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 …

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 …

I don’t think that an actual significant reduction in suicides will take place until suicide is respected as a civil and human right for adults, when it’s done in …

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 …