Psychiatry has been internationally exposed for its human rights abuses

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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Hungary's out-of-date system of institutions sustains a totalitarian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

 

 

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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

>

>

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