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Someone here called me 'mentally ill' :
Psychology/psychiatry have
become an increasingly powerful component of capitalist ideology, ruling ideas that endorse exploitation and sabotage struggles against oppression. This psychology circulates way beyond colleges and clinics, and different versions of psychology as ideology are now to be found nearly everywhere in capitalist society. The dominant norms and values of the ruling classes are reflected in the psychiatric discourse on human behaviour and the workings of the mind. Consequently, the psy-professions are responsible for facilitating the maximisation of profit for the ruling classes while individualising the social and economic conditions of the workers. The mental health system seeks to normalise the fundamentally oppressive relations of capitalism by focusing on the individual—rather than the society—as the site of change -- the individual is seen as pathological and in need of adjustment through “treatment” options such as drugs, ECT, and therapy. ECT and some of the drugs are brain damaging etc...
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