Back in the day word leaked out of the Soviet Union that political dissidents were being incarcerated as mental patients. To be opposed to the outcome of the proletarian Revolution was seen as a symptom of psychosis. A rationale could easily be made that only a sick mind would seek to depose the all-powerful Communist Party. The logic of
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Szasz wrote a critique of the Rosenhan experiment from his own perspective. It has also been characterized by a leading pro-drug psychiatrist as pseudo-science. Still, it revealed significant aspects of the treatment regime of the time. The anecdotal evidence detailed in the report cannot be ignored.
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BTW, one of our students pointed out that American courts do not order forced vaccinations, though they might support denial of educational services to unvaccinated children.
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Here in America, psychiatry doesn't pick a person at random and determine them to be crazy. Psychiatry doesn't find people, people find psychiatry (and whether psychiatry is bullshit or not does not change this).
I'm not claiming there is nothing unethical or immoral involved at all in western psychiatry, I'm simply claiming that western psychiatry isn't aggressive (or as aggressive?).
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