Persons engage in actions. Civil commitment is preventive detention of the innocent. I submit that Hinckley's non-existent illness and psychiatric torture is emblematic of a large class of phenomena that Skeptics are not eager to be skeptical about. They have good reasons for their selective skepticism. As there is no psychiatry without psychiatric acts, so too there is no madness without mad acts.
Psychiatry is an instrument of the coercive apparatus of the status.
Skepticism about psychiatry would then become as politically correct as skepticism about religion is now. Consider the contrast between Freedom of Religion and Unfreedom from Psychiatry. Hence, Psychiatry is a danger to everyone. Organized religion qua religion is separated from the American State by the Constitution as well as by custom. All rights reserved.