Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.
I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
Of all the tyrannies of humankind, the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.
I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
