Terran psychiatry

Terran psychiatry refers to the style and underlying ideology of the study and medicine of the mind as it is practiced in Terra. It is an instrument of social control according to the superstate transnationalist ideology of Terraism, manipulated to suppress dissent and criticism of the Terran regime. 
== Fundamental doctrine of Terran psychiatryCategory:Terran psychiatry ==
The fundamental doctrine of Terran psychiatry has been described as behavioristic, as it is stated in the Mores of the Study and Healing of the Mind that "the acts of the mind are indistinguishable from acts of the brain, and observable behavior can be used to infer internal mental states." 
== Use ==
Psychiatry is often fused with politics and used to force citizens to conform to the will of the elite. The diagnosing of people with mental disorders is used by psychiatrists to discredit and vilify persons who "misbehave," that is, question or defy their commands.