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Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
This week we sat down with our old comrade and actual Psychiatrist, Dr Byron, to talk about mental health, the left, and how TikTok is ruining everyones brains.
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (review for relevant book)
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/03/psychiatric-hegemony-marxist-theory-mental-illness/
What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illness
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/anti-psychiatry-movement-mental-illness-psychological-suffering
Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do That
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/psychiatry-history-trauma-politics-medicine-mental-health
This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers (NYT discussing the WISE Teens Study)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/teenagers-mental-health-treatment.html
The functions of the mental health system under capitalism https://joannamoncrieff.com/2022/03/28/the-functions-of-the-mental-health-system-under-capitalism/
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