https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs...story,amp.html

Denne var bra, legger til noen utdrag som er gjennkjennelige.

The irony is that psychiatry has always been oppressive -- even in the allegedly enlightened West -- given its imperious mandate to judge, manipulate and medicate what it decrees as undesirable behavior, and its sacrosanct power to lock up those who violate its norms.

It rests on haughty assumptions: that doctors, the sole arbiters of what's appropriate or delusional, know more about patients' inner lives than the patients do themselves, and that, if therapy stalls, it's because of the customer's stubborn "resistance" to such higher wisdom

But something new and drastic has been happening: their combined weight has heaved the whole system over on its head. Lately, psychiatrists are less oppressors than oppressed, increasingly controlled by higher authorities that dictate whom they will treat, with what, how and for how long.

to have mental problems treated like medical ones by insurance companies -- has turned into a Sorcerer's Apprentice nightmare, with psychiatrists tormented by the very tools they once found so useful.

insists that pharmaceutical companies merely offer "disinterested but selective support,"

Is it time to feel sorry for shrinks?

Once it was psychiatry that trampled these things, stuffing people into Procrustean categories; now psychiatrists are being told their judgment is superfluous and their compassion, irrelevant.