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To: aimhigh

Google “Psychiatry in the Soviet Union” and you’ll see where this is heading.


9 posted on 11/10/2014 10:55:31 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

See especially information about George and Zhores Medvedev. Both suffered at the hands of the Soviet psychiatrists. Chilling reading.


21 posted on 11/10/2014 11:01:04 AM PST by miele man
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To: Buckeye McFrog

In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place[1] and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem.[2] It was called “psychopathological mechanisms” of dissent.[3]

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used as a tool to eliminate political opponents (”dissidents”) who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted official dogma.[4]


43 posted on 11/10/2014 11:22:07 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How the Soviets used their own twisted version of psychiatry to suppress political dissent

George Dvorsky
http://io9.com/5940212/how-the-soviets-used-their-own-twisted-version-of-psychiatry-to-suppress-political-dissent


48 posted on 11/10/2014 11:28:01 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It's school psychiatrists that are prescribing the goo-goo pills that are making adolescent male teens lose their minds and shoot up schools.

Angsty teen schoolboys have been around since schools began. So have guns. What's changed in recent years, then?

Answer: Goo-goo pills. Concerta, Daytrana, Methylin, Ritalin, etc. All the kids are on them, recommended by their school head shrinker for students diagnosed with 'ADHD'. I'm surprised they don't have a dispensing machine in the school cafeteria. Gobble your crazy pills. Sit there quietly and shut up, kid. Right up to the moment you flip out and shoot up the joint, then we'll blame the NRA.

How this isn't a national scandal is beyond me.

58 posted on 11/10/2014 1:40:48 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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