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'''Psychiatry''' is the [[specialty (medicine)|medical specialty]] devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of [[mental disorder]]s.<ref>https://doi.org/10.5116%2Fijme.5103.b037</ref> These include various [[maladaptation]]s related to mood, behaviour, [[cognition]], and [[perception]]s.  
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'''Psychiatry''' is the [[specialty (medicine)|medical specialty]] devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of [[mental disorder]]s.<ref>https://doi.org/10.5116%2Fijme.5103.b037</ref> These include various [[maladaptation]]s related to mood, behaviour, [[cognition]], and [[perception]]s. Modern psychiatry is intimately tied to [[Big Pharma]], which has a massive financial incentive to produce drugs for all sort of more or less fictitious conditions.
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The discipline is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. Reasons cited for this controversy include the subjectivity of diagnosis,<ref name=frana>{https://doi.org/10.7326%2F0003-4819-159-3-201308060-00655</ref> the use of diagnosis and treatment for social and political control including [[Involuntary commitment|detaining citizens]] and [[Involuntary treatment|treating them without consent]],<ref>https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.11</ref> and the side effects of treatments like [[electroconvulsive therapy]],<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=RvXzXnskJB4C</ref> [[antipsychotic]]s<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=yTwiAQAAQBAJ</ref> and historical procedures like [[lobotomy]] and other forms of [[psychosurgery]]<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=U5EZvgAACAAJ</ref> or [[insulin shock therapy]].<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17105748/|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences</ref>
 
The discipline is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. Reasons cited for this controversy include the subjectivity of diagnosis,<ref name=frana>{https://doi.org/10.7326%2F0003-4819-159-3-201308060-00655</ref> the use of diagnosis and treatment for social and political control including [[Involuntary commitment|detaining citizens]] and [[Involuntary treatment|treating them without consent]],<ref>https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.11</ref> and the side effects of treatments like [[electroconvulsive therapy]],<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=RvXzXnskJB4C</ref> [[antipsychotic]]s<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=yTwiAQAAQBAJ</ref> and historical procedures like [[lobotomy]] and other forms of [[psychosurgery]]<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=U5EZvgAACAAJ</ref> or [[insulin shock therapy]].<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17105748/|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences</ref>

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Discipline devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorder, can often be just a reinforcement of the prejudices of the era. Open for power abuse since there are less legal safeguards.

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.[1] These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Modern psychiatry is intimately tied to Big Pharma, which has a massive financial incentive to produce drugs for all sort of more or less fictitious conditions.

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The discipline is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. Reasons cited for this controversy include the subjectivity of diagnosis,[2] the use of diagnosis and treatment for social and political control including detaining citizens and treating them without consent,[3] and the side effects of treatments like electroconvulsive therapy,[4] antipsychotics[5] and historical procedures like lobotomy and other forms of psychosurgery[6] or insulin shock therapy.[7]

Punitive Psychiatry

Political abuse of psychiatry, also commonly referred to as punitive psychiatry, is the misuse of psychiatry, including diagnosis, detention, and treatment, for the purposes of obstructing the human rights of individuals and/or groups in a society.[8]  In other words, abuse of psychiatry (including that for political purposes) is the deliberate action of having citizens psychiatrically diagnosed who need neither psychiatric restraint nor psychiatric treatment.

Since forced psychiatry often has less legal recourse than criminal procedures, this can be a more effective and underhand way to punish dissidents. Some forms of treatment, like psychiatric drugs or lobotomy, will often permanently reduce the mental capacity of the patient. In addition, just the use of psychiatric treatments can often create a debilitating social and political stigma.

Canada

The Duplessis Orphans were several thousand orphaned children that were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec, Canada, and confined to psychiatric institutions. [9]

France

In 2018 a French court ordered French member of parliament and leader of the National Front Marine Le Pen to submit to a psychiatric evaluation as part of its investigation into her decision to post images of Islamic State executions on Twitter.[10][11][12]

United States

California

  • "5150 (involuntary psychiatric hold)" – There are many instances of usage of California law section 5150, which allows for involuntary psychiatric hold based on the opinion of a law enforcement official, psychological professional (or many other individuals who hold no qualification for making psychological assessment), which have been challenged as being unrelated to safety, and misused as an extension of political power.[26]

New York

Whistleblowers who part ranks with their organizations have had their mental stability questioned, such as, for example, NYPD veteran Adrian Schoolcraft who was coerced to falsify crime statistics in his department and then became a whistleblower. In 2010 he was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital.[27]



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References

  1. https://doi.org/10.5116%2Fijme.5103.b037
  2. {https://doi.org/10.7326%2F0003-4819-159-3-201308060-00655
  3. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2009.11
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=RvXzXnskJB4C
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=yTwiAQAAQBAJ
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=U5EZvgAACAAJ
  7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17105748/%7Cjournal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
  8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800147
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20111022154328/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20040619/duplessis_orphans_040618/
  10. https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-psychiatric-evaluation-ordered-islamic-state-isis-daesh/%7Caccess-date=2020-09-02
  11. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45590963
  12. https://www.leparisien.fr/politique/photos-de-daech-marine-le-pen-convoquee-a-une-expertise-psychiatrique-20-09-2018-7895910.php
  13. https://books.google.com/books?id=5bHxQBNWGHMC&pg=PA41
  14. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html
  15. https://books.google.com/books?id=NmHCGb3GvJoC&pg=PA35
  16. https://books.google.com/books?id=1YI0DvuukxkC&pg=PA305
  17. https://books.google.com/books?id=svaQthjrcf0C&pg=RA1-PA273
  18. https://archive.org/details/saccovanzettiaff0000temk/page/316
  19. https://books.google.com/books?id=C-jIEhfKPaYC
  20. "Negro Pastor Pronounced Sane; Demands Mississippi Apologize". UPI. Sarasota Journal 20 June 1958: 3.
  21. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/health/views/24mind.html?ref=science
  22. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D24hAAAAIBAJ&pg=882,4721408&dq=ralph+ginzburg&hl=en
  23. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/11/opinion/trashing-candidates.html
  24. a b c https://books.google.com/books?id=t1Bg9QEiCAMC&pg=PA14
  25. http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/?page=pt1
  26. http://www.dailycal.org/2011/12/11/silent-uc-berkeley-protester-detained-by-police/
  27. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/cop-nypd-psych-ward-whistleblowing/
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