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Schalk's Definition of Psychiatric Abuse

Schalk uses the term psychiatric abuse as an umbrella term for the violence practices within the psychiatric industrial complex. This includes but is not limited to forced pharmaceutical treatment, psychosurgery, use of electroshock therapy, prolonged restraint or confinement, coercion, unpaid labor, and denial of access to food or human contact. Psychiatric abuse is more likely to be targeted at marginalized peoples especially those with diagnosed or assumed mental disabilities.

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Updated 2024-01-06

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