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Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Wrongful involuntary commitment is an important issue in the movement. It has been active in various forms for two centuries.[1][2]Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to what some view as dangerous treatments.[2]

Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Wrongful involuntary commitment is an important issue in the movement. It has been active in various forms for two centuries.[1][2]Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to what some view as dangerous treatments.[2]

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The problem with Thomas Szasz and his "L. Ron Hubbard" masters (Hi CIA groomers!) is they avoid manufactured insanity from sexualized children and Institutional Chid abuse. Then there is the Scientologist ability to use said Collective for emotional triggers to control vigilante mobs. How's that working out for the whistle blowers of child abuse?

Let us not forget David Graham Cooper, a prime example of a control freak. The asshole helped America shut down insane asylums for the criminally insane only to be released into group homes so they can be weaponized with little or no supervision upon an innocent community.

It is assholes like him who closed down the mental institutions that save every single urban hellhole from collateral damage by the criminally insane.

Fools like these idiots pretended that self medication was a right and personal choice trumps personal responsibility. Fucking assholes.

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The basis for modern psychoanalysis is the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Freud's work is based of the total of the 9 clients he had. He refused to take vacation, because he was concerned that without coming to see him, they would get well on their own.

Jung claimed all the knowledge he had came from a demon that came and talked to him at night.

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coercive instrument of oppression

I feel like this is thrown in here to mask the truth that psychoanalysis was created in order to normalize deviance and undermine the traditional patriarchial authority structures the West was built on.

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