Psychiatriarchy, Psychiatric Gaze and Mentalism

The Psychiatriarchy, The Psychiatric Gaze and Mentalism

By Gavin Bushe

MLIS, B.A. (Hons), Cert

Since the philosopher Aristotle in particular, philosophy has developed a distinct materialist outlook.  This means that the ideas in a human being’s mind are a reflection of thoughts derived from external, real and concrete material stimuli.  Simply put we know that a dog is a dog because we reflect in our minds the real entity that is “a dog”.  Otherwise we could not know what a dog is.  Since Karl Marx materialist philosophy has been described as a summing-up of material experience.  The social order in which human minds find themselves in Ireland in the 2o^th and 21^st Centuries AD is a “capitalist political-economy”.  Therefore the ideas in human beings’ minds are a sum of life realities within Irish Capitalism.

Psychiatry is the treatment of minds that do not accord to incumbent understandings of the social order in a society.  In Ireland today that means the Capitalist Social Order.  The Psychiatriarchy is the term I use to refer to the set of socio-political relations that operate among the social order to reinforce and perpetuate it.  Therefore it is the Irish Capitalist Psychiatriarchy of the 21^st Century in particular.  The Psychiatriarchy is simply the congealed, solidified, crystallised set of thoughts of the incumbent economic beneficiaries of the social order with the collectivity of socio-political activities that the beneficiaries undertake in order to enforce and reinforce their benefits.

As a human who dares to think differently from The Psychiatriarchy you must be prepared to receive its sanction for social authority does not like to be questioned.  The main tool of sanction that The Psychiatriarchy has to curb, repress, suppress, oppress, cut-off, alienate, etc. the non-conformist thinkers is the demonization process of the Psychiatric Gaze with its Mentalisms, or ways-of-looking at “mentally ill” people.  These combined are a tool to negate and characteristically reject any non-conformist thinkers within the social order.  I speak in particular of the Psychiatriarchy of Western Capitalism.  Western Capitalism has constructed the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals 1 to 5 (DSM I – V), in order to alienate and justify the social control of non-conformist thinkers.  What it has done is destroy many human beings’ minds so that the economic wealth might be pooled disproportionately in favour of higher-ranking social order incumbent beneficiaries as against others at a time when wage-labour is permanently over-supplied to the economy.  This it does over and over again.  The only reply by the oppressed is the revolutionary overthrow of the social order and the permanent repudiation of The Psychiatriarchy.  I propose: Liberty, Equality, Society!

 Universal Guidance for People Seeking Truth 

Guiding them from Ignorance and Offering Basic Protection from Spiritual Entities

The Noble Qur’an, Chapters 1, 112, 113, 114.

English Meaning of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 1, The Opening, “Al-Fatihah”.

“I seek God’s protection from Satan the Rejected,”

(1)    “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

(2)    “All Praise belongs to Allah Alone, Lord of All the Worlds.”

(3)    “The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

(4)    “Master of the Day of Judgement.”

(5)    “Thee Alone do we worship and Thee Alone do we ask for help.”

(6)    “Guide us to the straight path.”

(7)    “The Path of those upon whom Thou has bestowed Thy favour,”

“And not those who have angered you,”

“Or gone astray.”

Romanised Transliteration of the Arabic Noble Qur’an,

Chapter 1, The Opening, “Al-Fatihah”.

“A’outhu billahi minashaytanir Rajeem,”

(1)    “Bismillah hir Rahmanir Raheem.”

(2)    “Alhamdulilahi Rabill alameen.”

(3)    “Ar-Rahmanir Raheem.”

(4)    “Maliki Yaumideen.”

(5)    “Iyaka Nabudu wa Iyaka Nastiyeen”

(6)    “Ihdi nassiratul mustaqueem.”

(7)    “Siratul ladeena an-amta Alayhim”

“Ghayril maqdubi Alayhim”

“Wa la dah-leen.”

English Meaning of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 112: The Sincerity - “Al-Iklas”.

“I seek God’s protection from Satan the Rejected,”

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

(1)    “Say, ‘He is Allah, the One.”

