The book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker demonstrates how scientific data can be manipulated and misinterpreted and can have serious unintended consequences and problematic outcomes
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The legality of nonconsensual psychiatry bewilders me. Nonconsensual psychiatry is legal in many circumstances.
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Thomas Szasz wrote a great deal about the history of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.
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Read the book Suicide Prohibition by Dr. Szasz.
Suicide in public should be illegal, just like intimately bodily functions are illegal in public.
Nonconsensual psychiatry is torture.
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Do any self identified psychiatric survivors share stories with you?
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Is psychiatry (which does not treat objective medical diseases) causing a lot of early deaths by psychiatric drug side effects creating a lot of objective medical disease?
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If you support nonconsensual psychiatry and psychiatric coercion, you should not be using language like "crazy". It might be sanist. Wikipedia has an article on sanism.
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Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote about the unintended consequences of carelessly using "literalized metaphors".
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