Author: Michael Ten
It is indeed important to examine the correlation between psychiatric drugs and violence. Psychiatric drugs don’t cause violence. To state that psychiatric drugs make someone be violent is like …
Social media can be a powerful medium. Through using social media we can help to raise awareness of the wrongness and immorality of psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry. Here …
Psychiatry inflicts harm in subtle and also not so subtle ways. Psychiatric abuse needs to be outlawed. Psychiatric slavery needs to be outlawed. Psychiatric coercion needs to be outlawed. …
In a college class we were assigned to read Szasz’s essay, The Myth of Mental Illness. In a graduate level ethics class we were shown a video of a …
I think stigma related to receiving psychological and psychiatric services will exist as long as nonconsensual psychiatry exists. Once suicide is respected as a civil and human right for …
Psychiatry is effectively a pseudo medical cult. It engages in forced conversion using civil commitment and psychiatric holds. It relies on implicit theological posits in order to help justify …
Read books that psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote like The Myth of Mental Illness. The mind is intangible and can only be metaphorically sick, just as a sick joke is …
I hope that no suicides happen. We should use persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides, not psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement. Psychiatrists medicalize human misery and tragedy. To …
Read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. There is no objective ways to diagnose psychiatric disorders. Psychiatrists are for the most part the only type doctors who …
Downs syndrome is an objectively identifiable genetic abnormality, as I understand it. There is no objective medical test to diagnose depression. “Clinical Depression” is medicalized misery. We should offer …