XPost: soc.culture.african.american, soc.culture.british, sci.psychology   
   XPost: alt.psychology   
   From: none@none.none   
      
   "Element 115" wrote:   
   >   
   >Pat wrote...   
   >> Check out the listing for Psychiatry: Creating Racism   
   >>   
   >> It goes alot deeper than just "mis-diagnosing".   
   >>   
   >> From the Documentation:   
   >>   
   >> In Britain, black men are 10 times more likely than white men to be   
   >> diagnosed as "schizophrenic," and more likely to be prescribed and   
   >> given higher doses of powerful psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs.   
   >>   
   >> They are also more likely to receive electroshock treatment (over 400   
   >> volts of electricity sent searing through the brain to control   
   >> or alter a person’s behavior) and to be subjected to physical and   
   >> chemical restraints.   
   >   
   >I understand that while the UK has an oppressive "free" national health   
   >care system, it also allows its more important wealthier citizens the   
   >right to pay private practitioners for treatment outside the government   
   >system.  I assume that like in the USA a disproportionate number of black   
   >people are poor (and consider all the African refugees in Britain), so   
   >they naturally would receive psychiatric "treatment" through the NHS.  Do   
   >the statistics above break down black/white diagnoses in both public and   
   >private hospitals?  Are wealthier black Britons more likely to be   
   >diagnosed as mentally ill by private psychiatrists?   
      
   Here again, more stories about the wealthy slime who is so-called "more   
   important". The poor are the more important.   
      
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