Institutional psychiatry, science, laws or truths provide a ritualistic affirmation for society's dominant ethic. This serves to control and align a populous to the dominant ethic...and if necessary sedate/tranquilize. Even when that ethic is immoral and clearly evil.
Politicized American 'psychiatry' and 'science' when it becomes overtly political seeks to destroy or invalidate individuals who do not share the psychiatric or scientific establishment's views.
He who is deemed mentally ill is the individual who has not compromised his individuality for the sake of functionality in that institutionalized society. Therefore, he is considered deviant even if he is normal and the society itself is abnormal. FDRs and LBJs 'lunatic fringe'.
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