Metapsychiatry

A more clinically focused cousin of metapsychology, examining the foundations and power structures of psychiatric practice itself. It questions the biological reductionism of modern psychiatry, the ethical implications of involuntary treatment, the influence of Big Pharma, and the line between healing and social control. It’s psychiatry undergoing its own therapy session, confronting its own history of abuses, theoretical dogmas, and role as an agent of normative social order.

Example: The antipsychiatry movement, which critiques the use of diagnoses like schizophrenia as tools for stigmatizing and controlling non-conformists, is a form of Metapsychiatry. It forces the field to ask: "Are we treating illness, or are we policing the boundaries of acceptable thought and behavior?"

Metapsychiatry by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Metapsychiatry

The systematic study of psychiatry itself—a second-order discipline that takes psychiatric theory, practice, and institutions as its objects of inquiry. Metapsychiatry asks foundational questions about psychiatric knowledge and practice: How are diagnostic categories constructed and validated? What assumptions underlie different treatment approaches? How do social, cultural, and economic factors shape psychiatric care? What are the limits of psychiatric explanation? How do power relations operate within psychiatric institutions? It also examines the history of psychiatry, the structure of psychiatric theories, the relationship between psychiatry and other healing traditions, and the ethical dimensions of psychiatric practice. Metapsychiatry is psychiatry reflecting on itself—the discipline's capacity to examine its own assumptions, practices, and effects. It's what enables psychiatry to ask not just "what works?" but "what do we mean by 'works'?" and "for whom?" and "at what cost?"

Example: "Her metapsychiatry analysis examined how the concept of 'schizophrenia' has changed across decades and cultures—not because the illness changed, but because diagnostic frameworks changed, shaped by science, culture, and institutional needs. Psychiatry studying itself reveals its own contingency."

Metapsychiatry by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".

A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.

Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.

"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."

Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004

schmegegge 

Yiddish slang word meaning bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, crock of shit or hot air.

I don't buy the schmegegge about Morty sleeping with Moira.
His version of the story was pure schmegegge.
The whole schmegegge was made up to get Liz a little bit of attention.

schmegegge by budsbabe February 1, 2008

eye bleach 

Looking or experiencing something nice after witnessing something horrid like a disgusting gif or a disturbing video. Typically used as eye bleach are nice images of whatever makes the disturbed person happy.

"Bleach my eyes! Why is that woman's face ripped off!?"
*Looks up images of puppies and kittens.*
"That's good eye bleach."

eye bleach by Rini2012 November 29, 2016

Stroad

Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.

Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!

Stroad by hammersklavier February 21, 2012