Professional Documents
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Dr.I.C.CUCU,MD
a. Admission abuse
The first step in the political psychiatric abuse in the
placement constituted abuse. Admission abuse occurred
when dizidentul came into conflict with the communist
political system and when securistul call on a psychiatrist
to decide whether this behavior could be considered as
abnormally. Since this opinion was given the status
dizidentului change, it became a mentally ill who could
apply the measures as forced admission, electroshocs,
neuroleptics, contention measures.
Normally, cases were brought to a psychiatrist in several
ways:
1. Civil procedure with the placement direct "clean" to act
of disident which the psychiatrist it turn into a
phenomenon psihopatologic. In these situations could
occur following categories:
-- Dizidentul was given a deed, it was proved, arrested and
interned in the hospital and then undergo a psychiatric
expert to confirm "mental disease". For this security could
make a formal request, but most often brought to hospital
dizident was sufficient to the psychiatrist conformist who
understand to be done;
-- Dizidentul was claimed by neighbours, relatives and
even wife. It was called policy, dizident was led to the
ward where the officer exposed his opinion and the person
was carried to hospital against his will.;
-- Kidnappings on the street, at work or home without
arrest warrant. The person was carried psychiatric hospital
without explanation and without a medical consultation
beforehand.
2. Criminal procedure - when dizidentul was arrested for
an alleged common law deed and transferred to
psychiatric purposes "medical".
3. The procedure through which dizident was tried and
convicted for acts alleged to be common law, but
subsequently transferred from prison to hospital for
mental diseases.
f. abuse of electro-therapy
Dictatorships around the world have adopted this
technique for torturing thr disidents. Within electroshok
(ES) individual is put in a vital state of stress, a situation
that simulates the imminent threat to life.
g. Misuse of neuroleptice
All dizidenţii of our lot did not have the right to
choose the doctor who, in turn, does not have any duty to
decline and identity. Neither the patient nor the family had
no influence on the type of treatment applied. Usually, are
very strong medicines used (haldol, clorpromazina,
trifluoperazina, majeptilul) ..