(2)    “Allah, the Eternal, Absolute.”

(3)    “He begets not, nor is He begotten.”

(4)    “And there is none like unto Him.” 

Romanised Transliteration of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 112:  The Sincerity - “Al-Iklas”

“A’outhu billahi minashaytanir Rajeem,”

“Bismillah hir Rahmanir Raheem.”

(1)    “Kulhu Allahu Ahad.”

(2)    “Allahu Samad.”

(3)    “Lam Yalid wa Lam Yulad.”

(4)    “Wa lam yakulahu kufuwan Ahad.”

English Meaning of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 113: The Dawn - “Al-Falaq”

“I seek God’s protection from Satan the Rejected,”

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

(1)    “Say, ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn.”

(2)    “From evil of created things.”

(3)    “From the evil of darkness as it overspreads.”

(4)    “From the evil of those who blow on the knots of mutual relations.”

(5)    “And from the evil of the envier when he envies.”

Romanised Transliteration of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 113: The Dawn - “Al-Falaq”

“A’outhu billahi minashaytanir rajeem,”

“Bismillah hir Rahmanir Raheem.”

(1)    “Kul a’outhu birrabil falaq.”

(2)    “Minshari ma khalaq.”

(3)    “Wa min sharri ghaysiqin ihda wakab.”

(4)    “Wa min sharrin nafatati fil uqad.”

(5)    “Wa sharri hasidin ihda hasad.” 

English Meaning of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter  114:  Mankind -“An-Nas”.

“I seek God’s protection from Satan the Rejected,”

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

(1)    “Say, ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of Mankind.”

(2)    “The King of Mankind.”

(3)    “The God of Mankind.”

(4)    “From the mischief of the sneaking whisperer who withdraws after his whisper.”

(5)    “The same who whispers mischief into the heart of mankind from among jinn and men.

Romanised Transliteration of the Arabic Noble Qur’an.

Chapter 114: Mankind - “An-Nas”

“A’outhu billahi minashaytanir rajeem,”

“Bismillah hir Rahmanir Raheem.”

(1)    “Kul, A’outhu birrabin Nas.”

(2)    “Malikin Nas.”

(3)    “Ilahin Nas.”

(4)    “Minsharrin waswasil kan Nas.”

(5)    “Alazee waswasifi suddurinass min al jinn natiwannas.”

Simply Put: The Cause of and Solution to Mental Health Problems from Within an Islamic Communist Bibliotherapy

by

Gavin Bushe

MLIS, B.A. (Hons), Cert.

Psychiatric Survivor and Expert by Experience: 1996-2019 AD

The Causes of Mental Health Problems within the Social Order: Alienation, Ignorance, Poverty, Stigma, Exploitation, Oppression, Suppression, Repression, Social Exclusion

The Social Order

The social order of any society is always an incumbent social order.  Within any society there are people of various levels of social standing.  Life occurs within society and mental health problems are a social signal that there are life problems within it.  People who suffer from mental health problems often understand that there is something wrong with life in society.

Many great men and women have reflected on these problems and produced understandings that aim to resolve what is at the same time problematic for them and problematic within the societies that they live in.

While there are a great many of these great men and women, I regard the following two people as having contributed the most to the social analysis and the resolution of very similar social problems: they are Karl Marx the Founder of Communism and Muhammad the Prophet of Islam.

Alienation

Some people within any given societies do become separated from the social body to such an extent that they are regarded as alien to their fellows.  The process through which this occurs is called alienation.  This means that they are divorced from and disturbed by social relations around them to the point that they no longer know who they are at that time and are regarded as foreign by those social relations.  In Marx’s classical description this process occurs mainly for workers under the capitalists’ social order.  This type of alienated human being is also created by the psychiatric social order which is a parallel regime of human control within capitalism.

