u/FoughtStatue

I’ve been looking into anti-psychiatry recently and it’s very interesting. It’s a spectrum of ideas but it always calls psychiatry a pseudoscience and in extreme cases denies the existence of mental illness completely, portraying it as a method of oppression by capitalism. It seems to be more popular on the left, especially in the European “new left” movements. Because of that I don’t expect it to be very popular here, as a lot of people don’t really like the European new left stuff.

I think anti-psychiatry is complete nonsense, mental illness is very real. It has social/environmental causes, but eliminating capitalism won’t make mental illness disappear. Psychiatric medicines save lives.