Guest guest Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 http://www.cchr.org/doctors/eng/page09.htm Psychiatry has been internationally exposed for its human rights abuses that have been committed in the name of help At least 600,000 children are incarcerated in Russian institutions that one doctor calls " death camps " . The children are not " mentally ill " , they are physically handicapped, retarded or have been abandoned by poverty-stricken parents. Once institutionalized, the children are restrained in cloth sacks, tethered by limbs to furniture, denied stimulation, and sometimes left to die half-naked in their own filth. " Psychiatry remains an important and prominent problem in the human rights situation in Russia.... " — Dr. Yu Savenko Russia's Association of Independent Psychiatrists, 1998 As long as the neuroleptic regime lasts, these institutions deserve the inscription: `All you who enter here, abandon hope.' The Nazis killed their `useless people.' We let the bodies live, while we kill the souls.... The neuroleptic drug phenomenon... is equally contrary to humanistic and democratic values that emphasize the autonomy, integrity, responsibility, and value of the individual. " — Dr. Lars Martensson Medical doctor and researcher, Sweden, 1998 Psychiatry has almost not evolved in the last 20 years. Instead of developing more efficient and humane treatments, it has only created some new names for diseases whose existence are very much in doubt. It is medical nonsense to want to build a plan for mental health, based on a psychiatric practice, which remains inefficient and brutal. " There is necessary health care and there are needed vaccines: polio among them, and hepatitis. On the other hand, psychiatric diagnoses are a perversion of medicine and not only are not life-saving, they are a health hazard. " — Dr. Pierre Penichon, Physician, France, 2002 Aside from overcrowded institutions, mentally ill patients complain that they are rarely informed about their treatment, their daily regime or their prospects for the future. " — Daniela Lazarova Radio Praha, Czech Republic, 2002 Hungary's out-of-date system of institutions sustains a totalitarian form of control over patients. The environment within the institution is unnecessarily restrictive...The very fact that the practice of caging people still exists is a symbol of the ongoing violations of human rights and dignity that continue today. " — Dr. Péter Szabo, Chair, Human Rights Committee Hungarian Psychiatric Association, 1997 Previous Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 ahoi, i'll never forget the way they " treated " me! they're evil and sick in the head. (no puns intended) torpedo los! herr kaleun , " califpacific " <califpacific> wrote: > http://www.cchr.org/doctors/eng/page09.htm > > Psychiatry has been internationally exposed for its human rights > abuses that have been committed in the name of help > > > At least 600,000 children are incarcerated in Russian institutions > that one doctor calls " death camps " . The children are not " mentally > ill " , they are physically handicapped, retarded or have been abandoned > by poverty-stricken parents. Once institutionalized, the children are > restrained in cloth sacks, tethered by limbs to furniture, denied > stimulation, and sometimes left to die half-naked in their own filth. > " Psychiatry remains an important and prominent problem in the human > rights situation in Russia.... " > > — Dr. Yu Savenko Russia's Association of Independent Psychiatrists, 1998 > > > > As long as the neuroleptic regime lasts, these institutions deserve > the inscription: `All you who enter here, abandon hope.' The Nazis > killed their `useless people.' We let the bodies live, while we kill > the souls.... The neuroleptic drug phenomenon... is equally contrary > to humanistic and democratic values that emphasize the autonomy, > integrity, responsibility, and value of the individual. " > > — Dr. Lars Martensson Medical doctor and researcher, Sweden, 1998 > > > > Psychiatry has almost not evolved in the last 20 years. Instead of > developing more efficient and humane treatments, it has only created > some new names for diseases whose existence are very much in doubt. It > is medical nonsense to want to build a plan for mental health, based > on a psychiatric practice, which remains inefficient and brutal. > > " There is necessary health care and there are needed vaccines: polio > among them, and hepatitis. On the other hand, psychiatric diagnoses > are a perversion of medicine and not only are not life-saving, they > are a health hazard. " > > — Dr. Pierre Penichon, Physician, France, 2002 > > > > Aside from overcrowded institutions, mentally ill patients complain > that they are rarely informed about their treatment, their daily > regime or their prospects for the future. " > > — Daniela Lazarova Radio Praha, Czech Republic, 2002 > > > > Hungary's out-of-date system of institutions sustains a totalitarian > form of control over patients. The environment within the institution > is unnecessarily restrictive...The very fact that the practice of > caging people still exists is a symbol of the ongoing violations of > human rights and dignity that continue today. " > > — Dr. Péter Szabo, Chair, Human Rights Committee Hungarian Psychiatric > Association, 1997 > > > Previous Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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