Ignorance

People who have become alienated by society often are in the dark about why they are alienated.  Psychiatrists refer to this condition as lack of insight.  The solution from both Founders is to reflect upon your own relations to your kind.  This is the movement from ignorance to understanding.  For Marx this occurs within an historical setting.  For Muhammad this occurs within a prophetic tradition within an historical setting.  Both great men have produced a far-reaching range of texts that aim to diagnose in general terms the overall problems of human beings in societies.  The movement from ignorance to understanding eventually leads to enlightenment.  There are many developments such as this.  However the search for understanding is accelerated by the writings of great men and women and both Marx’s and Muhammad’s manifestations are comprehensive of human reality in the past, present, and future.

There are other understandings of human reality but only Marx and Muhammad claim to have discovered the complete assessment.  This is why I recommend these mens’ guidances.

Poverty

Lack of needs:  Just as a plant will not grow very well without the sustenance that it requires for its growth and development, so too will a human being fail to advance without the things he or she needs.  Poverty is in at least two forms: mental and physical.

In order for a human being to grow he or she must initially receive mental and physical sustenance from another source outside of him or her.  With this sustenance he or she will advance.

According to both Marx and Muhammad the incumbent social order is organised in such a way historically as to prioritise the needs of some over others. Marx calls this class society.  Muhammad calls this pagan morality.  In both cases there is an overlap between class societies and pagan moralities.  In most cases the upper or ruling classes prioritise their needs over and above the lower classes.  At the same time pagan morality which focuses on falsity nearly always operates within the upper and ruling class levels as a commonly re-occuring tendency.

This is why poverty is a scourge for people with mental health concerns.  Without wealth they become dependent on the wealthy.  In this case they might not grow as a human being.

Stigma

Social realities can often create situations where some people in a society are elevated while others are lowered.  The tendency is binary and often self-perpetuating over time. People with stigma are usually maintained in that stigma by those people who by default are relatively elevated by comparison.  Stigma is essentially social taint.  Its origins are historical for many reasons.  The main reason is that within historical societies there have always been, since primitive communism, a social reality where one major class held down and oppressed a subordinate class by succession.  The stigma idea means that this group is better than that group.  It exists in almost every part of society as a consequence of resources being controlled by some who are therefore rulers in relation to others.  Those others are therefore ruled via a dependency relationship.  The stigma is an idea that magnifies the inequality and seems to justify it.

Exploitation

Beyond the subordination of some by others in society, the social life for humans is necessarily socio-economic.  Within a socio-economic relationship that is competitive and controlled by rulers who seek advantage, exploitation emerges by which the economically powerful extract more and more resources from the economically weak.  This strange reality gives rise to pagan morality in the exploiters.  It also causes harm to the exploited.

Oppression

To overbear upon another human being is the expression of social oppression.  This takes on a hideous form when combined with wealth inequality, social consensus, and social acceptance. 

Suppression

Often human beings who are oppressed fight back against their oppressors.  The oppressors in their turn clamp down upon the resisters.  The interaction between suppressers and resisters leads to conflicts, clashes, and riots.

Repression

After the conflicts take on an elaborate development organised social forces within the incumbent social order combine to systematically put-down resistance.

Social Exclusion

Once the dust has settled for a time on an historical reality composed of ruling class domination and pagan morality, history shows that the subordinated groups and individuals are pushed into zones of society where they are effectively excluded from the contemporary life of their more elevated, or contrariwise, less stigmatised (non) associates.  This social stratification is called combined and unequal development.  It threatens to endure permanently unless remedial action is taken in order to include the social aliens into the social bodies of human life.

The Solutions to Mental Health Problems Within the Social Order: Knowledge, Wealth Redistribution, Mutuality, Ethics, Solidarity, Joint Endeavours

Knowledge

The education of society about mental health problems is the first and most obvious requirement for the dispelling of the myths and lies about the mental health concerns.  Without a correct understanding of what is causing the problems no sincere remedy will ever be accepted.  The people who have mental health concerns at the same time have the answers to those problems.  However it tends to be the case that the mental health population falls into lower classes as compare to their associates who tend to fall into pagan moralities.  This is because the compound effects of the causes results in realities where social stratification is solidified by a conflict between myths, lies and falsehoods versus understandings produced by the mental health population themselves, which is morally corrosive to the truths of the mental health population.

