US Judge Believes Psychiatry Has Magical Power

This article indicates remarkable beliefs about psychiatry. First is that a US Judge believes that forced drugging can be used to "make [a suspect] fit to stand trial." These drugs are miraculous and have magical effects. Then there's James Cohen, Fordham University "psychology in criminal law" professor. Hello? Merging treatment with crime is dangerous. Medicalizing social problems is what the Nazi doctors did. Jews were vermin who needed to be exterminated. There is no appeal from a medical opinion. How can treatment be punishment? Cohen says the defense lawyers "think the medications actually disguise what's going on." That is what they do. Psychiatric drugs subdue they do not cure. In some cases they cause violence by people. The final laughable claim is that mental illness is hereditary. The drug companies will say anything to try to make their illnesses real and to increase their client base.

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"he continues to be forcibly medicated to make him psychologically fit to stand trial.
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he has been forcibly medicated for more than five months with psychotropic drugs. Even though psychologists say his condition is improving, his lawyers have vigorously fought the government's efforts to medicate him.
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"They think the medications actually disguise what's going on and that he should be judged on what's really going on and not based on what the medication created," James Cohen, who teaches psychology in criminal law at Fordham University, said.
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U.S. District Judge Larry Burns has ruled Loughner can eventually be made mentally fit to stand trial.
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Loughner's defense team has interviewed at least one of his relatives and sought records on other family members as part of an effort to show that his family has a history of mental illness.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/trial_not_likely_for_jared_lee_loughner_NHbkr1Kh2Dmr2gxvFMq48M

Trial not likely for Jared Lee Loughner in 2012
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Last Updated: 3:45 PM, January 6, 2012
Posted: 2:01 PM, January 6, 2012