Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
Mad in America
MAY 3, 2025
F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatryno matter how harshthat can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its existential legitimacy, and it is not tolerated.
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