Hentrich,
Thank you for your response. I will download the pdf file and I hope to read it some day.
It is not politically correct to say that psychiatry is a form of social control disguised as therapy. I think Tsar Nicholas I, used psychiatric wards to punish rebels, reformers, revolutionaries, and dissidents. Whoever suggested reforms he or she must be mad. A very smart czar.
But in my view the chief of the Cheka, Lenin´s police, Felix Dzershinsky, wicked genius, used more effective methods to deal with dissidents. Those prisoners caught by the Cheka were made to get naked and bathed in cold water with a temperature of 30 degrees below zero. They became living ice statues. In the Soviet Russia people could be sent to a psychiatric hospital by a court, a civil procedure, or on the orders of psychiatrists. The absence of symptoms of an illness cannot prove the absence of the illness itself, so they said. Those thugs in power claimed to treat or reeducate rather than punish.
And totalitarian regimes view manifestations of individuality as evidence of insanity. Punishment is called now rehabilitation.
In Saudi Arabia they have the Mutaween, or the Hayaa, which is short for the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Adultery. They monitor the implementation of moral principles, which they claim, are an intrinsic part of their society and their religion. All according to the wishes of Allah—the Almighty, the Merciful.” I suppose there they have their own psychiatrists too. The violation of religious law is as much a crime as threatening the integrity of the Saudi state. And last but not least I am sure psychiatrists and psychologists must be working full time for the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S.
Earth is a giant insane asylum.
Drive safely.