religion

Okay, I shall now reveal the reason I wasn’t able to do This Week in Mentalists yesterday (I’ll do it later today).

The reason is that I was at the Operation Party Hard protests in London against the Church of Scientology.

I think criticism of psychiatry is perfectly valid, except when it comes from the Church of Scientology. They have a museum entitled Psychiatry - An Industry of Death, which among other things accuses psychiatry of being responsible for the Holocaust. The CoS also has questions to answer about the deaths of Lisa McPherson a mentally ill woman who died under the care of the Church of Scientology, and of Elli Perkins who was killed by her schizophrenic son after Scientologists treated him with vitamins instead of antipsychotics.

I have pictures of the protests. Lots and lots of pictures. Since we’ve been having bandwidth problems on this site, I’ve created a separate blog over here. Go take a peek at what I was up to.

Just my own take on a story that is now being circulated on certain medical blogs.

A Times columnist has made an extraordinary allegation. Allegedly Muslim GPs and psychiatrists are colluding to get Muslim women sectioned so their husbands can divorce them. According to the columnist’s informant:

The women are sent for asssessment to a hospital. The GP referring them is Muslim. The psychiatrist assessing them is Muslim and male. I have sat in these assessments where the psychiatrist will not look the woman patient in the eye because she is a woman. Can you imagine! A psychiatrist refusing to look his patient in the eye? The woman speaks little or no English. She is sectioned. She is divorced. There are lots of these women in there, locked up in these hospitals.

I may look foolish in a few days by saying this, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say I think this is story is a load of old bollocks. Just another far-right scare story. The sort of thing that belongs on a BNP blog, not in one of the “quality” newspapers. Here’s why:
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