2011/01/06

Labelling Kids with Bogus 'Mental Disorders'

Mickey Z pointed to a video called “Psychiatry—Labelling Kids with Bogus ‘Mental Disorders’” in 2011: Coming Attractions?".

Any society that relies on oppression has to label those who do not fit in as suffering from mental disorders.

Anne Applebaum said, in Gulag: A History, that:

In the aftermarth of the Thaw, the authorities began once again to use psychiatric hospitals to incarcerate dissidents - a policy which had many advantages for the KGB. Above all, it helped discredit the dissidents, both in th West and in the USSR, and deflected attention away from them. If these were not serious political opponents of the regime, but merely crazy people, who could object to their hospitalization? (p. 488)

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