Why Lawsuits about Psychiatric Malpractice Are Difficult to Win
By Peter C. Gøtzsche November 6, 2025 Law, Psychology 29 minute read
Initially, Prentki could not come in contact with Nathalie to tell her the bad news, and he learned later that she had suffered a rather serious stroke. Shortly after he had told her of the verdict, she took her own life, disappointed by the injustice she had suffered. She felt profoundly betrayed, first by the medical system and subsequently by the justice system.
I told Prentki that I could understand why Nathalie felt she had had enough of this world: “She became yet another person among millions killed by psychiatry, the only atrocity that we officially allow in our societies. I have argued why psychiatry should be disbanded in my latest book.” I called the book, “Is psychiatry a crime against humanity?,” and answered affirmatively.10 One of the reasons why I wrote the book is that, as an expert witness in several court cases, and after having read many articles on the subject, I had found a total lack of accountability and a dysfunctional judicial system when the issue is psychiatry.
We must systematically educate lawyers and judges so that they can rule fairly in lawsuits related to psychiatry, which are virtually always farcical. Judge Picard’s biases and lack of courage and proficiency in this verdict were one of the causal factors that led to Nathalie’s suicide.
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