All Posts Tagged With: "indefinite incarceration"
The Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry
Psychiatrists alternately deny and delight in possessing special professional skill at detecting future “dangerousness” that entitles them to the special power to incarcerate individuals they so stigmatize in prisons that masquerade as hospitals. The American legal system makes heavy use of psychiatric determinations of dangerousness, as a result of which vast numbers of Americans are deprived of liberty and, at the same time, of opportunity to demonstrate the injustice of their detention. Examples abound.
17Jun2009 | Thomas Szasz | 10 comments | Continued-
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