by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Institutionalizing battered women in psychiatric hospitals is as old as prostitution. It’s an effective way to silence and discredit them.

In My Own Practice

I remember a case over 20 years ago in my own practice of a patient referred by a social worker for a stress-related neuromuscular disorder. The referring social worker informed me that the young man’s birth mother was a schizophrenic who had been institutionalized when he was around five years old.

For full article, visit: Family Court Violence – When Psychiatry and Law Serve as the Batterer’s Club

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