Losing your rights: complications of misdiagnosis.
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Violation of civil rights, forced treatment, and commitment under the guise of psychiatric care occurred in two cases involving women who became “patients” in nonmedical situations in different states. They were both violently victimized and at some point in their cases acted on their own behalf. One case will be described herein. In both cases the victims were denounced in court as malingerers after a misdiagnosis of psychosis and dangerousness was used to justify police action, incarceration, restraint, and forced injections of psychotropic drugs to incapacitate these women. In addition, my role as a forensic psychiatrist and expert witness in each of these cases was markedly handicapped by the court’s prosecutorial favoritism and prejudicial attitude against such “mentally ill” persons. The specific effect of the many injustices in these two very similar cases was to negate the freedom of these women and the overall effect was to discredit psychiatry while justifying the powers of courts and police. The current level of antipsychiatric bias and the role of a psychiatrist in the legal system is shown to be as great as ever.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
دوره 34 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006