by Claude Steiner Radical Psychiatry holds that all functional psychiatric difficulties are forms of alienation resulting from the mystified oppression of people who are isolated from each other. People’s alienation is the result of power abuse and is therefore a political matter. Any person in the practice of psychiatry (soul healing) becomes involved in the personal politics of those […]
Radical Psychiatry
Radical Psychiatry Manifesto
1969 Radical Psychiatry Manifesto, by Claude Steiner This document was written on the occasion of the 1969 American Psychiatric Association conference in San Francisco. It was a reaction to psychiatric practices of that time especially the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness and pro government intervention in draft resistance. (see also Principles of Radical Psychiatry)
