Dr.Pilipenko wails on a 22-year old druggie, Natasha, to extract a cure. She will have to undergo twice weekly thrashings (60 lashes at a time) for three months in Siberia.
I guess I've seen or heard everything now, and I suppose I ought to wonder why good ol' Dr. Ben Carson isn't behind this new treatment method for addiction - evidently launched in Siberia of all places. (I mean, at the Reepo debate it was brought out that he was associated with a supplement maker called "Mannatech" which had to shell out $7 million for claims about curing cancer, autism, flat feet, warts and just about everything else).
But mayhap that's not in the same category as this new "therapy" trotted out in The Siberian Times. According to the paper, one Dr German Pilipenko along with a fellow practitioner Professor Marina Chukhrova, has launched a "land office" business whipping their willing patients in order to cure their assorted addictions, from drugs to alcohol to sex (mainly porn).
The dynamic duo have apparently treated more than a thousand patients, and - believe it or not - are now getting foreigners to try his unconventional method of 'limited exposure or pain', often as a last resort. Of course, it necessitates flying off to Siberia, Russia - which in itself would break most ordinary folks. Hence, we must conclude this method of therapy can only be for the one percent - who have to have the money to blow to fly off to frigid wastelands to an obscure clinic to get their butts beaten weekly for three months.
The Times claims Pilipenko has had success with showbiz clients and "believes he could help people like British singer Pete Doherty who has repeatedly failed to respond to other treatments." I have no idea who Doherty is, since I am not into Brit music, but who knows? If he has money to burn let him try it. But call me skeptical. Especially when I read bollocks like:
"Whether drink or drug addicts, or people who are miserable and depressed, these Russian medics say they have restored that simple ingredient missing from so many lives - happiness."
Please! Some poor schmuck - or lass (the Siberian Times photo shows a 22 year old chick lying down on the table with Pilipenko wielding some kind of thrashing implement in the background) is going to really find "happiness" by getting the living crap beat out of their behind? I find that about as hard to believe as that Ben Carson and Donald Trump are real, valid candidates for President. Sorry!
According to the paper (ibid.):
"The cure involves literally beating the addiction, obsession or depression out of the patient. Dr Pilipenko claims he is restoring or modernising a method of treatment known to previous generations including notorious cane-happy English schoolmasters and monks in medieval holy orders. "
Seriously? DO these two have any idea how violently English schoolmasters, headmasters used to beat their charges? (Hint: Read some of Charles Dickens' novels.) According to Professor Chukhrova, a psychiatrist with more than 25 years experience treating drug addicts and alcoholics:
'We cane the patients on the buttocks with a clear and definite medical purpose - it is not some warped sado-masochistic activity"
Fair enough. But what if the patient is some kind of spanko freak? Say he or she was paddled as a kid and now finds pleasure in it and so is addicted to the pain. How do you ensure the troubled person isn't going to get off on this therapy?
No one addresses this issue, but Professor Chukhrova claims that the "acute pain of corporal punishment stimulates the brain to release endorphins into the body 'making patients feel happier in their own skins'". We are informed that these endorphins are "happiness hormones" and these beatings- which cost up to $99 each, are supposed to release them. Here's the $64 question: As asked by one forum commenter: 'Why can't one of these forlorn addicts release the endorphins himself or herself say by self-spanking?' Well, that would certainly save the cost of a trip to Siberia and having to remain there 3 months for two sessions a week. But one of the therapists replied that one can't do it himself any more than one can tickle him or herself.
Pilipenko's theory is that all types of addicts, drug, sex and alcohol (also web-smart phone), suffer from a lack of endorphins, adding
'The caning counteracts a lack of enthusiasm for life which is often behind addictions, suicidal tendencies and psychosomatic disorders'
Both personally administer the 'medical spankings'. (He to females, she to males.)
How did this flogging therapy for addicts originate? We're told the treatment "was pioneered in Siberia by Dr Sergei Speransky, director of Biological Studies at Novosibirsk Institute of Medicine, who himself admitted to undergoing flogging treatment as an antidote to his bouts of depression."
Question: Who administered the lashes, doc?
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