Mad In America: Science, Psychiatry And Social Justice

This week on MIA Radio, we continue our series of discussions with Doctor Lee Coleman. In previous podcasts, we have discussed Lee’s views as a critical psychiatrist and the role of psychiatry in the courtroom. This time, we turn our attention to the need for action to address the inherent power held by psychiatry and how society might respond. In this episode we discuss: How language has the power to trigger associations and can lead us to not question theories that are presented to us as facts. How we have come to equate psychiatric ‘treatment’ with interventions in other areas of medicine. The deception behind the names of the drugs used in psychiatry such as ‘antidepressants’ or ‘antipsychotics’. That society may well be blinded by language to the critical issues of the use of force and the relationship between the law and psychiatry. That, ultimately, society demands that psychiatry play the role that it does and therefore we need a societal and political response. That any movement to address the domin