For those amongst you who believe that psychiatry is a genuine science, think again!
Firstly, with one story-this happened 50 years ago and concerned a world famous psychiatrist, a mother and young daughter.
The mother brought her daughter of maybe 14 or 16 to the renowned doctor claiming she was mentally ill. She was in a relationship with a boy against her mother's wishes, a boy whom the girl claimed she loved.
In those days children did not have the rights, including to be heard and listened to, they do now. A child of 16 was under the authority of the parent.
The doctor believing the mother's controlling assertions took on the girl as his patient and without the girl's permission gave her electro-convulsive-treatment-that is sent powerful electric currents through her brain. She consequently lost most of her memories.
Over the years the girl retreived some of her memories, eventually recognising her boyfriend, whom later she married. To all intents and purposes the girl's life was ruined.
This kind of behaviour occurred frequently in Soviet Russia at the time and in other dictatorships around the world.
Q1) Ask yourself. Should the renowned doctor been charged and punished? After all, he abused a child and caused the child irreparable damage.
Answer_Doctors are part of the state like justices and police with rights over the ordinary population. If a psychiatrist says someone is mentally ill and requires treatment by and large they are believed.
But yes, he should have been charged. Unfortunately, they never are and such abuse as outlined above continues in some form or another today.
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