mental illness-causes and treatment

Mental illness or Neuroses still defies doctors and psychoanalysts. Anyone who does not confirm to the social norms is deemed to be mentally ill!To opt out of the rat race is considered an abnormality requiring treatment. In our amazing world mass murderers like Hitler,Stalin,Mao and George Bush are regarded as normal people while gifted people like Aaron Shwartz,Julian Assange,Mukul Shivputra and many others are regarded as mentally ill and fit to be kept in isolation. Statistics show that almost 40% of the world population has suffered from mental illness sometime or the other in their life.
The traditional methods of treatment include administration of tranquilizers,sedatives and ECT. Patients are confined in an institution in inhuman conditions,occasionally beaten up or tied to the bed and sometimes molested. They are shunned by family and friends alike which only aggravates their condition. It is well known that most of the drugs have severe side effects like dizziness,weight gain,loss of libido.irreversible kidney damage,blood pressure,diabetes and insomnia yet are routinely given to patients. Suicidal patients are administered ECT sometimes without anesthesia. In India there is a tie-up between hospitals,doctors,psychiatrists and even the guardians and the sole objective is to detain the patient as long as possible.
Dr.Stanislav Grof,an Austrian Psychiatrist has done pioneering work in the treatment of mental illness and contributed immensely to Trans-personal psychology-an emerging science. He advocates a combination of medicines with Yoga,a line of treatment which has had much success in The US.
So little is known about the human psyche yet Doctors claim the monopoly to "Treat" the mentally ill!