Psychiatric Propaganda

Underlying Torrey's arguments is the false premise that mental illness causes crime. There is no causal connection between made up illnesses with no pathology and crime. The decision where to incarcerate persons charged with crime and/or convicted is with the judge. It should not be in the hands of psychiatrists who remain clueless about due process protections and individual rights. Psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections, personal opinion masquerading as science. Psychiatrists believe their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. They claim omniscience and moral superiority. Emotions, protected speech and behavior becomes mental illness requiring loss of freedom. Torrey is especially offensive advocating forced drug treatment. He says mental illness causes homelessness. More likely homelessness causes eccentric speech and behavior. Besides Torrey's propaganda promoting taxpayer funded forced drug treatment, when will psychiatric critics be given space to counter this propaganda, e.g., Peter Breggin, Fred Baughman, Robert Whitaker.
 
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Police had arrested him 14 months earlier for cutting down three wooden power poles with a chainsaw, terminating power to 6,800 homes in suburban Buffalo in the dead of winter. Like most individuals with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, he doubtless had a logical (in his mind) reason for his actions: perhaps his voices told him that cutting off power would prevent a tsunami from Lake Erie from sweeping over Buffalo.
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He mostly refused medication. After all, he thought he was fine.
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Yet he would not have been in jail at all if his schizophrenia had received appropriate treatment. Tragically, his family’s efforts to get him medical help ran up against New York’s laws, which make the involuntary commitment of adults exceedingly difficult.
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Once a leader in public psychiatric services, New York State now shows how not to treat the mentally ill.
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_4_new-york-mental-health-system.html
E. Fuller Torrey
Albany Psychosis
How to fix New York’s mental health system
Autumn 2014