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Madness, Power and the Media
Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Continue reading...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
20. September 2010
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Continue reading...Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
18. May 2008
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.
Continue reading...The Past Does Not Predict the Future
25. December 2007
Pessimism is self-fulfilling. When we expect nothing to change, then we do nothing to create change.
Continue reading...Pain is the Price of Remaining Human
6. December 2007
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Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.
Continue reading...The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind
4. November 2007
Imagine what we could do if we used our minds to solve social problems, instead of restricting ourselves to choosing which section of the elite will dominate us.
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Machismo at Work
29. September 2007
Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.
Continue reading...How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground
25. August 2007
Capitalism creates impossible conditions for both sexes. Because meeting human needs would cut into profits, people are deprived of what they need and then shamed for feeling needy. As resentment builds, we attack our loved ones instead of the system that keeps us deprived.
Continue reading...The Science of Social Change
18. August 2007
Capitalism is structured to keep most people feeling powerless most of the time, regardless of what they know and despite the fact that they are the majority. So how can we create change?
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