Why "To Kill a Mockingbird" Still Resonates Today. In Irish shoes. By Maryna Hrabar.

@human rights. People have been trying to ban Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird since the 1960s.

And since the 1960s, they have largely failed.

As the defenders of "To Kill a Mockingbird" explain: “To Kill a Mockingbird was not yet on the State Board’s list, so the school board deemed it offensive because of the plot of a white attorney defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town (Bellot). Unfortunately, rape occurs in this world and there is no escaping the fact that it happens. Reading about a man being accused of rape is not going to influence anyone to rape someone”.

Sharing what To Kill a Mockingbird means to you? It changed my life – it taught me a fundamental lesson in life (that to understand someone, you have to walk around in their skin.) Suddenly a whole new world opened up to me and I started to become the person I wanted to be. The book has guided me throughout my life, teaching me compassion and kindness to all.

The only possible criticism of Atticus Finch is that he is too tolerant of the prejudices of his community, but then bearing witness and being a good example are at certain times the best way to change society.

The Tragedy of Mental Health Law (the USA): “Across the U.S.

today, federal and state laws give people with mental illness the right to

decide when, where, how, and if they will receive care. Yet some serious

mental illnesses (such as schizophrenia or mania) can make it difficult

for those affected to assess the reality of their own experiences or their

need for treatment”. An individual with a mental illness that interferes

with his judgment, self-interest, self-preservation and safety represents a

profound challenge for families and clinicians. Doctors have remarked

that when patient rights exceed truly necessary protections, individuals

with mental illness can “die with their rights on.” Sometimes they may

harm others along the way... What if Richard Nixon resigned and became

the only US president to leave office early and voluntarily not because he

murdered US citizens? He was mildly depressed, a doctor confirmed, and

at that moment he didn't realize what he was doing? But he has rested

and may be back in office again?

Maryna Hrabar is Amazon author (USA). “The struggle for the upper mind.: Cold War”?Paperback – December 4, 2021. In this book, she explains why punitive psychiatry exists and why this phenomenon needs to be banned.?

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The story from Ireland 2022.?

Back to the USSR?

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Maryna Hrabar?

Consulting psychology | Coaching Professional | Author | 22+ years | Accredited|?

Back to the USSR?

Repressive psychiatry.??

“If he lies there and doesn't move, it means he is recovering”?

In May 1954, the New York Times wrote about how the USSR was using methods developed by Pavlov for ideological indoctrination. In 1951 the book “Soviet Psychiatry” by Joseph?Wortis?was published in the United States. He detailed how approaches to psychiatry in the United States and the USSR fundamentally differ. In the USA, psychoanalysis was at the core: the root of psychiatric problems was?sought?and found in the subconscious, repressed?traumas?and unrealized desires. In the USSR, psychiatry was based on the physiological teachings of Academician Pavlov:?they dealt not with the causes, but with the physiological manifestations of mental disorders and treated them with medications. On August 23, 1955, three Americans stood outside the Sovetskaya Hotel in Moscow and thought about how to deceive a dozen KGB officers guarding the entrance. These three were William Worthy, a journalist and future associate of Malcolm X, Daniel Weisberg, a professor of real estate management at Boston University, and Albert Maysles, a psychology lecturer from the same university. They came to the USSR on a secret mission —to make a film about Soviet psychiatric hospitals. Maysles spent about a month in the USSR and managed to visit psychiatric hospitals in Moscow,?Leningrad, Kyiv, and Odesa. He?failed to?discover anything fundamentally new: In the USSR, the cause of mental disorders is not?sought?in emotional factors, as in the USA, but in the structure of the brain. They rely?mainly on?medications and do not lie down on the therapist's couch. Of course, Maysles understood that he was given access to exemplary psychiatric hospitals, but it was not so important. In the process, Soviet psychiatry faded into the background for him, giving way to a new hobby - documentary filming...