The ad hominem attack of mental illness accusations used to quell or impeach a political dissident. In extreme cases it leads to the medically unnecessary comital of the dissident to a mental institution and/or the forcing of the dissident to take pacifying or punitive medication.
It is a particularly effective method for totalitarian regimes as they can shield the public from viewing evidence supporting the claims of the dissident. It is also effective when the dissident has inherently eccentric behavior that can be magnified by the frustrations of dealing with the government's accusations.
With freedom of the press and the internet it is becoming an increasingly rare tactic.
The best defense is to communicate through an attorney, remain calm at all times, and amass as much evidence as possible before raising further dissent.
It is a particularly effective method for totalitarian regimes as they can shield the public from viewing evidence supporting the claims of the dissident. It is also effective when the dissident has inherently eccentric behavior that can be magnified by the frustrations of dealing with the government's accusations.
With freedom of the press and the internet it is becoming an increasingly rare tactic.
The best defense is to communicate through an attorney, remain calm at all times, and amass as much evidence as possible before raising further dissent.
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Doctor Johnson is engaged in political psychiatry to keep a lid on the mayor's corruption. The mayor paid Johnson to say Mr. Smith is crazy so the press would stop giving him interviews.
Doctor Johnson is engaged in political psychiatry to keep a lid on the mayor's corruption. The mayor paid Johnson to say Mr. Smith is crazy so the press would stop giving him interviews.
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"You should buy Psychonauts, its the best game ever made and its really original!"
"Yeah but then I won't have enough money to buy some generic world war 2 game"
"Yeah but then I won't have enough money to buy some generic world war 2 game"
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One who travels through the physical plane of existence into the spiritual plane of existence through the unadulterated use of Dimethyltryptamine, in order to explore and discover the truth behind life, human existence and the meaning there of, recording the events into precise documentation so as to expand the consciousness of the human mind.
Through the use of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, Mr. Smith traveled to alternate planes of existence as a psychonaut, contacting intelligent life in order to be enlightened with the truth of his existence.
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That's all there is too it.
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by Human123 January 21, 2011
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If a patient tells his doctor the medicine isn't working, it is increased (along with it's unpleasant painful side effects) until the patient sings the medicine's praises out of the fear of death and suicide caused by and wholly related to the medicine. Indirect death threats is how psychiatrist subdue, intimidate people. (a listed side-effect of anti-psychotic medication, Haldol, is death.) Sure lots of patients die of related strokes, murders, suicides, and side-effects, but these expendable people are acceptable losses in the war for psychiatry. Psychs deliberately anger patients, who then stressfully suppress their rage making them seem ill. Unlike prison sentences, psych treatments are administered indefinately to cause fears and anger in the patients; causing episodes that get used to justify psychiatry and boost stock revenues. The goal of psychiatry is to cause worry, anger and confusion and treat. The med related deaths serve to help the psych mob intimidate and make their patients seem so sick they have to take life-threatening medicine by force to treat imbalances cause by genes they 'might' have. This is a form of racism, but is called 'scientific progress' by freedom hating psychs. Psychiatry Psucks, but don't worry about it, lest. . .
If a patient tells his doctor the medicine isn't working, it is increased (along with it's unpleasant painful side effects) until the patient sings the medicine's praises out of the fear of death and suicide caused by and wholly related to the medicine. Indirect death threats is how psychiatrist subdue, intimidate people. (a listed side-effect of anti-psychotic medication, Haldol, is death.) Sure lots of patients die of related strokes, murders, suicides, and side-effects, but these expendable people are acceptable losses in the war for psychiatry. Psychs deliberately anger patients, who then stressfully suppress their rage making them seem ill. Unlike prison sentences, psych treatments are administered indefinately to cause fears and anger in the patients; causing episodes that get used to justify psychiatry and boost stock revenues. The goal of psychiatry is to cause worry, anger and confusion and treat. The med related deaths serve to help the psych mob intimidate and make their patients seem so sick they have to take life-threatening medicine by force to treat imbalances cause by genes they 'might' have. This is a form of racism, but is called 'scientific progress' by freedom hating psychs. Psychiatry Psucks, but don't worry about it, lest. . .
"Psychiatrists secretly plan to chemically brainwash religious people out of the chosen beliefs by force because psychiatrist hate freedom of religion and ignorant tax-payers fund their evil bullshit"
"Racketeering in Psychiatry has threatened and killed more people than the mafia because the 'rare' chance of death in their medicine is somewhat random and concealed by patient confidentiality and spread out thinly among tens of millions of patients."
"Tom avoided Gary because Tom wanted to stay out of Gary's highly secretive psychiatric cult group that met behind locked doors where somepeople couldn't get out and were forcibly drugged."
"Racketeering in Psychiatry has threatened and killed more people than the mafia because the 'rare' chance of death in their medicine is somewhat random and concealed by patient confidentiality and spread out thinly among tens of millions of patients."
"Tom avoided Gary because Tom wanted to stay out of Gary's highly secretive psychiatric cult group that met behind locked doors where somepeople couldn't get out and were forcibly drugged."
by BeenThereDoneThat24356364 December 5, 2011
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