Psychiatric Covert Social Control

“The medical model is a metaphor. Namely it is the use of the language of physical illness to describe thoughts, feelings and behaviour. And there is a purpose in it. It is an ideology rather than a concept or theory; in the sense that ideologies promote interests and the ideology which is promoted by the medical model is the ideology of social control, so that — from my point of view — the only function of the medical model, the only function of medical diagnosis and the only function of medical psychiatry — which means coercive psychiatry — is social control. So I accuse psychiatry of not being a science, but being an ideology, which in cooperation with the state, serves the function of covert social control.”

— Ron Leifer, MD, in The Foucault Tribunal.

AUSTRALIA — The case of Rebecca Merhav:
When psychiatry becomes a tool for politcal revenge and persecution...

Dr. H. Anonymous Speaks — APA Annual Conference, 1972

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