Sentient Witness: Authentica Inviolata

By: Bastiani, Wilfred-Leonard

The Sentient Witness: Authentica Inviolata "To identify oneself is to risk being named by others. To remain authentic is to risk being diagnosed." In a world where mental labels are traded for truth and diagnosis replaces dialogue, this work is a philosophical and juridical rebellion. *The Sentient Witness* speaks for those who refuse to be defined by external systems - psychiatric, legal, or cultural. At its core lies *Authentica Inviolata* - the untouched authenticity of the human being. Guided by the principle of congruence from authenticity, this book explores how modern psychiatry, when merged with state power, becomes a tool for erasing selfhood rather than healing it. References: - Article 16 of the ICCPR - the right to be recognized as a person before the law; - Article 12 of the ICESCR - the right to health, distorted into an instrument of control; - and the silent, growing discrimination of identification... ...this book confronts the systemic tendency to pathologize difference and to medicalize sovereignty. More than critique, *The Sentient Witness* is a declaration: **You are not a diagnosis. You are the witness, the source, and the self.**

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1326259768
• ISBN13: 9781326259761
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"