Wealth Redistribution

The incumbent social order after having produced things of value over time must ensure that these valuable are available to all.  Since people with mental health concerns tend to be among the poorest of people in society and it is clear that poverty is a cause of human suffering, both Marx and Muhammad insist upon a revolutionary redistribution of the wealth concerns of the society in favour of the historically oppressed who for that reason chief among the others have a mental health problem.

Mutuality

The key to justice is reciprocation.  Mental Health Problems being social phenomena can only be treated by a change in the way people relate one to another.  As opposed to a one-sided arrangement where the causal factors of mental health problems are heaped upon some while its corollary: wealth, power, and authority within the social order are developed for others, a renewed social order where equality is the rule must emerge.  This must mean that the class distinctions are abolished between social groups.  Within the contemporary society there are the following classes: Landowners, Capitalists, Workers, De-Classed Workers.  Running through these four classes as a parallel phenomenon are the distinctions of mental health.  Unfortunately these distinctions are precluded of their social hierarchy by language.  Within every class there are mental health issues and at the same time the mental health population which runs like a thread throughout them is in each and every one of them the subordinated party.

Ethics

Clearly the reality of mental health problems as a social disease requires for its remedy the cultivation of ethical practices which change society while ameliorating it at the same time.  Marx and Muhammad both agree that it is necessary to aid the lowest classes while at the time fighting against the ruling class with justice practices.

Solidarity

The isolation of people with mental health problems requires the revival of community without which the degeneration of social life into pagan class animosities would continue.  What this means is that unity and community cohesion are antidotes to the world without humanity.

Joint Endeavours

Beyond class society with its tendencies towards pagan moralities people must begin to form egalitarian associations with a determination to oppose the social categories of oppressor and oppressed.  We must build unity and mutual social equality identification and as a rule.  Only then can we live in associations as healthy human actors for whom mental health problems are a consideration of diversity within social growth and development instead of a hierarchical arrangement of quarantined human actors who are underdeveloped and subjected by the super-incumbent strata of the social order.

Bibliography:

Kropotkin, P. (1897) ‘Anarchist Morality.’  www.thing.net  Available at: http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/spunk/pkam2.htm [Accessed 13 January 2020]

This book describes the idea of reciprocation and cooperation in human relationships.  It espouses the idea of mutual aid.  It simplies Christian morality to the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Lenin, V. I. (1919) ‘The State: a lecture delivered at sverdlov university’.www.marxists.org Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/11.htm  [Accessed 13 January 2020]

This book describes the idea of the social system as an administrative machine overruling society and reinforcing the rule of those who possess the means of production, distribution, and exchange.

Marx, K., Engels, F. (1848) ‘The Communist Manifesto.’ www.marxists.org  Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ [Accessed 13 January 2020]

This book outlines the entire theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as an analysis of interactive change through conflict between classes across time and place.  It is the expression in the sphere of economics and history of George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy of development of the World Spirit.

Marx, K. (1867) ‘Capital, a critique of political economy’.  www.marxists.org  Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf [Accessed 13 January 2020]

This book describes the essential and inherent laws of development of the capitalist system as a mode of production winning its way through history with iron necessity.  It is an explanation of how and why things of use are produced and exchanged and made available to people who need them.

The Noble Qur’an. (623) ‘The Noble Qur’an.’ quran.com  Available at:  https://quran.com/ [Accessed 13 January 2020]

This book is a Revelation from Allah to the Holy Prophet Muhammad.  It was manifested upon the heart of Muhammad ibn Abdullah at Mecca, Medina and wider Arabia in the 7^th Century AD.  Islamic scholars insist that the source of the manifestation is the Angel Gabriel who had also brought the news to Mary of her son Jesus.

Beyond the Middle Class Sex Relationship: A Mere Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beavoir's Library of Understanding.

Beyond the Middle Class Sex Relationship: A Mere Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beavoir's Library of Understanding.

