Psychiatric Hegemony
“Psychiatric Hegemony” challenges the social domination of biological psychiatry.
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Behavioural Genetics: The ‘Respectable’ Face of Racism
Why challenge capitalism if human misery is rooted in our biology or defective genes?
Marxism and Psychology
Biological psychiatry treats mental distress as an individual defect. Marxism treats it as the inevitable consequence of capitalist oppression.
Madness, Power, and the Media
“Madness, Power, and the Media” explains how images of mental distress and ‘madness’ reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and also through symptoms of sickness and distress.
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