StateOfMind
Liberty or Death
- Apr 30, 2020
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I am not going to try and re-invent the wheel here which is why I'm putting focus on following citations. All I can say is that what I have experienced was awe-full hell in the hands of psychiatry, ranging between 2016 and 2018 and in different countries. I don't promote suicide but given the circumstances of some or even many people I can totally understand why they would want to go down that path.
- Be sure to also check out SSRI stories (linked in the footnote) [04]
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[01] "The social forces Foucault sees driving this confinement include the need for an extra-judicial mechanism for getting rid of undesirables, and the wish to regulate unemployment and wages (the cheap labour of the workhouses applied downward pressure on the wages of free labour). He argues that the conceptual distinction between the mad and the rational was in a sense a product of this physical separation into confinement: confinement made the mad conveniently available to medical doctors who began to view madness as a natural object worthy of study and then as an illness to be cured."
Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization
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[02] 'The legitimacy of psychiatry is questioned by Szasz, who compares it to alchemy and astrology, and argues that it offends the values of autonomy and liberty. Szasz believes that the concept of mental illness is not only logically absurd but has harmful consequences: instead of treating cases of ethical or legal deviation as occasions when a person should be taught personal responsibility, attempts are made to "cure" the deviants, for example by giving them tranquilizers. Psychotherapy is regarded by Szasz as useful not to help people recover from illnesses, but to help them "learn about themselves, others, and life." Discussing Jean-Martin Charcot and hysteria, Szasz argues that hysteria is an emotional problem and that Charcot's patients were not really ill.'
Thomas Szasz - The Myth of Mental Illness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
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[03] "The bedrock of political medicine is coercion masquerading as medical treatment. : In this process, physicians diagnose a disapproved condition as an "illness" and declare the intervention they impose on the victim a "treatment," and legislators and judges legitimate these categorizations. In the same way, physician-eugenicists advocated killing certain disabled or ill persons as a form of treatment for both society and patient long before the Nazis came to power."
"In his book Asylums, Erving Goffman coined the term 'total institution' for mental hospitals and similar places which took over and confined a person's whole life. Goffman placed psychiatric hospitals in the same category as concentration camps, prisons, military organizations, orphanages, and monasteries. In Asylums Goffman describes how the institutionalisation process socialises people into the role of a good patient, someone 'dull, harmless and inconspicuous'; it in turn reinforces notions of chronicity in severe mental illness."
Erving Goffman - Asylums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylums_(book)
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While your here check following resources (content may be disturbing for some readers)
[04] "SSRI Stories is a collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence."
ssristories.org
https://ssristories.org/
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Anti-psychiatry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
- Be sure to also check out SSRI stories (linked in the footnote) [04]
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[01] "The social forces Foucault sees driving this confinement include the need for an extra-judicial mechanism for getting rid of undesirables, and the wish to regulate unemployment and wages (the cheap labour of the workhouses applied downward pressure on the wages of free labour). He argues that the conceptual distinction between the mad and the rational was in a sense a product of this physical separation into confinement: confinement made the mad conveniently available to medical doctors who began to view madness as a natural object worthy of study and then as an illness to be cured."
Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization
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[02] 'The legitimacy of psychiatry is questioned by Szasz, who compares it to alchemy and astrology, and argues that it offends the values of autonomy and liberty. Szasz believes that the concept of mental illness is not only logically absurd but has harmful consequences: instead of treating cases of ethical or legal deviation as occasions when a person should be taught personal responsibility, attempts are made to "cure" the deviants, for example by giving them tranquilizers. Psychotherapy is regarded by Szasz as useful not to help people recover from illnesses, but to help them "learn about themselves, others, and life." Discussing Jean-Martin Charcot and hysteria, Szasz argues that hysteria is an emotional problem and that Charcot's patients were not really ill.'
Thomas Szasz - The Myth of Mental Illness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness
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[03] "The bedrock of political medicine is coercion masquerading as medical treatment. : In this process, physicians diagnose a disapproved condition as an "illness" and declare the intervention they impose on the victim a "treatment," and legislators and judges legitimate these categorizations. In the same way, physician-eugenicists advocated killing certain disabled or ill persons as a form of treatment for both society and patient long before the Nazis came to power."
"In his book Asylums, Erving Goffman coined the term 'total institution' for mental hospitals and similar places which took over and confined a person's whole life. Goffman placed psychiatric hospitals in the same category as concentration camps, prisons, military organizations, orphanages, and monasteries. In Asylums Goffman describes how the institutionalisation process socialises people into the role of a good patient, someone 'dull, harmless and inconspicuous'; it in turn reinforces notions of chronicity in severe mental illness."
Erving Goffman - Asylums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylums_(book)
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While your here check following resources (content may be disturbing for some readers)
[04] "SSRI Stories is a collection of over 6,000 stories that have appeared in the media (newspapers, TV, scientific journals) in which prescription drugs were mentioned and in which the drugs may be linked to a variety of adverse outcomes including violence."
ssristories.org
https://ssristories.org/
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Anti-psychiatry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
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