Sensory Deprivation on a Psychiatric Ward is Malpractrice

The use of Sensory Deprivation on a Psychiatric Ward by psychiatrists and psychiatric hospitals is malpractice. The typical psychiatric ward has the psychiatric patients laying in bed or sitting in unconfortable chairs in a hospital day room for hours at a time without any enjoyable stimulation. When a person in this situation is subject to such sensory deprivation the result is that the person begins to hallucinate and become psychotic. See, Mark Benjamin, "Sensory Deprivation Torture" (2007). Also, the person can begin to talk to him or herself out loud.
Since the goal of psychiatry is to diminish or eliminate psychosis or other symptoms in the psychistric patient, obviously having a regime of sensory deprivation on a psychiatric ward which produces psychosis is malpractice by the psychiatrist and the psychiatric hospital. In order to avoid sensory deprivation on the ward, the patients should have their own music, dvds to watch, enjoyable hobbies to work on, and frequent outings to outside movie theatres for a movie and out to eat at good restaurants.
(C)Copyright (2011 C.E.) by Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism P.C. (PA)