Peter Huxley-Blythe

Peter Huxley-Blythe (16 November 1925 – 18 August 2013) was a British author and fascist.

Early life Huxley-Blythe was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the son of Annie Huxley and Henry Blythe. His father was a self-proclaimed "consultant hypnotist" who often worked as a stage hypnotist in the music halls and once ran as a candidate for the Labour Party under the slogan "Look into my Eyes and Vote for Me". Huxley-Blythe was the first writer in English on the subject, and through his writings on the subject were "highly partisan", he sparked interest in the matter. In 1975, he published a biography of Nicholas Dulger-Sheikin, a Russo-Greek man who worked as a spy in World War Two under the title The Man Who Was Uncle: The Biography Of A Master Spy.

In 1975, he founded the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP), based in Chester, England. The INPP was a pseudo-scientific group that hosted speakers such as a Dr. Richard Halvorsen who claimed autism was caused by measles vaccines and a Dr. Ursula Anderson who claimed that stem cells were regenerated by human memories. Huxley-Blythe and others at the INPP claimed that various childhood developmental issues such as Asperger's symptom, Attention Deficit Disorder, and problems with learning math were caused by "neurodevelopmental delay", which was described as the failure of a child's brain to inhibit the motor reflexes seen in infants that are normally switched off as a child ages. The INPP professed to be able to help to overcome "neurodevelopmental delay" for a price. |Discover magazine called the INPP a collection of "dubious people" promoting theories with no scientific basis. The same article noted the website for the INPP had had a footnote attached to the statement "Peter Blythe, PhD" reading "The INPP is an apolitical organization. It does not reflect or support any political, cultural, social or religious ideology or the personal views of its members or former members." About this statement, the article noted: "Well, that's good to hear. Because if they did reflect the ideology of their members, let's say, of their founder, then they would be a fascist organization. Quite literally."

In 1979, he published a book with David McGlown An Organic Basis for Neuroses and Educational Difficulties, where he argued that learning disabilities in children were caused by immaturity in the functioning of central nervous system, which could be improved without drugs by his methods. His approach to remediating some learning disabilities was to replicate some of the movements of early childhood to give the brain "a second chance" to re-educate motor pathways in the nervous system to improve coordination, balance, postural control and centres involved in the control of eye movements. The website for the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology claimed that the "INPP Method" of "reconditioning" the body had helped thousands of children with learning disabilities since the 1970s. In 2001, he retired as the director of the INPP, to be succeeded by his wife Sally.

In 2004, he published his last book, Under the St. Andrew's Cross, an admiring account of Russian volunteers who fought for Nazi Germany in World War Two with a foreword by Count Nikolai Tolstoy. In writing Under the St. Andrew's Cross, he was assisted by Antonio J. Muñoz, a Cuban-American amateur historian who specialises in the Eastern Front.

Huxley-Blythe was closely involved in the INPP until a year before his death, and the institute is now headed by his widow Sally. About Sally Blythe, the British psychologist Dorothy V. M. Bishop wrote in 2011: Mrs Goddard Blythe is entitled to her views. My concern is with the blurring of the distinction between opinion and evidence. When a view about effects of parenting is widely promulgated on national media, and is expressed by someone who is described as a consultant in neurodevelopmental education and Director of an Institute, the natural assumption is made that (a) they are speaking from a position of authority, and (b) they have some hard evidence. In this case, neither appears to be true.

Publications Books Betrayal: The Story of Russian Anti-Communism. London: Friends of National Russia, 1955. The East Came West. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1964. Hypnotism: Its Power and Practice. London: Taplinger, 1971. . Stress Disease The Glowing Plague. London: Arthur Barker, 1973. . Drugless Medicine Herbalism, Homopathy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Chripopathic. London: Arthur Barker, 1974. . The Man Who Was Uncle: The Biography of a Master Spy. London: Arthur Barker, 1975. . Self-Hypnotism Its Power and Potential. London: Arthur Barker, 1976. . An Organic Basis for Neuroses and Educational Difficulties: A new look at the Minimal Brain Dysfunction syndrome, with David Mcglown. Chester: Insight Publications, 1979. . Under the St. Andrew's Cross: Russian & Cossack Volunteers in World War II, 1941-1945. Bayside, NY: Europa Books, 2004. . The Eichmann Trial: An Incredible Spectacle. Whitefish, Montana: Literary Licensing, 2011. . Emotions That Kill Feelings That Heal: How Modern Medicine has Divorced the Mind From the Body. Chester: Insight Publication, 2016.

Book contributions Foreword. Miracle Children: Behavior and Learning Disabilities, by Anna Buck. Northglenn, Colorado: Anna's House, 2008.