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Kate Millett

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Kate Millett

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Kate Millett is criticizing how psychiatry has been used by the government as a tool to control people, especially women, by institutionalizing them based on personal or social complaints rather than medical reasons. She highlights the power imbalance where a husband's dislike could lead to a woman being forcibly confined, showing an abuse of authority under the guise of mental health.

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