Szasz criticizes the Western press for its hypocritical indignation over the misuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union to put "dissidents" in psychiatric incarceration. Szasz considers involuntary psychiatric interventions to be crimes against humanity, a crime that occurs as much in the Western world as it does in Russia, and characterizes these abuses as "characteristic uses of a traditionally totalitarian system of social control."
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