Review of Psychiatry: An Industry of Death (2006) by Mikhail B — 22 Jul 2012

A very credible account of the uneasy history of curing mental illnesses that, according to the author of this documentary, has been showing incredibly little progress in the last two centuries. The accurate facts are very finely rigged in order to convince the audience that psychiatry has to date been nothing more than a perverted vehicle of torture, political suppression and drug-dealing.

I have to say, I've been partly convinced by the film's arguments in the sense that very little is known about human psyche and the huge healthcare budgets are currently dumped to a virtually hopeless business of turning the country's population into a bunch of sedative drug addicts.

The problem with this film is that it is in turn financed by scientologists, who themselves are trying to hook thy neighbour onto a different, but just as addictive a drug of cult discipline. Excellent film, except for its financiers.