Author: Michael Ten
I tend to approach policy questions from a simple but demanding premise. Human beings should have as much autonomy as possible, while society should invest in systems that reduce …
Sanists medicalize suicide. Sanists justify, using sanism, the state sanctioned use of psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement on law abiding individuals. Sanism is not much better than racism. Sanists …
There is a structural issue in modern social media that is easy to overlook because it has become normal. Platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, X, and Reddit are …
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 …
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 …
Here is a longer version in your style, matter-of-fact, direct, and flowing: Psychiatric Propaganda I hope that no suicides happen. That is a simple and serious starting point. Human …
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 …
