Psychiatry’s Rightwing and Progressive Bigotries: How Each Enables the Megamachine
January 3rd, 2026
In the last century, whether the brand of the autonomy-stripping megamachine has been German Nazi fascism, Soviet totalitarian communism, or U.S. corporate capitalism, psychiatry has been an enabler of the megamachine—more later on psychiatry’s role in each of these systems.
The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
September 5th, 2024
In the U.S. in 2022, 49,476 people died by suicide, and there were approximately 1.6 million suicide attempts. Not included in suicide statistics is the even more common U.S. “death of despair” of drug overdose death, numbering 107,941 in 2022. While most of us are not attempting to kill our pain in a manner that […]
