Peter Hitchens has some rather interesting things to say about psychiatry.
He has taken the debate to a whole new level. Thus far the mainstream media have focused on pharmaceutical industry. But they merely produce, they do not prescribe. This task is in the hands of psychiatrists. There is an understandable reluctance to criticize doctors. We have elevated them to the status of minor deities who, even when they do wrong, are acting as a result of the purest of intentions but this does not accord with contemporary and historical reality. The reason people wind up on pedestals is because other people put them there.
