Psychiatric capitalism, also psychiatric neoliberalism, is a term used to refer to the idea majority of mental health services, such as psychology and psychiatry, actually works for capitalism and neoliberalism, creating mental illnesses in order to increase the capitalism inside mental health. The term is heavily used to refer to what DSM and NIMH actually do.
"Psychiatric capitalism is a serious problem, it lead into things like psychiatrizationism, psychiatrism and scientific centrism."
"Anarcho-scientism would be good to counter psychiatric capitalism and scientific centrism... The problem is how to do it."
"Anarcho-scientism would be good to counter psychiatric capitalism and scientific centrism... The problem is how to do it."
by Full Monteirism January 24, 2021