Month: December 2017

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 …

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 …

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 …

I think that educating people about Szaszian ethics is important to ending abusive psychiatry. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz relies on logic, common sense, precise language, and epistemological reasoning, and decent …