Taltarzac725
04-09-2012, 11:44 AM
I am sure many avid readers and movie goers have noticed the many books and movies which portray someone in power abusing this might by using psychiatry/psychology as a weapon rather than something that should be used to heal. The 2nd and 3rd movies/books in the Swedish The Girl with Dragon Tattoo series come to mind.
I am not sure how many factual links though I can get on this interesting issue. I can think of a number of movies that are based on these such incidents.
Changeling is one of these. This is about Christine Collins and her attempt to find her kidnapped son. Behind 'Changeling,' A Tale Too Strange For Fiction : NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95935010)
Vincere is about Italian Dictator Mussolini and his control and then abuse-- by using psychiatry as a weapon-- of his first wife. Good and Bad Psychiatry in Film - Review of Marco Bellocchio's Vincere | Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spiritual-wisdom-secular-times/201107/good-and-bad-psychiatry-in-film-review-marco-bellocchios-) Vincere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincere)
These links do go into some of these incidents here in the US-- Psychiatry Used as a Weapon « Battlefield America (http://battlefieldamerica.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/psychiatry-used-as-a-weapon/) Mental Illness as a Political Weapon « Psychiatric News (http://psychiatricnews.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/mental-illness-as-a-political-weapon/) Black Men and Schizophrenia: What's the Deal? (http://www.theroot.com/views/schizophrenia-political-weapon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
Abroad-- http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic/4565c22532/4565c25f3f5.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Initiative_on_Psychiatry
I am not sure how many factual links though I can get on this interesting issue. I can think of a number of movies that are based on these such incidents.
Changeling is one of these. This is about Christine Collins and her attempt to find her kidnapped son. Behind 'Changeling,' A Tale Too Strange For Fiction : NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95935010)
Vincere is about Italian Dictator Mussolini and his control and then abuse-- by using psychiatry as a weapon-- of his first wife. Good and Bad Psychiatry in Film - Review of Marco Bellocchio's Vincere | Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spiritual-wisdom-secular-times/201107/good-and-bad-psychiatry-in-film-review-marco-bellocchios-) Vincere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincere)
These links do go into some of these incidents here in the US-- Psychiatry Used as a Weapon « Battlefield America (http://battlefieldamerica.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/psychiatry-used-as-a-weapon/) Mental Illness as a Political Weapon « Psychiatric News (http://psychiatricnews.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/mental-illness-as-a-political-weapon/) Black Men and Schizophrenia: What's the Deal? (http://www.theroot.com/views/schizophrenia-political-weapon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
Abroad-- http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic/4565c22532/4565c25f3f5.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Initiative_on_Psychiatry