I discuss Neo-liberalism, mental health and who sets the rules, with Ron Roberts, Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at Kingston University, a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His books include Psychology and Capitalism (2015), and The Off-Modern: Psychology estranged (2017) (Both with Zero Books).
https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ron-roberts-119/
– This story reminds me of the “good old” Soviet Union. Opponents of the communist party & communism in the Soviet Union were regularly diagnosed with having a “Mental Disease” and that was good enough to put them in a “psychiatric clinic”.