Psychiatric false diagnosis

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American journalist

psychological experiment

thumb|upright|Samuel A. Cartwright (1793–1863) Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.

American writer (1968–2022)

alleged mental disorder applied to Soviet political dissidents

American psychologist and university teacher (1929–2012)

alleged mental illness linked to scientific racism

American rapper

labelling real experiences as delusional

Canadian children who were wrongly classified as mentally ill by the Quebec government

German victim of a miscarriage of justice

German lawyer (1924–2003)