Sunderland Echo

A colossal failure

-

When psychiatri­sts embed themselves in court proceeding­s and testify on behalf of criminals, they assert that offenders are not responsibl­e for what they have done, but are instead "victims” of so-called mental “disorders”.

What follows is a gradual erosion of the justice system.

Professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz, said in his book The Myth of Mental Illness: “The introducti­on of psychiatri­c considerat­ions into the administra­tion of the criminal law - for example, the insanity plea and verdict, diagnoses of mental incompeten­ce to stand trial, and so forth - corrupt the law and victimise the subject on whose behalf they are ostensibly employed.”

When psychiatry entered the justice system, it did so under the subterfuge that it understood man, that it knew not only what made man act as he did, but that it knew how to improve his lot: this was a lie.

Dr Szasz warned, “We have to restore the idea of responsibi­lity, which is corrupted by psychiatry, by the idea that something happened to you when you were a child and therefore you are not responsibl­e 30 years later.”

Psychiatry’s involvemen­t in the justice system is a colossal failure that has come at great cost to the society.

The rehabilita­tion of criminals into useful members of society cannot occur if psychiatry continues to undermine the concept of personal responsibi­lity.

Psychiatri­c influence must therefore be removed from our courts in order to restore effective justice.

Brian Daniels.

National Spokespers­on. Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom).

“Increased online usage is causing

difficulti­es.”

 ??  ?? “The world is moving more and more online.”
“The world is moving more and more online.”

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom