Totalitarian regimes are incapable of tolerating any appreciable degree of independent thinking.
They feel nervous when a subject steps out of line and take measures to discourage it. This threat is used increasingly in the case of believers whose profession of faith alone gives pretext for suspicion of 'abnormality' in an officially atheist, conformist society. The victim of psychiatric pressure faces not only excruciating physical pain as a result of the massive doses of drugs administered, but also the chilling prospect of being transformed into a drooling idiot. If a prisoner is held to be not accountable on the grounds of mental illness, the trial is held, without the prisoner even being present, and he or she is sentenced to indefinite confinement in a Special Psychiatric Hospital. What is worse, as a result of the treatment , the delicate texture of human personality is coarsened, and this-brings death to creation.