No one freely chooses to work all their life to produce capital to make others rich. The worker must be robbed of the freedom to say no, to leave, or to change the system. To maintain this social arrangement everyone, including the worker, must do their part.
“Psychiatric Hegemony” challenges the social domination of biological psychiatry.
Biological psychiatry treats mental distress as an individual defect. Marxism treats it as the inevitable consequence of capitalist oppression.
Sigmund Freud began his career as an advocate of the oppressed then switched sides to support the oppressors.
Corporate America is awash in the cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and also through symptoms of sickness and distress.
Socialism is the Best Medicine