Psychiatry and Human Rights Abuse (2009)

Psychiatry represents one of the major abuses of human rights in the modern world with hundreds of thousands imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals. The World Health Organisation peddles transparent lies and myths about the mental imbalance of millions of people while doctors profit richly from this cult. Legal remedies are too late to deal with arbitrary injustice and many of the victims of the police, clergy and judges take their own lives.

I will begin with my own personal account. I was infected with tapeworms by a family pet when I was seventeen and suffered fits and convulsions which were diagnosed as schizophrenia when I was long past ‘the biochemical switch-on’ age at twenty-five years of age. I had graduated in law after an early involvement in politics. Constant complaints of rectal itching in the area of the colon, cramp, vomiting stomach upset, rashes, coughing, fever, diarrhoea, cysts, weight loss and constipation firstly to doctors tht Queen’s University medical service and to doctors in Enniskillen and Lisnaskea should have led to effective treatment. In the event, it was thirty-two years after the infection that the parasitic infection was accepted by doctors. They carefully investigated any political views and refused to treat me on political grounds.

I was often confined in psychiatric hospital for four and a half years, to be precise, while worthless investigations failed to reveal proof of tapeworms. The psychiatric nurses form a secure vested interest. Their attitude is one of malevolence; their behaviour is one of obstruction and their training leads them to wilful ignorance. In total, they are socio-paths who are in denial about the number of the misdiagnosed and hopeless who succumb to suicide after their stay in a psychiatric hospital…psychiatry accelerates death.

Looked at from a legal perspective, rights to a private and family life are violated by the doctors, administrators, social workers and nurses. There is interference in the family nexus, relatives become estranged. The Offences Against the Person Act 1848 which protects the physical integrity of the person is freely violated. Recidivism is the origin of a slothful, self-seeking, navel-gazing sub-class of mendicants who often enter hospital to escape criminal justice.

The administrators oat the behest of psychiatrists transfer medical records across frontiers leading to a pandemic of medical hysteria and slander in faraway places.

The media are poisoned pens in this scenario and refuse to publish accounts of psychiatric detention. They share the class interests of the doctors and have the same sadistic views on punishment of political dissidents. They share and promote the prevailing prejudices of the medical elite and the wider middle class.

One of the chief sources of criminal practices in medicine is the police force. Their targeting of the politically discontented is assisted by the medical elite. Mental exhaustion is often the outcome of extra-judicial measures such as constant surveillance, sleep deprivation and psychological warfare which is practised in the trouble-spots of the developed world. One is reminded of the Book of Jude railing against ‘these men [who] speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals – these are the very things that destroy them’, when one thinks of doctors, administrators, social workers, nurses and police. In the north of Ireland and in Germany, a police state has grown up in the midst of political and economic crises.

In their relations and contacts with their patients the doctors pretend to superior intellect and judgement as a pretext for their moral depravity. They search for ‘insight’ or guilt in their patients. Their first precept is that truth is absolute and that they possess the gift of telling the truth when confronted with normal aggression as a reaction to stress and coercive detention. Their second presumption, it follows, is that they can read minds. They expect their patients to accept violence, unjust and unlawful acts which are against the patients interests. Their third precept is that they must correct deviant behaviour i.e. brainwashing.

Asserting legal rights against slanderers, criminal psychopaths and murderers is a lengthy process in Britain and Ireland. The process takes seven to ten years under normal juridical conditions. Asserting legal rights is a nerve-wracking procedure which is, in itself, sufficient to cause suicide but it is the sole option in conditions of confinement.

The history of psychiatry as a real phenomenon does no reach back further than the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century Da Silva, a Portuguese crank and psychopath, gained a Nobel laureate for carving out parts of the brains of patients – a frontal lobotomy. In 1924 Bleuler, an Austrian, erected ‘Schizophrenia’ from the psychological manifestations of syphilis. In 1945, Carl Jung invented psychotherapy to keep the show on the road when Allied soldiers had found evidence of mass murder in German psychiatric hospitals. Jung added cold grist to the medical mill of repression and violence.

In the North of Ireland, psychiatry is the last refuse of rogues and scoundrels of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, a clientelist party of the Catholic Church.

In Germany, the presence of mercury as a metal and in vaporised form in the large metal-working industry gave rise to German psychiatry. Mercury in metal-working is the source of the madness of the Germans.

As a social class, the doctors represent a dangerous clique who offer one another mutual support. They cover up one another’s crimes, mal-practices, and negligence. The world medical association laid down statutes in 1948 which obliged doctors to regard one another as ‘brothers’. There is powerful support from the Catholic Church for the cult of medicine as laid down in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, ‘let him who does not fear God, come before a doctor’.

To conclude, the medical elite demonstrate a pathological form of insanity in most of their dealings and are more interested in their luxurious houses, cars and holidays than in their patients. They are motivated by professional self-interest. Any reform of psychiatry must reduce the copious apparatus of hospitals and ‘beds’ to a tiny proportion of what it has grown to. Law reform is required to offer a speedy remedy to the patient from an impartial tribunal of trade unionists, lawyers and ex-inmates of the asylum. A Medical Audit Commission must be formed under law with powers of arrest and detention of doctors prior to trial.