By

A Working Class Man in a Position of Minor Patrimony Who Was Divorced by a Middle Class Woman

-

Mr. Gavin AbdulHamid Bushe

Jean Paul Sartre’s philosophy of existentialism amounts to this from my dialectical-materialist point of view: 

“I Spend Therefore I am” – Hence his book: “Being and Nothingness”.

The philosophy of his companion, Simone de Beavoir, in her existentialism amounts to this from my dialectical-materialist point of view: 

It is the “Intermediary Currency Theory of Gender” – Hence her book: “The Second Sex”, or ‘I want money’.

A Proposed Solution for the Proletariat today:

“I Act Therefore I am.” – Meaning: Write your own book as I am not your father.

In the general global economy at the start of the 21^st Century the mode of production is increasing one of Co-Production.  However the problem is this:

“There is co-production and variate remuneration” – Hence the idea: “Equality of Opportunity”.

What this really means is an anti-egalitarian modus operandi which is simply explained as, “From each according to their work, to each according to the contract”.

The point is to realise Communism which is the following:

“An association where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all”, (Marx & Engels 1848).

This means that the following social-economy prevails as:

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”, (Marx & Engels 1848).

Therefore, in the new class sex relationships:

Between men and women it could be a question of labour synergy in romance.

End of Critique

Footnote:

According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel’s in their co-produced book, “The German Ideology”, philosophy is a question of summing up material reality.

Bibliography:

Marx, K., Engels, F. (1848) ‘The Communist Manifesto’. www.marxists.org.  Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm [Accessed 22 December 2019]

Marx, K., Engels, F. (1846) ‘The German Ideology.’  www.marxists.org.  Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm  [Accessed 22 December 2019]

“It shows that history does not end by being resolved into “self-consciousness as spirit of the spirit,” but that in it at each stage there is found a material result: a sum of productive forces, an historically created relation of individuals to nature and to one another, which is handed down to each generation from its predecessor; a mass of productive forces, capital funds and conditions, which, on the one hand, is indeed modified by the new generation, but also on the other prescribes for its conditions of life and gives it a definite development, a special character.  It shows that circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.” – The German Ideology. Part I: Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook. 7. Summary of the Materialist Conception of History’.

Beyond Land and Capital, A Mere Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche’s , “Beyond Good and Evil”.

Beyond Land and Capital, A Mere Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche’s , “Beyond Good and Evil”.

By

A Psychiatric Survivor

Gavin Bushe

The Ubermenschen (The Supermen) and the untermenschen (the undermen) are as such on the basis of having, and not-having.

The proletariat tend to have nothing.

Moral Justice will only exist when all work and share together equally.

After the Collectivisation of All Property human beings will be free and equal together for the Common Ends.

At that stage there will only be one human nation, one class, one reciprocity of gender.

Without private property there could only be the morality of the general will: that is to say, the Collective Will, Our Collective Will.

End of Critique

Mechanisms of The Therapeutic State (The Psychiatry): An Addendum to Mechanisms of the Psychiatric Social Control Through Law, State and Society.

Mechanisms of The Therapeutic State (The Psychiatry):

An Addendum to Mechanisms of the Psychiatric Social Control Through Law, State and Society.

By

Gavin Bushe,

MLIS, B.A. (Hons), Cert.

Psychiatric Survivor

The machine of the incumbent social order masquerades behind a façade of healthcare.  As every feminist knows in relation to patriarchy: what is hidden is powerful.

The social power that oppresses us as mental health subjects operates through a very similar social power construct which could be named: psychiatriarchy.

The Psychiatriarchy Shares Many Similar Features With the Patriarchy as Follows:

It renders its subjects second in relation to non-Psychiatrised subjects, essentially creating an absolute other.

Every oppressed body has its bottom level.  The most possible oppression is to called be souless.  That is absolute otherness.

It Engenders a Social Privilege for the non-Psychiatrised parties in the form of a Psychiatric Dividend.

