IdeaRiff Research

Read the essay and book The Myth of Mental Illness by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Mental illnesses are metaphors for problems in living, emotional distress, trauma, and uneasily explained behaviors. …

Sometimes when I’m only seeing with spiritual vision and hearing with spiritual hearing, then i do experience the ACIM Truth that we are in Heaven now. As i understand …

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 …