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The following is a link to a series of documentary films that outline or explore Abuse in Psychiatry.

I find it fascinating and alarming information, but not shocking considering that most of us who identify somewhere on the queer/'homosexual' continuum would have been diagnosed with a mental illness prior to 1987.

The documentaries are quite long, but I'd love start up a discussion on the 'history of madness' and the current "industry of madness' that supports a huge pharmacological industry based on questionable diagnosis.

In the documentary one Psychiatrist refers to the DSM-IV as a 'dartboard' rather than a 'diagnostic too'.

Another complexity are the socio aspects of "mental illness" not limited to, but very much intersectional with gender, and the pathologizing of women's experiences:

Gender specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women include gender based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income and income inequality, low or subordinate social status and rank and unremitting responsibility for the care of others.

The high prevalence of sexual violence to which women are exposed and the correspondingly high rate of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following such violence, renders women the largest single group of people affected by this disorder.
(W.H.O)


http://archive.org/details/cchr_psychiatry

1) Diagnostic & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam
2) Psychiatry: Marketing of Madness
3) Psychiatry: Making Madness
4) Abuse in Psychiatry: The Truth
5) Psychiatry: Dead Wrong.

Thoughts? Reactions? WTF's?