Freedom of Religion or Belief · Spiritual Minorities · Global Advocacy
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Valérie Dole's sourced inquiry into forced psychiatric commitment in France: 52,000 forced hospitalisations in 2000, the I3P infirmary operating outside the law, and the ministry advice that ties guardianship to the cult accusation.
Valérie Dole documents the 1998 law that made home education 'exceptional' in France: the parliamentary session verbatim, the annual inspections and mayoral inquiries it created, and the cult panic that carried it unanimously.
Valérie Dole assembles what the serious research actually says about suicide in France, from the WHO figures to the prisons to Durkheim, and finds spiritual membership nowhere among the causes; the parallel drawn by anti-cultism runs the other way.
1 January 2005