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Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened? - Mad In America

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The moderately enlightened acknowledge some of psychiatry’s failures but desperately attempt to preserve the institution of psychiatry.

P sychiatry has historically promoted dogma—not science—and dogma tends to be boring for freethinkers who can smell its odor even before they can deconstruct it. The challenge then is this: How can psychiatry be examined in a novel way that might intrigue freethinkers and critical thinkers of science, philosophy, politics, and history who would not ordinarily read a book about psychiatry because they are turned off by dogma? A fresh approach to examining psychiatry’s crisis of failure that I thought might interest them is utilizing the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza along with historian Jonatha

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