>I cannot grasp how psychiatry has achieved this level of respect and authority in our society.
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>It is at best pseudo-science and at worst torture.
In regards to the temptation to exploit the pseudo-science of psychiatry as a social control tool, the Western governments (control the mind) have far eclipsed the former Bolshevic Union.
Applied more covertly than the Bolshevics, the threat of being LABELLED with a psychiatric diagnosis now exceeds the threat posed by being labeled with a group think label by a media minion regressive!