mental illness and the state

How would you like for a politician to decide whether or not you are mentally fit?:

Political control through psychiatry

13 August 2002, China holds rebels in Soviet-style asylums, Times Online - "Those held in mental asylums include Falun Gong members, independent labour organisers, whistleblowers and individuals who complain about political persecution or official misconduct."
12 August 2002 - China's use of 'political' psychiatry grows, Financial Times

In its 298-page report, Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era , Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, a Netherlands-based international foundation, analyse the sentencing of political dissidents on the basis of false diagnoses.

Some say "mental" illness is a myth:

Dr. Thomas Szasz

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