In Russia, Psychiatry Is Again a Tool Against Dissent

[2Design]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901592.html
DUBNA, Russia -- On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko's home, breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer. One policeman put her 78-year-old mother, Valentina, in a storage closet while Trutko, 42, was carried out to a waiting ambulance. It took her to the nearby Psychiatric Hospital No. 14.

The former nuclear scientist, a vocal activist and public defender for several years in this city 70 miles north of Moscow, spent the next six weeks undergoing a daily regimen of injections and drugs to treat what was diagnosed as a "paranoid personality disorder."

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soon to be coming to usa under the current government

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. watch for it at a theater near you.

amazing.

[MindPilot]

2. It is very similar here.

In the late eighties, I had the unfortunate experience to be in "drug treatment" and that's exactly what it was--a psychiatric re-education facility. Believe in god, don't think for yourself, do what you're told and WE--not you--will decide what drugs you take.

[w4rma]

3. Very very bad. Easy to see this policy making a comeback there, though. nt

[hopein08]

4. My mom figures that this is what the US is doing at Gitmo...

her theory is to forget waterboarding & other physical torture, what is really happening down there is mind control in the form of psychiatric care.

She came up with this theory after seeing Monica Crowley on Imus Thurs. (?) when Crowley was talking about the Pentagon flying her down there to see the torture rooms with Laz-Y-Boy recliners and only one leg shackle & Crowley was listing all of the different psychiatric issues that the prisoners were being diagnosed with and treated for.

I admit I scoffed a bit, but it could be true.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Coming soon to a US Detention Center near you?

[Solly Mack]

6. $1.7 million psychiatric wing at GTMO

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/9/17919/08543


"The U.S. prison camp for terror suspects is taking on a look of permanence as the mission marks its third year Tuesday, with plans for a new $25 million prison facility, $1.7 million psychiatric wing and a permanent guard force."

I had the link to the story on Yahoo but the story was no longer available when I tried the link...so I went looking for another one


"Also planned are a $1.7 million psychiatric wing - there have been 34 reported suicide attempts since the prison opened - and a $4 million security fence that could reduce the need for some 300 infantry troops.

A full-time, 324-member Military Police Internment and Resettlement Battalion will also replace the temporary, mostly reserve force at Guantanamo. Some soldiers will have experience in prisons such as the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., or guarding prisoners of war, said Army Lt. Col. Kevin Burk, who will lead the 525 Brigade. Some soldiers already are being trained."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61154-2005Jan9_2.html

[H2O Man]

7. You might be interested

in reading a 1958 study by Princeton University's Gresham Sykes called "The Society of Captives." It noted that "centers of opposition in the inmate population -- in the form of men recognized as leaders by the other inmates -- can be neutralized through the use of solitary confinement or exile to other state institutions. Just as the Deep South served as a dumping-ground for particularly troublesome slaves before the Civil War, so too can the ...mental hospital serve as a dumping ground ...."

[DemReadingDU]

8. Dubna - that is scary, reminds me of Dubya

[SPKrazy]

9. And, It's Not In America????

Why, if someone takes a shot at the President, say Reagan, they must be INSANE, right?

See Hinkley, he's been in a mental hospital since he shot Reagan.

Oswald was described as a "lone nut", but then I don't believe that Oswald was alone on this.

If Jesus Christ had been locked in a mental hospital instead of crucified, there wouldn't a religion called Christianity- since it is based on the martyrdom and sacrifice of Jesus.

In America we have used psychiatry to control dissidents in different ways for years.

It will probably become worse now that we are losing our freedoms.