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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 …

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 …

A Psychiatric Survivor movement exists for a reason. Thomas Szasz refers to the coercive psychiatry systems that exist as forming psychiatric slavery. He wrote a book entitled Psychiatric Slavery …

Is meta data copyrighted? Could minimum royalty laws exist? Google advertises on pages of aggregated link titles and website descriptions. Google automates the collection of website page titles and …

I hope that no suicides happen. That is the starting point. Human life has value, and suffering deserves attention, care, and understanding. But the way a society responds to …

Birth control is influencing when one creates life. Death control is influencing when one’s own life ends. As far as I know, it was psychiatrist Thomas Szasz who invented …

Once psychiatry is fully rethought, one should recognize that psychiatric slavery should be outlawed. According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, civil commitment and the insanity defense form the foundation of …

Psychiatric coercion remains one of the least examined forms of power in modern society. It often appears under the language of care, safety, and treatment, yet it can involve …