Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that treats "mental" and "behavioral" disorders. Fairly often, the idea is that the brain and mind are similar to other parts of the body and can get sick just like any other organ. Therefore, intervention by medical doctors has the potential to make people healthier.
The side effects of many psychiatric drugs are rather severe compared to other classes of drugs. Some of the side effects of common neuroleptics, anti-depressants, and anti-anxiety medications include increased risk of suicide, insomnia, impotence, somnolence, weight gain, death, stroke, seritonin syndrome, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, tardive dyskinesia, and many others.
Psychiatry may over look the problems in living that may cause subjective personal distress. Rather than treating subjective emotional distress as something that may be examined from a social perspective, it may view subjective emotional distress as something originating in the brain that should be treated with chemicals that have lots of side effects.
Thomas Szasz has labeled involuntary treatment and the the insanity defense as the bedrocks of modern coercive institutional psychiatry. It has been stated that if these two institutions were abolished, then only consensual psychiatry would exist.