Rise Up/Fight Back
Selected Writings of an Antipsychiatry Activist
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Publisher Description
The book features a radical perspective on psychiatry and the “mental health system” informed by an antipsychiatry perspective and anti-oppression analysis. In the Introduction, antipsychiatry is defined as active and radical resistance to psychiatry - antipsychiatry is not an intellectual or “academic exercise.”
This book should have wide appeal – not only for psychiatric survivors, antipsychiatry and social justice activists, but also for psychology and sociology students, psychologists and sociologists, dissident psychiatrists, “mental health” lawyers, patient advocates, and anybody concerned about the power of psychiatry and its threats to our human rights, health, and lives.
Customer Reviews
The Whole Dirty Truth
First off, to counter certain unfounded attacks, Mr. Weitz nor any of his North American associates have ever been involved with Scientology, and in fact, when the threat of Scientology first appeared he wrote into the Articles of Incorporation of his primary organization a clause barring any such association. Mr. Weitz's book is a compelling expose of the decades of abuse perpetrated by "mentalhealthists" , who have long abused their power under the cloke of "caregiving". Thanks to activists like Mr. Weitz, the psych system has improved over the decades, but that's not to say that the present system's guise of progressivity vindicates the years of "therapeutic" torture involving unneccesary forced incarceration, shock treatment, lobotomy and over-drugging, despite the lack of actual proof of efficacy. Some of these are still in use today, more as a form of social suppression than true therapy. It's easy to pick up the banner of a trendy cause, but Mr. Weitz is the Real Deal!