Flavio Giuseppe di Leone (personnummer 19841004-8352) is a psychiatrist at Sahlgrenska Universitetetssjukhuset. He lives at Talattagatan 5, 426 76 Västra Frölunda.
As a psychiatrist, it is his job, like a secular priest, to render moral judgement on people, deciding over them whether they will be locked up and abused with electroshocks or not. Flavio di Leone gladly commits patients who do not meet his moral standards, or his bourgeois idea of what “normal” is.
Thomas Szasz has explained the error of the “science” (that is, the theology of) psychiatry in the following way:
“The second error in regarding complex psycho-social behavior, consisting of communications about ourselves and the world about us, as mere symptoms [p. 114] of neurological functioning is epistemological. In other words, it is an error pertaining not to any mistakes in observation or reasoning, as such, but rather to the way in which we organize and express our knowledge. In the present case, the error lies in making a symmetrical dualism between mental and physical (or bodily) symptoms, a dualism which is merely a habit of speech and to which no known observations can be found to correspond. Let us see if this is so. In medical practice, when we speak of physical disturbances, we mean either signs (for example, a fever) or symptoms (for example, pain). We speak of mental symptoms, on the other hand, when we refer to a patient’s communications about himself, others, and the world about him. He might state that he is Napoleon or that he is being persecuted by the Communists. These would be considered mental symptoms only if the observer believed that the patient was not Napoleon or that he was not being persecuted[sic] by the Communists. This makes it apparent that the statement that “X is a mental symptom” involves rendering a judgment. The judgment entails, moreover, a covert comparison or matching of the patient’s ideas, concepts, or beliefs with those of the observer and the society in which they live. The notion of mental symptom is therefore inextricably tied to the social (including ethical) context in which it is made in much the same way as the notion of bodily symptom is tied to an anatomical and genetic context (Szasz, 1957a, 1957b).”
Hence, to diagnose someone with a mental “disorder” is to render a moral judgement like a Catholic priest who judges upon someone’s immoral behavior or character. It shall be no surprise that di Leone has studied in Rome, the Mecca of Roman Catholicism, and is therefore very skilled at rendering moral judgements. As such, his career choice does not surprise anyone.
Di Leone is also specialized in hypnosis, a “ther/apy method” that is not evidence based. Furthermore, he has worked in forensic psychiatry as an expert witness, and as such his moral judgements extend to the criminal law system. And we all know, that Italy has one of the most corrupt tribunal systems of Europe.
Flavio di Leone, born 4 October 1984, must have been the best altar boy of his hometown parish. Now, in “secular” Sweden, his theocratic skills render good income, as he earns 828 192 SEK, the equivalent of $96,941 USD of annual income, paid for by the tax payer. His employer must have liked his judgements so much, that he has made a rapid career in only 4 years.
He is married to Donatella Laghi (personnummer 19820303-7687), and they apparently live with housemates. Maintaining the house is apparently, too much work.
