antipsychiatry

A critique of bourgeois consciousness.

Historical information about the Mental Patients Union, formed in London in 1973 to oppose psychiatric oppression, written by Past Tense.

A compendium of anarchist writings on social work and work in mental health services, published in 2004.

In this guest article Dr Bruce Scott challenges the way the “mental health” system and its institutions have been co-opted and actively promote…

Benefit sanctions, workfare, cuts to disability benefits, cuts to benefits for migrants, cuts to benefits for young people…… To the long list of…

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…

Second part of investigation into rhythmic understanding of madness and our corporeal bodily existence. Runs a little longer than the usual…

Reaction to the news that the UK Government have been discussing linking employment support payments to undergoing mental health assessments…

The two volumes of Deleuze and Guattari's influential text: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand…

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…

Second part of two piece article on the production of dependent bodies. Introduces the idea of vulnerability and what could be called pharmaco-syndicalism, or autonomous pharmacological practice (and idea that will be returned to elsewhere).

Short article exploring the idea of magical voluntarism and how it relates to questions of organisation.