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by yibberish 1349 days ago
this article reframes the recent trend in psychiatric into psychedelics in a bad light:

> Understanding the undulating history of psychiatric hype and crisis is crucial today as the profession builds toward its next trend: psychedelics, already heralded as a “renaissance” and psychiatry’s “next frontier.” These two histories demonstrate that the academic and corporate pursuit of such hype [...] resulting in significant psychological and bodily harm.

this articles ignores the unfounded claim: that the real purpose of the APA was not quite to heal, not after ww2.

> We also have not had any significant breakthroughs in treatment.

They even say this, which is as nazi social control as it gets.

> psychiatrists in the 1970s who pathologized Black activism as “psychosis.”

oh, and what Bush said in the 90s? I suppose all that went into marketing, and later on (i.e. nowadays) into 'engagement' metrics for online content and so on. so, as I said, they're not trying to heal you, they're trying to make a buck same as everybody else in a capitalist society/marketplace.

now all that scientific progress is being used in an information war. as war crazy as it gets.