--- In thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com, mirah@d... wrote:
> etaonsh wrote:
>
> > There must be a lot of patients and former patients
> > (and prisoners, for that matter) disappointed to find no crock of
> > gold for their irrefutable, unredressed tribulations, and more
> > importantly, perhaps, no protection for future incumbents in the
same
> > situations as they arise (often unbelievable for those with no
inside
> > knowledge of the mental health system).
>
> Perhaps in that sense this case could be beneficial, by demonstrating
> that abuse is not incidental, but the very fabric of psychiatry. I
was
> able to understand some of the film, but my German isn't good enough
to
> judge whether the brief clip accomplished that.

Oh - I thought that you had earlier agreed that the sensationalisation
of a single incident had, by definition, made abuse
look 'incidental'(?).

Richard