Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
May 3rd, 2025
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatry—no matter how harsh—that can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its […]
