Hasbro is the manufacturer of the Ouija board, which has ruined lives, caused murders and mental illness and markets it as an innocent game for children. Boycott Hasbro and its affiliates including Wizards of the Coast, Tonka and Milton Bradley.
A PARTIAL LIST OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO WARN AGAINST THE OUIJA BOARD
Numerous mental health care experts have issued warnings against the use of the board. Indeed, ouija board psychosis has become so prevalent that doctors have named the diagnosis “mediumistic psychosis.”
Dr. Thelma Moss, who is on the staff of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, stated that “…the Ouija board is no game and can cause serious dissociations of personality.”
Dr. Curry, a former medical director of the New Jersey State Insane Asylum believed that Ouija boards could have an unbalancing effect on those with a pre-disposition to mental instability.
Dr. Alberto Gonzales of the Pan American Institute of Health, Reverend Morris Cerrullo, and Dr. Marta Prohazka of Fairfax, Virginia, who in the course of treating paranoid schizophrenics came to believe that in addition to mental illness the Ouija board has led to “violence, even murder.”
Dr. Carl Wickland stated in 1924 that "the serious problem of alienation and mental derangement attending ignorant psychic experiments was first brought to my attention by cases of several persons whose seemingly harmless experiences with automatic writing and the Ouija board resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."
Psychiatric consultant R. Kenneth McCall has reported that 280 of his cases may be traced to “occult practices, including playing with the Ouija board.”
In the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology of the National Institutes’ of Health doctors Paolo Mazzoni, David Kimhy and Cheryl Corcoran sought to get some answers concerning the still mysterious development of schizophrenia in adolescents by studying a sample group of nine teens. They found that two of “…the older prodromal patients…included…a preoccupation with the paranormal including…Ouija boards.” Though a small sampling, the percentage of schizophrenic adolescents in the study who played with Ouija boards, two out of nine, or 22% is over twenty times higher than the incidence of schizophrenia in the general population.
Freddy Vasquez, director of Suicide Prevention at that institution, said that because of this game a vulnerable and impressionable teenager can fall into a trance of exaltationand distortion of reality through which could be easily led to a death program.
Peruvian Institute of Mental Health doctor Honorio Delgado Hideyo Noguchi warns that the Ouija board might lead impressionable, anxious or suggestible teenagers to suicide, generate hysteria, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
Dr. Marta Prohazka of Fairfax, Virginia warns that the “use of a Ouija has led to violence and even to murder…” During her practice as psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, she realized that many patients she had previously assessed as “…paranoid schizophrenics…” might instead merely be in touch with something invisible to her but visible to them.
On August 7, 2015 the respected Psychology Today posted an article surprisingly entitled “Can Ouija Boards Trigger Demonic Possession?”
Mexican psychiatrist Nashyiela Loa Zavala investigated an outbreak of mass hysteria as a psychogenic illness (aka, mass hysteria) and traced it back to a student who had used a Ouija board to try to influence the outcome of a school basketball game.”