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Review Of The Child Savers, a book demystifying the 'polytricks' of reducing...

"The problem with children, and with working class children in particualr, was that they refused to be integrated smoothly into an oppressive society. ...The child savers turned political problems into...

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some anti-copyright political cartoons/general critical psych art i have done

Here are a bunch of art images i made. They are all "anti-copyright" and may be used by anti-authoritarians and others critical of psychiatry and authority in general; any other use, please contact...

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Visionary art to possibly inspire

This angle on things may interest the strategically challenged (i.e. "consumers" and survivors of authoritarian abuse who want to make a clean break from controls on our collective alienation); my own...

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Who Gets To Decide?

One group of humans get to decide, another is supposed to just follow orders, and trust that the other group will make the right decisions. One group gets heavily funded and carried aloft on the...

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Beating ourselves up inside our heads and perceiving reality

Two videos from youtube, one "terrible" music but with a deep message, the other, much clearer. Talking about perceiving reality and how most of us have been separated, and trained to "beat ourselves...

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How psychiatry and other social science keep you "under wraps"

I'll make this short, hopefully.read more

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So-called "Crazymakers" are the scapegoats of brave new world in The Artist's...

This post takes on the curiously popularized notion--in Julie Cameron's book The Artist's Way--of the categorical 'badness'of people she (and her "expert" ilk) seek to reduce and label, and then...

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Food for thought: Theodore Roszak and Aldous Huxley demystifying social...

Searching via scroogle.org today I stumbled across some excellent excerpts of two books which are VERY hard to find these days (unless, of course, you have the cash to buy from amazon or a bookstore's...

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Neat cartoons challenging big pharma! (made by another artist!)

Check out this neat index of political cartoons I found today while browsing a site I've long enjoyed!read more

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Old art that I should have posted here a long time ago..!

Two black and white drawings I made a few years ago seeking to demystify a way in which people are fooled time and again.read more

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Video: "Perceptions of Reality"--Indigenous wisdom 101 with John Trudell at...

Here, if this works, is the infamous John Trudell speaking about being crazy and using our creative intelligence to escape the ways our minds are colonized. Deep and inspiring for those of us easily...

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Valuable insights from David Ingleby, re: "Ideology and the Human Sciences"

"We should recognize that the infiltration of value judgements into 'objective' terminology is not just loose talk, a psychological weakness of scientists; to classify actions which are seen as a...

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From Judi Chamberlin: The Ex-Patients' Movement: Where We've Been and Where...

cemental stealth (aka mental "health") survivors articulate ideas like "sane chauvanism" and "mentalism" to denote oppressive ways of seeing folks having difficulties in living. Judi Chamberlin,...

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A letter to my ageing psychology-expert father

A letter to my father backing him up radically, while coaching the idea of seeking to "hold our own" --with our intuitive champion excellence-- amongst and in the context of a heavily-propagandized...

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Ad Parody sheds crucial light on big pharma hype

"He isn't sophisticated enough to defend himself against the ideologies and weapons of those who incarcerate and indoctrinate him. And if we act quickly, we can ensure that his nascent rebellion will...

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Suggestions on dealing with professional patronizers, with Diane Divoky and...

taking aim at the usual aim takers, these excerpts give ammo to the underdog and thier fledgling communities; and not merely for reform distraction--for authentic liberation strategy!read more

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indigenous wisdom teaches about indepth dis-ease

Time to unsettle ourselves from the enforced soma consumption of our owners! And what better way than to hear it from the very people who were never allowed to fully be a part of the dis-eased...

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Thomas Szasz and Right-wing labeling

Character assasination of Szasz and a knee-jerk reaction by Liberals to silence all discussion get a airing out in this post!read more

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Anne C. Woodlen, crucial voice!

A survivor of psychiatry, now a practicing psychologist, goes to bat demystifying authoritarian psychiatrists and their internalized values, along with other excelling insights!read more

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The War On Kids, links and

A whallop of diversity mixed in a bunch of excellent in-full film links with critical commentaryread more

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Get an insight into the psychology of the social manager mind!

Two films to get the ball rolling in understanding the mind of the uncritical implementers of social control, regardless of approach (I.e. professional aggression against those labeled...

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Bradley Manning, et al, getting Oppositional Defiant Disorder Label: What can...

Apparently no one's said it yet, but Bradley Manning, this generation's Daniel Ellsberg, may well be on the road to psychiatric character assasination, and possibly even quietly (?) labeled "ODD"...

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Two powerful films expose and demystify social sci poly-tricks

"...we learn about how MANY peer-reviewed academic journals are, as a matter of policy (apparently), censored from the general public's knowledge, not to mention the general population of persons going...

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Alternet has interesting discussions available on topic

A provocative article published by alternet gets blasted by a curious amount of critical thought! Keep up the good work!read more

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article on decolonizing ourselves: My comments on Indigenous excellence and...

We have been stupidized. Some believe that they are "more capable" than the rest of us, but the truth is, they have been highly privileged. They do not think through why some humans would be allowed to...

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Powerful article from a blogger: No More Fake News: College students easy...

Psychiatry targets college students for destruction Sep22 by Jon Rappoport http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/psychiatry-targets-college-students-for-destruction/read more

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The psychiatrization of our children (from decolonization.org)

full title: The psychiatrization of our children: an autoethnographic narrative of perpetuating First Nations genocide through ‘benevolent' institutions Academia at its finest, for those able to usread...

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labeling shell games and cult-ure for the uncomprehending parent

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Dangerously insightful movie review dept.: The Hangover

...Okay, case in point, how about the character Alan. Still living with his parents (BAD SLAVE! So WHY isn't that allowed, why are we not to think that through?? Because of Rollback Cult-ure, I say;...

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Narcissistic parents or people expressing symptoms of their believed reality??

Imagine if you were a german in nazi germany and you were open about wanting to help the gypsies who were being systematically demonized everywhere (as a pre-cursor to being rounded up and killed)....

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