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Toward a psychiatric gulag.
Thirty-two years ago, amid threats and intimidation from militant homosexual pressure groups, the American Psychiatric Association delisted homosexuality as a "diagnosable behavioral disorder." At about the same time, the spurious term "homophobia" began to circulate within the ranks of the left, eventually migrating into mainstream public discourse. That expression, we are told, refers to an irrational fear of, or hatred for, homosexuals. The purpose of coining that term was to lay the predicate for pathologizing, and eventually criminalizing, a negative view of homosexuality, as well as other politically incorrect attitudes.
The December 11 Seattle Times offered a valuable update on that process, which has been underway for more than a generation. "Mental-health practitioners say they regularly confront extreme forms of racism, homophobia and other prejudice in the course of therapy, and some patients are disabled by these beliefs," reports the paper. "As doctors increasingly weigh the effects of race and culture on mental illness, some are asking whether pathological bias ought to be an official psychiatric diagnosis. Advocates have circulated draft guidelines and have begun to conduct systematic studies. While the proposal is gaining traction, it is still in the early stages of being considered by the professionals who decide on new diagnoses."
Those "guidelines," which are being developed ...
- Tales of the Chinese psychiatric gulag.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The New American December 12, 2005 700+ words
...Wang in Germany, predictably, found him to be entirely sane and remarkably well-adjusted for a veteran of Beijing's psychiatric gulag. "I am absolutely fine and sane," Wang told the London Telegraph. "Even when I was arrested, I knew they were doomed...
- 'Pathological bias' under consideration for DSM-V.(Practice Trends)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Finn, Robert September 15, 2004 700+ words
...inclusion in DSM-V under the rubric "pathological bias," Dr. Carl C. Bell said at the...Association. In addition to racism, pathological bias might include sexism and heterosexism...The decision on whether to include pathological bias in DSM-V, and, if so, in what...
- Troubled waters. (infighting in Soviet politics)
- Magazine article from: National Review Crozier, Brian August 28, 1987 700+ words
...minor power station; under Brezhnev, would still bear traces of the needles used to inject mind-bending drugs in the psychiatric Gulag devised by Brezhnev's successor, Yuri Andropov, while the latter was head of the KGB. To provide a relevant Western...
- The "new European Soviet".(Mikhail Gorbachev )(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The New American May 1, 2006 700+ words
...university." Bukovsky spent more than a dozen years imprisoned for "anti-Soviet" activities; that figure includes a term as an inmate in the II psihuska, the notorious psychiatric gulag, where he underwent various forms of torture.
- Punishing hate crimes: the next phase.(Insider Report)
- Magazine article from: The New American May 3, 2004 700+ words
...means to deal with those deemed "socially dangerous": Thought criminals of that sort were consigned to the psihuska, or psychiatric gulag, where they were given psychotropic drugs. Those whose brains could not be "kick-started" often underwent lobotomies...
- Neglect Between but Not Within Auditory Objects.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Cusack, Rhodri Carlyon, Robert P. Robertson, Ian H. November 1, 2000 700+ words
...contralesional side when there is an ipsilesional stimulus competing for attention. This is thought to be the result of a pathological bias in attention towards the ipsilesional side. Recently, it has been shown that the extinction of a contralesional stimulus...
- Psychiatry's valid but dishonest reconsiderations.(Psychology)(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Vatz, Richard E. Schaler, Jeffrey A. March 1, 2008 700+ words
...need to get used to the fact that the whole manual reflects social context....That is tree of depression on down. Pathological bias is no more or less scientific than major depression." Serious psychiatrists intuitively recoil from the worst fatuities...
- Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The English Historical Review Thornton, Tim June 1, 2003 700+ words
...sampled, though very extensive, is selective in a way which makes the problems the author discerns, in particular its pathological bias, almost inevitable. The profusion of material in the court records of the city of Chester, of the bishop of Chester...
Source: HighBeam Research, Toward a psychiatric gulag.