Class society is competitive and hierarchical over time.  Those who collude with the Psychiatric Power are awarded a status above all of the Psychiatric Caste in every social aspect and rewarded by negative discrimination for social goods before the Psychiatric Caste, .e.g. access to higher education; access to jobs, careers, professions, positions of political power, influence, status; love-interests; social discourses, etc.  In every opportunity society favours those with the Psychiatriarchy and Negatively Discriminates against those identified as psychiatrised.

It Conceals its Power Through Social Denial.

The Psychiariarchy pretends by the law of the Emperor’s New Clothes, to heal people while the Psychiatrised pretend to be healed for life - unto death. It is a torrid social collusion which dares not admit its truth.  The Psychiatriarchy knows that it is lying to itself about its pseudo-science.

The Psychiatriarchy utilises the most persuasive state powers in the form of toxic drugs and psychotherapies in order to do away with all thoughts of difference and hatred against the present society and its incumbents and hangers-on.

Its Mandate is This:

What cannot be tolerated must be treated.

What cannot be treated must be eliminated.

What cannot be eliminated must be discredited.

What cannot be discredited must be exiled.

What cannot be exiled must be buried.

What cannot be buried must be exorcised.

What can be exorcised? Nothing.

What is to be done?:

Our Task is to Expose it. 

Propaganda, Propaganda, Propaganda by experts through experience and qualification.

Our Task is to Then Do Away With the Psychiatric Profession as a Capitalist State Body.

By Stages we Shall Repeal the Psychiatric Laws.

By Stages we shall introduce equality laws to hold recruiting personnel accountable for negative discrimination in real opportunities for social progress for our subordinated stratum against the entire superincumbent strata of Class Society.

By Stages we shall suspend all State Funding for the State Psychiatric Profession.

By Stages we shall discontinue the production runs of Psychiatric Medicines.

By Stages we shall tell the psychotherapists to adopt a new mode of understanding beyond the intellectual products of all hitherto existing class societies – those being societies founded on the exploitation and oppression of one class over another.  It its wake we shall establish an association where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Our Task is to Found a New Social Democratic Order of Mental Health Freedom.

By Stages we shall build real and meaningful social solidarity between people on the basis of equality of outcome.

By Stages we shall contribute and create entirely new forms of Human Ontological Growth first by drawing on all previous experiences.  Then by mental health teaching that advances on the Communist Maxim of: From each according to his abilities – to each according to his needs.

By Stages we shall found alternative non-Capitalist State organisations for the present and future liberation of men and women and trans-people.

To do this we must act decisively and effectively.  Time waits for no-one.  Our present is the bridge to our future together in freedom and equality beyond capitalism.

This is our Mind Freedom Pledge

The Injury to One is the Liberation of All

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This humble tract is dedicated to the legacy of Karl Marx.

Mechanisms of the Apparatus of Psychiatric Social Control Through Law, State, and Society.

by

Mr. Gavin Bushe

MLIS, B.A. (Hons), Cert.

Psychiatric Survivor.

The Psychiatric Gaze.


The power to understand a person within a situation requires for its completion a given type of lens.  There is, for example, the common aphorism “to look through rose-tinted glasses” which is to say that we regard a situation with a most positive and romantic filter.  Similarly, men who attend drinking emporiums have cause to say that “he saw her through beer-goggles”, which is to say that a man saw in an average-looking woman great beauty while he was drunk in her company through alcohol.


In our examination and regard of psychiatric people we find a similar phenomenon.  It is that we adopt in our psychologies the attitude that the person before us is mad in some way.  This is the psychiatric gaze.  It is the presumption before another human being that he or she is “mentally ill” in some way.  This is not necessarily the case.  Outside of the psychiatric viewing structure which is socially constructed through stigma, a man or woman can be regarded quite highly or even honoured by those around him or her.

