The members of the KGB were part of the Soviet system too. And so were psychiatrists.

[fish...@aol.com]

Nothing is as black and white as it used to be, remarks Van Voren. The
members of the KGB were part of the Soviet system too. And so were
psychiatrists. 'To what extent can you blame psychiatrists for what
they did?' he asks. 'The real core of the dissident movement, they
were difficult people, quite straightforward, with a clear opinion, who
felt absolutely no need to conform to the majority. When they started
saying all kinds of things out loud, that the party was no good and
that there was no democracy in the Soviet Union, putting their jobs at
stake that way and spoiling the life of their family, well, then you
just had to be crazy?' For Van Voren it is not a question, but a
conclusion. 'The bulk of the psychiatrists cannot be blamed for what
they did. Their perception of the environment was disturbed.' And
what should be done then? Take psychiatrists to court? The judges were
just as wrong. 'The whole society was queer and perverse.' So queer
and perverse that in Ukraine even those who were once locked up in a
psychiatric institution for political reasons, still live their lives
as branded people: 'disturbed'.

But there are small changes. In the Soviet Union it used to be a
forbidden topic, but nowadays Van Voren every now and then hears
somebody say that his child is disabled, or that his father has
Alzheimer's. At the request of the Geneva Initiative, an artist from
The Hague painted the walls of an institution in Ukraine. The children
in their 'abattoirs with bilious green tiles' could choose an
animal to be painted on the wall. It was hard to convince the staff
that the children had to help with the painting; after all, they were
insane. But it worked. 'Now the whole atmosphere has changed. It is a
flower opening up.'

[Crozo]

Do you realize yet that Scientology is never going to replace
psychiatry? Just a thought.

[zeeorger]

fish...@aol.com wrote:
> Nothing is as black and white as it used to be, ...

Yup, "with love from Russia", fish for brains cult moron ...

http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/russia/cac03.htm

Russia is waking up to the fact that it is under atack from
dangerous cults ... and it is the orthodox church leaders
doing it.

Z

"I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against
every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson