-
Archives
- August 2026
- July 2026
- June 2026
- May 2026
- March 2026
- January 2026
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- July 2024
- June 2024
- April 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- October 2023
- July 2023
- July 2022
- February 2022
- July 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
-
Meta
Tag Archives: anti-psychiatry
The (Un)real Existence of ADHD_Criteria, Functions, and Forms of the Diagnostic Entity
From back cover: “The contemporary conceptualization of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a complex, multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder cannot be understood as such without a complex assemblage of political, economic, and cultural processes that deem the conceptualization to be valuable … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, The Prison Industrial Complex
Tagged anti-psychiatry, Athanasios Koutsoklenis, individualism, Juho Honkasilta, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, social control
Comments Off on The (Un)real Existence of ADHD_Criteria, Functions, and Forms of the Diagnostic Entity
There Are No “Chemical Imbalances”: Exposing the Profit Motive Behind Psychiatry and the Myth of the “Chemical Imbalance” Theory
From back cover: “…biopsychiatric theory and research resulted in a tidal wave of sales for the makers of Thorazine®, the first neuroleptic drug (meaning lobotomizing or brain-disabling drug – modern biopsychiatrists prefer to call this class of drug “antipsychotic”) and … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, The Prison Industrial Complex
Tagged anti-psychiatry, bodily autonomy, Eaton T. Fores, individualism, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology
Comments Off on There Are No “Chemical Imbalances”: Exposing the Profit Motive Behind Psychiatry and the Myth of the “Chemical Imbalance” Theory
Without Informed Consent: The Global Export of a Failed Paradigm of Care
From back cover: “The discourse around health as a human rights issue usually focuses on access to medical treatment. However, the “right to health” begins with the right to informed consent about the merits of a treatment, which has been … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, The Prison Industrial Complex
Tagged anti-psychiatry, individualism, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, Robert Whitaker, Thomas S. Szasz
Comments Off on Without Informed Consent: The Global Export of a Failed Paradigm of Care
There Is No Such Thing as a Psychiatric Disorder/Disease/ Chemical Imbalance
From back cover: “In 1948, “neuropsychiatry” was divided into “neurology,” dealing with diseases, and “psychiatry,” dealing with emotions and behaviors. If there is a macroscopic, microscopic, or chemical abnormality, a disease is present. Nowhere in the brains or bodies of … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged ADHD, anti-psychiatry, Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Fred Baughman, Jr., M.D, psychiatry, self care, self-help
Comments Off on There Is No Such Thing as a Psychiatric Disorder/Disease/ Chemical Imbalance
Disorderly Conduct: Veganism, Eating Disorders, and Captivity
From back cover: “The eating disorder recovery industry is a potent example of how human supremacy perpetuates harm and immense suffering. Have you ever heard anyone say they cannot be vegan because they are in recovery from an eating disorder? … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian, Animal Liberation & Earth Liberation
Tagged anti-civ, anti-civilization, anti-psychiatry, anti-speciesism, health, individualist anarchy, individualist vegan, Luca Nicos, mental health, vegan anarchy, vegan nihilism
Comments Off on Disorderly Conduct: Veganism, Eating Disorders, and Captivity
The Conditioned Dysthymia of Civilization
From back cover: “…And eventually, I came to believe that the problem had never been with my brain – at least, not in the way I had been taught. Without the pills, I was not ‘chemically imbalanced’. I was traumatized, … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged anti-civ, anti-psychiatry, Baba Yaga, green anarchy, individualist anarchy, mental health, nihilism, psychiatry, psychology
Comments Off on The Conditioned Dysthymia of Civilization
On Self-Love and Gun Powder
From back cover: “I remain an embodiment of insubordination, the fluidity of unbridled emotions, the nihilist poetry of a tsunami in flux. I do not sympathize with conforming to behavorial servitude in order to preserve the general peace of subordinating … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti-civ, anti-psychiatry, Flower Bomb, illegalism, individualist anarchy, mental health, nihilism, self care
Comments Off on On Self-Love and Gun Powder
An Iconoclastic Monstrocity: Disability Against Civilization
Introduction: “In the vast ocean of social war, some rebels – damaged, frail, or terminally ill – refuse to surrender to the victimization of disability. The world-builders attempt to subdue them with peace-offerings of technospheric assimilation and consumerist comforts. But … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged ableism, anarcho-nihilism, anti-civ, anti-medical, anti-medication, anti-psychiatry, disability, green anarchy, individualism
Comments Off on An Iconoclastic Monstrocity: Disability Against Civilization
Descending into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry
From back cover: “Like all governments, presidents, and authority, psychiatry never gave me freedom. Assigned psychiatric labels didn’t help me – they only filled me with an internalized sense of victimhood and inferiority. Medication didn’t ‘cure’ or ‘fix’ me – … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anti-civ, anti-psychiatry, asylum riots, Flower Bomb, green anarchy, individualist anarchy, nihilism, post-left anarchy, prisoner support
Comments Off on Descending into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry
Questioning (the authority of) Psychiatry
In 1961, a young psychiatrist by the name of Thomas S. Szasz initiated a one-man insurgency against his own profession. After years of being a practicing psychiatrist, he became an outspoken dissident, hell-bent on dynamiting the foundations of psychiatry. “Why … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged anti-psychiatry, individualism, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, Thomas S. Szasz
Comments Off on Questioning (the authority of) Psychiatry
Reclaim Your Mind
Text from back cover: “As far as we know, we only have one life on this planet. Why should we waste it trying to adapt ourselves to the always more demanding expectations of this insane society when there is so … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchist/Anti-Authoritarian
Tagged anarcho-nihilism, anarchy, anti-essentialism, anti-medication, anti-politics, anti-psychiatry, anti-work, anti-workerism, Attack, individualism, insurrectionary anarchy, medication, mental health, nihilism, pharmaceutical industrial complex, play, post-left anarchy, post-leftism, psychiatry, Social War
Comments Off on Reclaim Your Mind