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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

by Dan Nelson

The birth of psychiatry coincided with the rise of industrial capitalism, and the two have been intertwined ever since. Our systems have been so consistently damaging that a branch of “medicine” has developed to treat those afflicted by what might be termed “industrial sickness.” Psychiatry, under the guise of science, developed frameworks to identify and manage individuals who deviated from the norms established by industrial society.

By labeling these deviations as mental illnesses, psychiatry helped to neutralize threats to the system. The individual was no longer a person with legitimate grievances but a patient requiring treatment. In that way, psychiatry sides with the oppressors while helping the oppressed better endure their oppression.

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