From CS:
According to the complaint, Ungerleider became angry after Spanish professor Ruth Borgman gave him an unfairly low grade on a final project and called her a bitch in front of his class during the final exam. He emailed Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Hazel May to say he was sorry and explain that he was being unfairly graded, but she told him to see a psychologist, it says.
The complaint says that May directed Stephanie Nixon, then the director of residential programs, to visit Ungerleider’s Wien dorm room. She did so at 12:30 in the morning, accompanied by campus security officers, who unlocked the door. When Ungerleider resisted, Nixon called the New York Police Department, and three officers handcuffed Ungerleider and escorted him to the hospital.
When he arrived at St. Luke’s, Ungerleider was interviewed by a series of psychiatrists, and he refused to answer their questions, the complaint says. When he tried to leave, three doctors tackled him and forcibly injected him with the drug Haldol.
The lawsuit says that Dr. Tara Malekshahi met with Ungerleider and described him as having “grandiose and paranoid delusions” and an illogical and incoherent thought process. Malekshahi and other doctors medicated him against his will and kept him in containment, it says.
Although he asked to leave repeatedly over the course of his month-long hospitalization, he claims, Ungerleider was not allowed to. His twin brother, also a Columbia student, tried to check Oren out of the hospital, but doctors would not release him.
Ungerleider eventually requested a court date to challenge his hospitalization, but the appearance did not result in his release. Instead, he remained at St. Luke’s until doctors released him on Jan. 21, 2011, the complaint says.
"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."- Thomas Szasz
I think this would have been a non-issue had Mr. Ungerleider simply referred to Ms. Borgman as a "puta" rather than a "bitch".
ReplyDelete"The lawsuit says that Dr. Tara Malekshahi met with Ungerleider and described him as having “grandiose and paranoid delusions” and an illogical and incoherent thought process."
ReplyDeletePray tell. Would these paranoid delusions include white coated thugs physically and forcefully injecting him with sedatives against his will? Locking him up despite no wrongdoing indefinitely? Yeah, this dude's nuts...
Seems like those most in need of psychiatric care are those who pay $60K or more to inflict this education upon their children.
ReplyDeleteCalling Nurse Ratched, job openings at Columbia. ¿Habla Español?
ReplyDeleteAre they orphans? Where are the parents?
ReplyDeleteNot only do I hate the state, it terrifies me that things like this are happening. Some of my education on the therapeutic state surely comes from Szasz, but also Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt and her opposition to the "mental health" initiatives put forth by our dear leader, George Bush. Lew Rockwell is great on this subject too, in part because his father was a medical doctor.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, I was diagnosed with "auditory and perception" deficits or something akin. I was always a quiet child who rarely misbehaved in class. Once, a larger bully in kindergarten who repeatedly threatened me was finally hit by my superhero-themed, metal lunchbox. This was in 1984-5. I didn't get cuffed or go to jail, but metal lunchboxes were thereafter banned at my Catholic elementary school. Today, I can imagine a child going through what Ungerleider went through.
I would love to have children someday, but I am terrified to bring them into this giant control grid that knows no boundaries, nor any concept of human dignity.
Clearly, Ruth Borgman had her precious pride injured that day. So, she had to retaliate against the use of a word, uttered in a momentary emotional reaction. This should warn the parents of Columbia-Juilliard and cause them to withdraw their children in protest. But it won't. They're stupid.
I'm sure there are plenty of great private tutors out there, minus the prestige of an Ivy league name, who could help develop the skills of young musicians. With the internet, all the world can be a stage for them; and, at less risk of pissing off some statist control freak, willing to enact punitive psychiatry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psikhushka
"The complaint says that May directed Stephanie Nixon, then the director of residential programs, to visit Ungerleider’s Wien dorm room. She did so at 12:30 in the morning, accompanied by campus security officers, who unlocked the door. When Ungerleider resisted, Nixon called..."
ReplyDeleteWhen Ungerleider resisted WHAT???
I'd love to be on Ungerleider's side, and no doubt his being committed is revolting and clearly an attempt at intimidation.
But i can't help but feel we're not getting the whole story here.
Was he asked to leave private property and refused? Did he start using violence when security wanted to "help" remove him after he resisted? What exactly did he resist?
He resisted arrest, numnuts. Another uniformed thug who forcibly removing someone from his own premises (if he was current on his rent at least) does not qualify for mental impairment. You cant make up the rules as you enforce them. Then the rules just become 'suggestions'.
DeleteHe resisted arrest, numnuts. Another uniformed thug who forcibly removing someone from his own premises (if he was current on his rent at least) does not qualify for mental impairment. You cant make up the rules as you enforce them. Then the rules just become 'suggestions'.
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