title: Racism may be abhorrent, but it is not a psychiatric condition.
abstract: I was horrified to read mental health nurse Tony Leiba's assertion that racism might be a psychiatric condition (features October 3). However abhorrent and misinformed, racism remains opinion, thoughts and assumptions. To suggest that these attitudes are in some way psychiatric is a step towards totalitarianism.
authors.affiliation: By email.
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Young