Every psychology and psychiatry student/resident should be required to learn how nations like the USSR used the mental health system to lock up political dissidents.
The APA was more than a day late and more than a dollar short with their rebuke; allowing “Dr.” Bandy and her “diagnosis” to circulate in the media for the better part of a week.
Schools aren’t even teaching about the gulags and Communist purges, much less the weaponization of psychiatry.
What makes you think they don’t know?