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![instagram: thebooksmartbimbo, the villianisation of antipsychiatry.
perhaps the most powerful and frustrating form of psychiatric propaganda today is the pervasive myth that those who critique psychiatry are bigoted, ignorant, or anti-science. people with psych labels are villainised for speaking out about their trauma and psychiatric oppression. we are regularly attacked by people who label us as enemies of the "mentally ill", when WE are the very people they claim to be protecting.
why it came to be: in the 1970s, the antipsychiatry movement was gaining traction and psychiatry was panicking. then, something convenient happened. L ron hubbard (the founder of scientology) spoke out about psychiatric abuse. psychistry seized this to associate all critiques of psychiatry with scientology, painting proponents as crazy, anti-science, cult followers and conspiracy theorists. this effort was successful at diminishing public support for psychiatric survivors, an effect still felt today.
"[psychiatry] could publicly dismiss criticism of the medical model and psychiatric drugs with a wave of the hand, deciding it as nonsense that arose from members of a deeply unpopular cult, rather than criticism that arose from their own research." - robert whittaker, anatomy of an epidemic.
what it looks like:
• erasing lived experience: assuming all thise who question psychiatry are "neurotypical"/non-patients
• coopting social justice: using language of resistance in pro-psych materials
• blaming us for saneism: "you shouldn't talk about your negative experiences, you're stigmatising therapy/meds"
• us vs them: positioning all those who criticise psychiatry as enemies of psych patients
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