This is probably where I'll get abuse for my views. This terminated
trial is an example of how drug are used for thought and behaviour
change. Yes, it's for paedophilia and everyone knows that's a terrible
thing. It's not really an illness though it may or may not be possible
to 'treat' it with drugs. It's only an illness in the same way
homosexuality was considered an illness.
As psychiatry is revealed to be a system of thought and behavioural
control is becomes less and less something that is considered with the
same status as the real medical field. The example I've chosen is a hard
one because people would feel the need to 'treat' these people however
lets step away from the language of health. Let's not say "cure" because
that implies no challenge and innate goodness in the activity. Say brain
wash and behaviour modify, just as was done to homosexuals in the past.
Of course paedophilia is a terrible thing but it is still a cultural
construct of problematicness. There are tribes where the chief deflowers
every girl and this is an accepted part of the culture so it becomes
normal and there is as much, or even less, trauma than how many women
lose their virginity. For some this can happen drunk round the back of
some local pub.
It needs to be managed as a behaviour and thought pattern but there are
ethics that must be applied. Within psychiatric these ethics don't exist
because they're focused on disease management principles, principles
which are based around saving patients lives rather than making changes
in people to make them fit into cultural norms.
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