Psychiatric Reprisals
Whistle-blowers who part ranks with a government agency or major corporation can expect to be depicted as unhinged; it's in the agency's best interests. For example, Russ Tice was punished with psychiatric evaluations that labeled him as "mentally unbalanced" after persisting in his investigations of potentially illegal spying activity at the NSA. As another example, an NYPD veteran who alleged falsified crime statistics in his department was forcibly committed to a mental institution.
Read more about this topic: Political Abuses Of Psychiatry
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“Indeed the involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)