Soviet psychiatry
Sir,—To me psychiatrists, whether in totalitarian Russia or complacent New Zealand, are "subconscious confidence tricksters.” Such “professionals,” even in New Zealand, tend to have a jackboot mentality, tramping roughshod over the rights of a minority, forcing incarceration, drugs and shock treatment upon some unwilling, imposed-upon patients because in their unproven, unprovable deliberations, backed by State power, they deem them to be mentally ill, a danger to themselves or to the public. Psychiatrists world wide should be banned, made to take their own “cures,” replaced by psychologists as is the tendency in the United States. Surely a fundamental freedom is that a person should be allowed to think differently and to express himself publicly? I feel reasonably sure that M. Creel (March 8) is quite wrong in asserting that Christians, Muslims, Orangemen, or non-atheists may, unmolested in atheistic Russian public places, let alone from door to door, preach their beliefs, not permissable atheism. — Yours, etc., STAN WOOD. . March 14, 1983.
Soviet psychiatry
Press, 17 March 1983, Page 16
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