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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest 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
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?
Continue reading...Alienation and Dissociation: The Two Sides of Powerlessness
21. July 2007
Alienation and dissociation reinforce each other to create a deep sense of powerlessness.
Continue reading...Can Psychotherapy Change the World?,
1. June 2007
Gloria Steinem, James Hillman and Michael Ventura believe that psychotherapy can heal a crisis-ridden world. Are they on to something, or are they leading us up a blind alley?
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- Engels and the WHO Report
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
- Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
- Class, Health and Health Care
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (13)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (9)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate (4)
- Machismo at Work (4)
- War in the House of Labor (4)
- Appeal from Gaza - Please Help Us!
- Blood Money
- In Palestine, not even the birds are free
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Engels and the WHO Report
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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