Sentence examples for psychiatric abuse from inspiring English sources

This was the insight of radicals who championed the "mad" and denounced psychiatric abuse, with RD Laing the leading British crusader.

After spending nearly two decades working to improve psychiatric care in the United States, Dr. Visotsky shifted his focus to reports of psychiatric abuse abroad.

Snezhnevsky was long attacked in the West as an exemplar of psychiatric abuse in the USSR.

He was a member of a U.S. Department of State delegation in 1991 to examine issues of psychiatric abuse in the Soviet Union.

Citizens inconvenient to the authorities because of their "obdurate" complaints about bureaucratic excesses and abuses accounted for about five per cent of dissidents subject to psychiatric abuse.

In 1985, Peter Reddaway and Sidney Bloch in their book Soviet Psychiatric Abuse have provided documented data on some 500 cases.

As well as waging war on thetans, the church also does a lot of work battling "psychiatric abuses" and trying to encourage people not to take drugs.

Alarmed by the Falun Gong reports and by the evidence in Mr. Munro's article of a broader history of problems than many had realized, medical and rights groups abroad are starting a global campaign to condemn psychiatric abuses in China and to push for access to suspect hospitals by outside experts.

Mr. Xu's ordeal exemplifies far broader problems in China's psychiatric system: a gaping lack of legal protections against psychiatric abuses, shaky standards of medical ethics and poorly trained psychiatrists and hospital administrators who sometimes feel obliged to accept anyone — sane or not — who is escorted by a government official.

According to Russian psychiatrist Emmanuil Gushansky, the scale of psychiatric abuses in the past, the use of psychiatric doctrines by the totalitarian state are thoroughly concealed.

--Although repsychiatric psychiabusesabuses continue, the practice of treating political dissent as mental disorder may be coming to an end: All psychiatric hospitals previously supervised by the Interior Ministry are being transferred to the jurisdiction of the Health Ministry.