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On attempts to medicalise distress, and the backlash against alternatives - Ian Parker (anticapitalistresistance.org)
 

Originally posted by u/ProgressiveArchitect on Reddit.

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Are you anti-psychiatry? Why or why not? (piefed.diffrint.org)
 

Originally posted by u/PhilosophyPoet on Reddit.

Top comment by u/srklipherrd

asking in earnest and not trying to sound "clever" - I was under the impression anti-psychiatry and taking psychotropic meds (as you see fit) as being fairly mutually exclusive but reading these comments have me questioning that notion. To be specific, I understood anti-psychiatry as a radical form of informed consent vs an abstinent way of operating.

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If mainstream therapy is inadequate, how would you describe what they do from a historical materialist perspective? (piefed.diffrint.org)
 

Let's say you're some mental health therapist working in somewhere you'd describe as mainstream, e.g. the UK's NHS has talking therapy.

Let's say you have no clue about historical materialism / socialism / psychotherapy-leftism and neither does your patient.

  • What are you doing to your patient?

  • What is your function in the capitalist system?

  • And, in what situations will you meet a contradiction you can't resolve?

Originally posted by u/WritingtheWrite on Reddit.