Old Hollywood
I found myself watching one of those old classic movies today, which was actually a while ago now, as this blog seems as if it wants to be Orwellian sometimes..., with
Betty Davis as the actress in the film and although the soap opera was
interesting, for some reason the movie started out with the
psychiatrist doctor as the ultimate figure, the end all to be all who
knows all and gets the final word on someone else's life to judge, and
the images of cigarettes were being smoked and displayed as being cool
throughout it. And as being anti psych cia tric and anti medical model,
it was interesting to see that even Old Hollywood films advertised and
promoted these stereotypes of family locking up family in sanitariums
and institutions such as the case today, the majority of people in
psychiatric hospitals are put their by their own family. I would hope
that one day forced psychiatric treatment could be abolished. Is
another world possible. And what does this have to do with a No Police
State?




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