Meldon wrote:

> "Dustbin"  wrote in message
> news:SAmWd.237917$B8.3851{at}fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
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>>ilya_shambat2004{at}yahoo.com wrote:
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>>Sorry mate, but this is not new.
>>
>>If you check out some of the anti-psychiatric
>>writings of the sixties and seventies you will
>>find similar remarks.
>>
>>The basic point is that many pspychiatric
>>patients have found themselves the emotional
>>dustbins of family and society and eventually
>>show signs of breaking down.
>>
>>Some writers have even refrred to clinical
>>psychologists and psychiatrists as carrying out
>>a kind of garbage collection service for society.
>>
>>D.
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> People in those situations are extremely vulnerable. If someone makes even a
> subtle error somewhere along the line the results can be more harmful than
> beneficial. On larger scale, society is the patient and a percentage of the
> people unfortunate enough to be in that position represents the level or
> severity of sickness of the larger patient.
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>
Certainly. In fact, in recent years I have been
using the increase in psychiatric problems to
try and get people to understand that the
society is seriuously problematic and that you
cannot blame it on genes when the numbers are
rising dramatically. For example; throughout
most of the twnetieth century, the mean
incidence of those seeking some degree of
psychiatric assistance was around 10% (7% males
14% female). Since that demented freak thatcher
got her clammy claws on power and the brutality
of the capitalists has increased dramatically,
that figure has steadily risen until now it is
around 20% and some psychiatrists have been
predicting a figure of 25% in the near future.

That the inhuman stresses of the capitalist
system was the cause of psychiatric breakdown
was a centre piece for the anti-psychiatric
movement throughout much of the sixties and
seventies. I think this is being substantiated
by the present trend.

D.



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