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The Ministry of Culture and Information asked the mental health workers, signatories to the petition, to condemn the ministry’s earlier response, to inform the public of what are called “explicit depictions of the massacre of children’s bodies” and “if it is a common state of mind to fantasize about such scenes. ” line on paper ”.
Photo: Beta / Milan TimoticWe also ask them to inform the public when and how they became a language oversight body and, if permitted by their supervisors, to post a list of colloquial expressions that, in their professional opinion, may be used in speech or literary expression , and that they list writers (Dostoevsky “Shakespeare, Andrić and others) who should be censored or condemned due to abuse of ‘professional terms’,” the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry also asked the petitioners “if they would show drawings with scenes of mutilated children to their children,” that is, if they would keep them on the walls of their apartments and workplaces.
A group of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and other mental health workers previously launched a petition to protest the announcement by the Serbian Ministry of Culture, saying that comments on the “state of consciousness” of artists whose works were recently attacked in Belgrade were inappropriate.
“We consider, as professions dedicated to mental health, that the qualifications as ‘pathology and deviation of conscience’, as well as ‘the underworld of the human spirit’, are completely inadequate,” the initiators of the petition affirmed.
They added that the use of such words does great harm to people living with mental disabilities, so they called on the authorities to take responsibility and withdraw their statements, and not to make similar mistakes in the future.
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