On the Failure of Psychiatry: reply to The Atlantic's 'Psychiatry's Incurable Hubris'
From the clinical beginnings with Kraepelin and Bleuler a social dimension is noted with pathologising the poor and socially non conforming and how that became policed. then the chemical imbalanced myth sustained because trust was developed. Then the failure of biopharmaceutical model.
The appropriated hope promoted by a more humble psychiatry calling itself "quality" is also tenuous. the paradigmatic push to neurology brings new questions. The developing electromagnetic treatment still without promoted and translated disclosures of risk but framing itself as "non invasive." Neurological injury and neurogenomic discrimination. A frequency and molecular politics. The promise of affordable cannibidiol oil and other medical prior illicit drugs are also on the table.
A comment around this was made by an other on the use of the terms mentally ill, schizophrenia and other medically constructed pathologies. the term Mad is used as political terrain away from stigma. Coming off medicine is difficult without either science or group support. Social awareness campaigns on stigma alone won't do it. The Foucauldian tenor of activism has to some degree stopped talking to science. And I don't blame them one bit though
Ariel Riveros is a Sydney-based author, multi artist and theorist. With multiple comorbidities he considers himself very much alive.
The appropriated hope promoted by a more humble psychiatry calling itself "quality" is also tenuous. the paradigmatic push to neurology brings new questions. The developing electromagnetic treatment still without promoted and translated disclosures of risk but framing itself as "non invasive." Neurological injury and neurogenomic discrimination. A frequency and molecular politics. The promise of affordable cannibidiol oil and other medical prior illicit drugs are also on the table.
A comment around this was made by an other on the use of the terms mentally ill, schizophrenia and other medically constructed pathologies. the term Mad is used as political terrain away from stigma. Coming off medicine is difficult without either science or group support. Social awareness campaigns on stigma alone won't do it. The Foucauldian tenor of activism has to some degree stopped talking to science. And I don't blame them one bit though
