Topic on Talk:Psychiatry

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The very fact that it is used in states which you regard as Socialist should disprove many of your claims.

Wisconcom

Uh, what? How does the use of Psychiatry disprove my claim that Psychiatry is unscientific? Many frauids use psuedosciences to scam or make people feel better, that doesn't make psuedosciences scientific.

How can psychiatry be a "Big-pharma" conspiracy by the bourgeoisie to drug the workers into submission when it is used in states without a bourgeoisie are "Big-pharma"?

Wisconcom

This question is loaded with emotionally charged terms. I never stated that Psychiatry was a big-pharma conspiracy. If I stated that it was a bourgeois tool of oppression; then I redact that statement, as it's not inherently bourgeois. It manifests in capitalism, not just bourgeois capitalism.

Yes, Psychiatry is indeed used by the bourgeoisie to drug the workers into submission; one could argue that Psychiatry is a tool of the Ideological State Apparatus formed by the state as a need to quietly oppress the oppressed class.

Anyway, the counter argument is simple: Psychiatry is used by the proletarian state to oppress the bourgeoisie and counter-revolutionarries.

Also, such a claim requires more than a reddit post, I am afraid.Wisconcom

I was not using a reddit post as evidence; I was using it as a summary for my arguments that I would make against the notion that Psychiatry is a science.