Political abuse of psychiatry

>>1431994
Definitely. Also, civil rights activists in the US were frequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and institutionalized because they thought the government was spying on them and out to get them. Nevermind that they were correct more often than not.

Thomas Szasz and Foucault are great people to read if you want a history of the abuse of psychiatry.

>>1432019
Do you have a reputable sauce on the Civil Rights bit? I've never heard it before, but it sounds interesting.

>>1432156
This is an interview with a psychiatrist who wrote a book on the subject, titled The Protest Psychosis. Psychology Today is kind of pop psych junk, but the book was well-received by the medical and psychiatric community and various medical and black history journals.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201005/how-schizophrenia-became-black-disease-interview-jonathan-metzl

>>1431994
Certainly. Just look at how homosexuality was removed from the DSM.

If you don't mind the idea of reading Foucault, Madness and Civilization goes into specifically this topic.

>>1431994
Yeah but I'm sympathetic to the anti-medical movement and a member of Citizens Commission of Human Rights. So just ignore me

>>1432328
Are you against vaccines?

>>1432328
Also that's a Scientology group wtf?

>>1431994
Soviet punitive psychiatry was some nasty shit. It was arguably even worse than labor camps due to constant induced comas and funny pills people were forced to take.