Psychology of the private individual - Marxist Group
A critique of bourgeois consciousness.
The Mental Patients Union, 1973
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 21 2017 13:44
Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, written by Past Tense.
Anarchists in social work: known to the authorities
A compendium of anarchist writings on social work and work in mental health services, published in 2004.
The Cultural Hegemony of “Mental Health”
In this guest article Dr Bruce Scott challenges the way the “mental health” system and its institutions have been co-opted and actively promote capitalism. This system, driven by a profit motive, rather than a desire to benefit patients, has produced “fear and submission to an ideology which controls and mystifies the masses”.
Resisting DWP Pyschocoercion 15TH JULY 2016
Benefit sanctions, workfare, cuts to disability benefits, cuts to benefits for migrants, cuts to benefits for young people…… To the long list of vicious government attacks on benefits claimants, we must now add ….pyschocoercion. The Tribe of Moles thanks Dr Bruce Scott for his illuminating article on this sinister DWP strategy. Encouragingly he concludes by highlighting the resistance which is underway.
Anti State, Anti Capital, Anti Psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is the belief that the psychiatric system is a system of social control masquerading behind made-up science. The Marxist anti-psychiatry movement failed because of it's overly intellectual focus and the inability of its key thinkers to put theory into practice. However, with mental health very much on the political agenda, there are lessons that can be learned from the work of R D Laing and David Cooper.
Rhythms: third movement
Submitted by sometimes explode on Sep 8 2014 15:11
Second part of investigation into rhythmic understanding of madness and our corporeal bodily existence. Runs a little longer than the usual libcom article.
Authoritarianism, work and therapy
Submitted by sometimes explode on Jul 14 2014 15:13
Reaction to the news that the UK Government have been discussing linking employment support payments to undergoing mental health assessments among the psychiatric population. This short article has a particular focus on the authoritarianism behind this move.
Capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The two volumes of Deleuze and Guattari's influential text: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980).
Rhythms: second movement
Submitted by sometimes explode on Jun 3 2014 20:07
Second post on the subject of rhythms. Begins to explore the idea that madness may be an experience of corporeal rhythms, and that power operates by imposing its rhythms of its own.
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