(Most governments and treatment providers, Cohen argued, don’t want to publicly #expose “the #DarkHeart ” of our #MentalHealth system—that a #CoreFunction is to #incarcerate and #ControlMasses of people. “There’s nothing pleasant about that. There’s nothing beautiful and pretty. It’s just exclusion: ‘Please take them away from me.’ And because we’re saying we’re doing it to help them, there’s a kind of #systemic #dissonance .”)
https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-so-many-psychiatric-patients-forcibly-detained-and-treated