rpcarnell wrote:
Anti Psychiatry WebsitePsychiatry has a good list of ups and downs. The bad things linked to it: electric shocks, lobotomies, terms like negrophilia (white people attracted to negros), thinking of masturbation as something deranged, seeing homosexuality as a disease, and believe it or not, if you are in a Catholic country, like Panama in my case, you may find psychiatrists that may have ideas that may seem ancient to someone in a first world country. Maybe not, but I wouldn't know for sure unless I visited a psychiatrist. I don't know how many rights someone here has to treat me against my will if I decided to stop visiting a shrink.
Medieval doctors used to bleed people with leeches to balance their four "humors".
Guess General Practitioners are evil, too.
You know, based on barbaric and crude s**t that happened in the very infancy of the field.
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For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay.