Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend
July 12th, 2025
Many people from very different groups do not like establishment psychiatry. Some of them are my friends, however, some of them belong to authoritarian groups that I dislike as much as I dislike establishment psychiatry. Who are enemies of establishment psychiatry that are not my friends? What kind of dealings—if any—does it make sense to […]
Curious “Anti-Authoritarian” Definitions and Divides
September 5th, 2019
For most of us—excepting possibly Mussolini, Trump, and other bully boasters—the word authoritarian is a pejorative. In contrast, many of us want to define ourselves and our heroes as anti-authoritarians, and this has resulted in some curious definitions of that term. The American Heritage Dictionary defines authoritarianism as “characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to […]
