‘Comrade Doctor’ is an in-depth article by Howard Slater on David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ from Datacide 16 and a critical response to Christoph Fringeli’s review of Peter Sedgewick’s ‘Psycho-Politics’. He examines the tension between sedate rationality and radical psychiatry, contrasting Laing’s romanticism with David Cooper’s push for politicizing madness to challenge capitalist norms and social alienation.
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Mystification: ‘This term, mystification, itself mystified, entered the field of psychotechnology to specifically account for indirect communicative manoevres in families and other micro-groups.’
No, there are no techniques of demystification. There is no human technology.
Read More“The problem is not really defining a political position […] but to imagine and to bring about new schemas of
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For a left that rejects the party-form and in times in which the ‘soviet’ model of workers councils became less viable, the question of organization has proved problematic. Guattari, a life-long member of militant groups from the 60s onwards, never failed to address this issue of how we can ‘belong together’. This short text offers the rudiments of Guattari’s response as informed by his work as a maverick psychoanalyst and his ideas of a micro-politics that upsets long-held views of what it is to be an ‘individual.’
Read MorePeter Sedgwick Psycho Politics – Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and the Future of Mass Psychiatry Foreword by Helen Spandler, Robert
Read MoreThis article is written with its practical use value in mind. It is about Psychiatry, and that means about psychiatric
Read More(Perseus Publishing, 1999, paperback edition 2000, ISBN 0-7382-0348-3) A review of a currently up-to-date and very useful handbook about the
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