When tinfoil hats aren't enough-- psychiatry/psychology as a sword.
 

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


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 Vincere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


These links do go into some of these incidents here in the US-- Psychiatry Used as a Weapon « Battlefield America Mental Illness as a Political Weapon « Psychiatric News Black Men and Schizophrenia: What's the Deal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic..._of_psychiatry

Abroad-- http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic/...65c25f3f5.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_..._on_Psychiatry