tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917769177161571292.post6099629810184343742..comments2013-10-07T18:11:46.498-07:00Comments on Misandry Away: Loving mother who didn't understand what she was doingGR Kleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406642430394190531noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917769177161571292.post-16500680557533449282008-02-20T05:04:00.000-08:002008-02-20T05:04:00.000-08:00Furthermore, I might also add that if we accept t...Furthermore, I might also add that if <BR/>we accept that she was having a psychotic episode while she was engaged in the process of murdering her daughter, and is thus innocent we might have to review every murder conviction ever made.<BR/><BR/>Because I grant you that in a large percentage of them the people who were declared guilty of murder were in fact in psychotic states when this occurred and thus should aslo perhaps be declared innocent? <BR/><BR/>Absurd you say, but when up to 70% of all men in prison have a mental illness should we not then say they should also be declared innocent because of their disability....what say you to that...?GR Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406642430394190531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917769177161571292.post-86362827403716872462008-02-20T04:49:00.000-08:002008-02-20T04:49:00.000-08:00Thanks anonymous I think you make some interesting...Thanks anonymous I think you make some interesting points.<BR/><BR/>Yes I do believe that it is possible for people both men and women to suffer from psychotic episodes. <BR/><BR/>I have had several years experience working in the mental health system, I have a bachelors degree in psychology and I am very familiar with the poisonous pedogogy that is psychiatry. <BR/><BR/>I am a big fan of Thomas Szasz and RD Laing who both offer in depth critiques of the discipline that is psychiatry. While Michel Foucault, has also produced some great work that challenges the validity of psychiatry. Peter Breggin has a great book called Toxic Psychiatry which is a great treatise on the flawed methodology of this field. <BR/><BR/>Having said that I agree that some of my comments could be percieved as judgemental and I accept that criticism. <BR/><BR/>My main aim in including this article was to demonstrate, as many other astute writers have done before, that all are not equal in the face of the law - ie black people, poor people and men and women.<BR/><BR/>The women who committed this terrible crime was from a priveleged position in society, an elite professional (psychiatrist), presumeably well off financially and able hire excellent legal representation. <BR/><BR/>And I stand by my earlier observation that in the article about this crime there was no mention of the suffering of the victim only the suffering of the perpetrator.GR Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406642430394190531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917769177161571292.post-83054506555438984522008-02-19T05:46:00.000-08:002008-02-19T05:46:00.000-08:00Seeing as you are in Australia, you clearly know l...Seeing as you are in Australia, you clearly know little about this case. Perhaps you are right about women being given an easier time by the courts - but this should not lead you to become paranoid and illogical. Do you think it is impossible for women to suffer a psychotic episode? Is it possible for me and not for women? Do you have no sympathy, understanding or knowledge about mental illness? Why the absolute disregard for the notion that this person (person - not woman) was extremely mentally unwell?<BR/>I was unsure of what had happened here, as at the end of the day, a mother has killed her child, which is probably the worst thing a person could do.<BR/>But after being in this court hearing for two days, I came to the conclusion that this woman was severely psychotically depressed, which led to this psychotic episode, which, granted, is an extreme example of a psychotic episide, but it DOES HAPPEN. <BR/>You should not be so judgemental - it could happen to you in the future.<BR/>Four psychiatrists, including the head psychiatrist of Ireland's leading psychiatric hospital, the Central mental Hospital, independently came to the conclusion that this person was very unwell and as a result, she became only the second person in the history of the state to be given the verdict: Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity.<BR/>Educate yourself.<BR/>Your ignorant comments take away from any valid points you may have to make.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com