What was Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization?
An interview with sociologist and historian of psychiatry Andrew Scull about the history and legacy of psychiatric deinstitutionalization.
Psychiatry
What's in Our Second Print Issue, “Deinstitutionalized”
What does it mean to live in a deinstitutionalized society today, and why do contemporary institutions so often fail to make up for what has been lost? Our second print issue, “Deinstitutionalized,” seeks to find out.
The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity
On the political circumstances behind rigid, brittle identity constructions.
Depressed Losers on the Verge of Destruction
The depressive’s neurons are appropriately withering, along with the possibility of a human future.
The Medicalization of Psychiatry
Patients are reduced to containers for diagnoses and psychiatrists to abstract functionaries.
The Phenomenon of Agitation in the Psychiatric Milieu
In the hallucinatory process, we see the collapse of the world turn into a system of reference.
