{"id":268,"date":"2008-10-08T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-10-08T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:31:00","slug":"only-in-lapsychiatry-an-industry-of-death-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/10\/only-in-lapsychiatry-an-industry-of-death-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in LA&#8230;Psychiatry: an Industry of Death Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near such prominent Hollywood landmarks such as the ArcLight Theaters and Amoeba Records, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/psychiatry_an_industry_of_death_museum\/\">Psychiatry: an Industry of Death Museum<\/a> hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/\">The Citizens Commission on Human Rights<\/a>.&nbsp; If you are thinking, &#8220;this sounds like something from the Church of Scientology,&#8221; you&#8217;d be right.&nbsp; They make no effort to hide their connection to the Church on either the website or at the museum.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is basically a series of short videos explaining the evils of the psychiatric industry.&nbsp; There are also exhibits showing various pieces of equipment used in psychiatric institutions.&nbsp; A large focus is placed on connecting psychiatry to the holocaust, and the suicides\/overdoses of prominent figures in Hollywood\/the arts.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it feels a lot like propaganda.&nbsp; Taking events out of context, magnifying abuses, and using leaps of logic to get a specific point of view across.&nbsp; Are there valid points in the exhibit? Sure.&nbsp; But I feel they get lost in the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I do think, however, that we as a society (and by we I mean America) look for the easy way out too often.&nbsp; That we expect some pill to fix us, when the mind and self are much more complex than that.&nbsp; That the mental health industry is just as prone to greed and abuse, as many other industries.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Is psychiatry complete BS as the folks at the CCHR would have you believe.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think so.&nbsp; But I think there does need to be more of a balance in how we view and treat mental illness. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near such prominent Hollywood landmarks such as the ArcLight Theaters and Amoeba Records, is Psychiatry: an Industry of Death Museum hosted by The Citizens Commission on Human Rights.&nbsp; If you are thinking, &#8220;this sounds like something from the Church of Scientology,&#8221; you&#8217;d be right.&nbsp; They make no effort to hide their connection to the Church &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/10\/only-in-lapsychiatry-an-industry-of-death-museum\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81,257,258],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-global-world","tag-los-angeles","tag-museums","tag-psychiatry","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}