...- In the 1970s, Martha Beall Mitchell, wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, was diagnosed with a paranoid mental disorder for claiming that the administration of President Richard M. Nixon was engaged in illegal activities. Many of her claims were later proved correct, and the term Martha Mitchell effect was coined to describe mental health misdiagnoses when accurate claims are dismissed as delusional. - In 1972 Thomas Eagleton was forced to withdraw as a vice presidential candidate for being treated for depression.[44] - In 2006, Canadian psychiatrist Colin A. Rosss book was published, titled The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists.[45] The book presents evidence based on 15,000 pages of documents received from the CIA via the Freedom of Information Act that there have been systematic, pervasive violations of human rights by American psychiatrists during the recent 65 years.[45]... more- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry#United_States
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