This violence forces the child to suppress their awareness of the mental processes, especially the feelings, that generated the original and functional behavior so that they can comply with your violence. globalhealingcenter.com%2fnatu ral-health%2f12-shocking- facts-psychiatric-drugs%2f& utm_campaign=Monthly_Newslette r_April_2014&utm_content= Monthly_Newsletter_April_2014 And this psychiatric violence has catastrophic consequences for society. See ‘Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union and in China: Complexities and Controversies’ http://jaapl.org/content/30/1/ 136.full.pdf But a more recent version of this type of psychiatric violence was the Federal Violence Initiative started in the US in 1992. Feelings won’t hurt you; suppressing your awareness of them with drugs, electroshocking or other violence will. But any experienced nonviolent activist knows that psychiatry, like other manifestations of violence (such as domestic violence, economic exploitation, slavery, ecological destruction and war) cannot be ‘reformed’.