Why the violence by psychiatric hospital 'keepers'? Its roots in contemporary political and economic developments
Hospital violence is caused by the influence of police gangs working under the rubric of the 'primacy of policing' and spurred by the breakdown of the working life and smallholding.That is something which we have had to endure in Northern Ireland since the British pro-consul in the North,Roy Mason,launched his 'Ulsterisation' policy in 1977-78 . Blair's '1984' Kitson state is a continuation of British dictation to us all,Protestant and Catholic alike.The policy of criminalisation was replaced by the policy of stigmatisation because of the decline in IRA attrition in 1984-5. That decline was temporary only,as the IRA caught its second breath and took its second pressure on the trigger. Germany is a country with an enduring crisis of authority,too,and the psychiatric contagion has spread to France. Modern societies are mired in a profound crisis of capital flight,deindustrialization and deskilling,a process of economic dotage that became apparent in Britain ...