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Tag Archives: medication
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
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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
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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
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Tagged anti-psychiatry, individualism, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, Robert Whitaker, Thomas S. Szasz
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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
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Tagged anti-psychiatry, individualism, medication, mental health, psychiatry, psychology, Thomas S. Szasz
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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
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