When giving testimony in court, it’s common to find defence and prosecution psychiatrists in conflict about the mental status of the person in question. Unlike medical doctors, they often come to differing conclusions, exemplifying the opinion-fuelled, unscientific structure of psychiatric testimonies.
Two tragic cases demonstrate this conflict. It has been reported that two consultant psychiatrists can’t agree over the mental state of Lukasz Czapla who admitted to killing his two-year-old son in Edinburgh. It has also been reported that two psychiatrists will give different accounts of their assessment of Pietro Addis who stabbed his grandmother to death in Brighton.
It has been reported that Addis has admitted manslaughter but denies murder due to diminished responsibility. It has been reported that Czapla offered to plead guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide. Both of those pleas demonstrate a regular pattern in courts where psychiatrists assert that offenders are not responsible for what they have done, but are instead ‘victims’ of fictitious mental disorders.
Psychiatrists have embedded themselves in court proceedings, advising and encouraging the lesser plea of manslaughter or culpable homicide in an effort to get an insanity plea, where any consequent sentence is reduced, or even dismissed. They sell themselves for a sizeable profit to the point where the pursuit of “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” has given way to reams of meaningless data, fearful elaborate speculation and fantastic conjecture.
In his book The Myth of Mental Illness, Professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz says: “The introduction of psychiatric considerations into the administration of the criminal law – for example, the insanity plea and verdict, diagnoses of mental incompetence to stand trial, and so forth – corrupt the law and victimise the subject on whose behalf they are ostensibly employed.”
When psychiatry entered the justice system, it did so under the subterfuge that it understood man, that it knew not only what made man act as he did, but that it knew how to improve his lot. This was a lie.
Dr Szasz warned: “We have to restore the idea of responsibility, which is corrupted by psychiatry, by the idea that something happened to you when you were a child and therefore you are not responsible 30 years later.”
It is up to the many conscientious, hardworking and increasingly disheartened people within the system to realise it is being corrupted and to rid it of these destructive psychiatric intruders.
Further reading: Eroding Justice – Psychiatry’s Corruption of Law
