Johann
Christian Reil
first coined the term psychiatry 202 years ago, suggested, 'Why not try
plunging the lunatic into a bath full of live eels? This is bound to prompt a
reaction. Or what about showing them a Katzenklavier, or cat-clavichord? (an
instrument played by pressing keys attached to nails which in turn strike the
tails of a series of cats arranged with care so as to miaow in tonally
sequenced pain.)'
Yeah, recover from that!
Psychiatry has such lovely great-granddaddies
to its current torture regimes.
202 years of psychiatric
torture! Yay! Bring back the Katzenklavier for the party celebrations! And allow for all those who duped into thinking that it’s
a cat parasite that caused their 'schizophrenia' to get revenge!
Bloody hell. Who in their right
mind would quote Reil as an example to be looked up to? Torture advocating idiots!
Being recruited into psychiatry?
You’ll not be a proper doctor, but you'll be a right proper torturer soon, if that’s your direction!
