This is Your Brain on Trial
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Mental Turbulence and the Asylum
In the last third of the nineteenth century, psychiatrists promised they'd cure 70 or 80% of mental patients. In reality, their cure rates seem to be about 20 or 30%. The mentally are biologically different. They're defective. No longer have any reason they can't be treated as human beings. And ultimately, for example, in california, where i live, to a programme of involuntarily sterilizing mental patients so they can’t reproduce and add to their numbers. Then later in narse germany, first to the adoption of compulsory sterilization, modelled explicitly on the california law,. then to what's called the t four programme, where hitler
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