses. And the question arises: If my cancer is caused by a certain psychological conflict, then have I created my illness? And if I modify this and resolve said conflict, then can I heal myself? In relation to this, a patient (and friend) wrote directly and honestly a while ago.
Blaming the patient as the cause of their illness is one of the consequences of these currents. Furthermore, one of the reasons that lead people to use them is that the solution to problems is presented as “easily achievable” if one makes an effort. If these therapies do not work (they never work, although it may sometimes seem that way due to the placebo effect, regression to the mean, homeostasis or confirmation bias), it is clear that it is the patient’s fault, thus again blaming the cure. .
This can be devastating from a psychological point of view in terminally ill and vulnerable people, often diagnosed with serious illnesses and who turn to these pseudotherapies in search of miraculous solutions. These people may come to trust in the possibility of avoiding side effects of conventional treatments and being cured (something that does not happen).
Enric Corbera, for example, has dared to say in some of his videos uploaded to YouTube such blaming phrases as “The good ones always die, and I say: ‘No, the assholes’” (Cedeira, 2017; Garrido, Núñez and Hernández , sf; Méndez, 2017). Many of these videos cannot currently be viewed on YouTube because Corbera has claimed copyright. Videos that talked about cases treated with BNE that had reached a supposed “healing” have also been removed and ostracized; his withdrawal has occurred after these people died from his illness.
Another example of this is Corbera’s despicable blaming of parents of children with serious illnesses: “One of the greatest forms of violence that exists is overprotection. When we have mothers with children who have leukemia, we already know that there can be silent violence that the child somatizes in the form of a disease as serious as leukemia.” (Méndez, 2017).
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