Psychiatry is a destructive discipline which utilizes dark ages interventions which harm patients. The University of Waterloo reported, restraint and confinement remain an everyday practice in mental health settings. According to a new study at the University of Waterloo providers of mental health services still depend on intervention techniques such as physical restraint and confinement to control psychiatric hospital patients.
The practice of using restraint and confinement can cause serious harm to patients. In this study it was found that about one in four psychiatric patients in hospitals in Ontario, Canada are restrained using control interventions, such as wrist restraints, chairs that prevent rising, seclusion rooms or acute control drugs. Professor John Hirdes, of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Waterloo and senior author on the paper, said the most recent findings show that the use of restraints and medications as control interventions are still a daily practice in inpatient mental health units.
Tina Mah, the lead author and vice president of planning, performance management and research at Grand River Hospital, has said that control interventions are not a very good idea because they counter a patient centered approach to patient care. This can harm therapeutic relationships while also further stigmatizing the patients. Mah says that healthcare providers should pursue more patient centered approaches to the provision of services for mental health.
This study has been published in the journal Healthcare Management Forum. It is apparent that the provision of mental health care in psychiatric settings is as ignorant and destructive as it was hundreds of years ago. The use of restraint and confinement are used as part of what the psychiatrists insist is state of the art mental health care treatment in this era.
Clearly as the Citizens Commission on Human Rights has pointed out psychiatry is and always has been an Industry of Death which should be permanently abolished. Instead our lawmakers and judges worldwide have legalized the tyranny of the psychiatrists who are a disgrace to the entire medical profession. Humane natural non-psychiatric interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental illness should instead be encouraged.
