Susan Rosenthal #conspiracy susanrosenthal.com

To sustain itself, the ruling class erects institutions of control backed by ideas that justify the way things are. One of these institutions is modern medicine, which developed as a system of diagnosing and treating individuals, not their social conditions.

Medical ideology assumes that individuals malfunction for reasons that have nothing to do with the social world. The physician treats the injured worker, not the unsafe workplace that injured her.

Mental illness presents special problems for capitalism. The fact that social conditions generate mental distress is so obvious that a psychiatric industry is required to convince us otherwise.

Psychiatry presents itself as a branch of medicine that diagnoses and treats mental illness in the same way that other branches of medicine diagnose and treat physical illness. This claim does not hold up under scrutiny.

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Mental distress takes many forms, all of which create misery and none of which is a disease. Science has yet to detect biological markers in the brains of people with different forms of mental distress that are not present in people without those forms of mental distress. This is true even for schizophrenia, a disabling form of mental distress that is widely assumed to be genetically-based. The evidence says otherwise.

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Psychiatry is not a medical science; it is pseudoscience - ideology disguised as science. Psychiatry developed to meet capitalism's need for social control and psychiatrists' need for paying customers.

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We know what's wrong. A few people accumulate wealth and power at the expense of everyone else.

What's the treatment? Capitalism must be replaced with a socialist society that puts human needs first.

Who can deliver the medicine? The global working-class majority.

What's holding us back? Lack of clarity and organization.

I don't expect this diagnosis will ever appear in the DSM.

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