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> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released Penitentiary system is overbu
by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released
Penitentiary system is overburdened and has no interest in keeping people around once they're safe enough to be released.
Makes equal amount of sense to me.
In USSR, punitive psychiatry was the tool of choice for the government in the times of wide international information dissemination.
I don't mean to ridicule the American struggle for fixing community policing - I understand that defunding and disbanding the police comes out of a desperate situation, and I admire this kind of courage for radical changes. But it's a mistake to think that one step is a complete solution.
- varjag 6y agoIn USSR, booking you into the ward for political reasons did involve an arrest and a trial.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoI’m curious if you have any citations. (I’m reading The Gulag Archipelago, and I haven’t gotten far enough yet to find out the exact procedures that were used for dealing with political dissidents via mental health charges.)
- varjag 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union#Examination_and_hospitalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...