This psychiatric gaze takes on its highest and most rigorous form at the level of clinical psychiatry.  Indeed there are the five volumes of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals which is the psychiatric profession’s reference library for assessing people before its prescription desk.  It is through these methodological gazes that psychiatrists assess and then diagnose their patients.  There are many of these diagnoses available to a psychiatrist, e.g., bi-polar disorder, depression, pschizo-effective disorder, pschizo-effective disorder with bi-polar tendencies, schizophrenia, etc.  These are all various ways of naming a man or a woman so that they may be treated effectively according to psychiatry.  It is worth mentioning that these diagnoses or names are useful in controlling so-called symptoms while they really control the person before the psychiatric authority.  Additionally the diagnostic procedure is the means through which social stigma is made to come to bear upon the patients.  At the assessment and diagnostic review the person comes to understand himself or herself as unwell in some way.  This is only true if the person internalises the diagnoses and identifies with it as his or her own psychological reality.  Great effort is made to convince the patients to accept the diagnoses and come to terms with themselves as mentally ill.


Upon doing do the diagnoses takes root in the patient’s mind as though a thorn that they struggle against and seek to resist because it is a false statement about their inner mental life.  Social relations reinforce the narrative to the psychiatric citizens because people who are not psychiatrised support the psychiatric system because it awards them a default superior social and legal status over their peers who are psychiatrised before them.  Later this approach becomes a utility in the hands of political actors across institutions within the country.  Psychiatry is a useful trump card in many political games for it is hard to deny the power of the psychiatric state for those who opt to control others by it.

In summary the psychiatric gaze means to say that the context of the understanding is being provided by the attitudinal filter, the gaze, or “how is he mad?”  This results in some form of mad assessment being made about the psychiatric patient.  The psychiatric gaze is a powerful tool in the hands of the beholder. Literally speaking, madness is in the eye of the beholder.  The psychiatric gaze shapes how we view other people whom we suspect of the tautological offence of madness.  Away from this attitude and approach we may well find that we treat the person differently.  Without such a lens, we do not see a psychiatric condition.  It is only via reference to the framework of the gaze that we are able to assess another person as mentally ill in some way.  This is not to say that human beings do not have mental health problems, they may well do.  It is only to say that outside of the specific form of gazing and regarding and looking that is created by psychiatry, that person has only a life or mental health problem, and not a psychiatric problem, for that is the creation of the psychiatric gaze itself.  The gaze creates the understanding in the way a pair of spectacles shapes an image on the wearer’s retina, by shaping the thoughts of the observer as one or other categories of mental illness when he examines or considers the psychiatric subject before him or her.



The psychiatric gaze is the way society looks at people who it deems is in need of control.




The Psychiatric Law.


The Psychiatric Law is the authority that runs throughout social life that governs how some citizens come to award themselves political power over their psychiatrised others.  Within a political state such as a modern republic like Ireland, the consequence of this authority is that it creates first-class and second-class people.  These are the superior and inferior citizenry: the normal and the mad ones.  The superior citizenry rules over the inferior or psychiatric citizenry through the apparatus of the police state.




The Social Collusion on the Treatment of Psychiatric Citizens.


Civic duty is a code of organisation upon people in a republic.  There is also the general agreement that a mentally ill citizen is to be controlled for his or her own good.  Therefore the people see it as an act of duty to cooperate to ensure that a mentally-ill psychiatric citizen is put in his or her appropriate place.

Effectively this means that people automatically relate in a cooperative way to enforce the psychiatric law on the psychiatric citizens when they are perceived as being problematic.




The Fear Charade and its Utility to Political Actors Throughout Society.


There is across our mass media a common understanding that psychiatric citizens are dangerous to themselves or others.  For certain there is some truth in this.  However the fear factor can be ramped-up in order to create a political effect.  In that way some people understand that the control mechanism of the state is only a phone-call away.  The psychiatric profession understands how to foster a relationship of social control with the significant people around any psychiatric citizen.  Indeed it cultivates the relationship of social control over the psychiatric citizens.  I must say that a psychiatrist stands within the state system in relation to a psychiatric citizen in much the same way as a spider stands on its web in relation to a fly.  The psychiatric system of social control is vulnerable to being manipulated by safety concerns.  That is its fear charade.  It is the horror of knowing that out in society are people who are capable of inflicting damage on good people.  The horror of the psychiatric reality is promoted in popular culture, famously the great Alfred Hitchcock film classic, “Psycho” which is a leader in the private drama while news reports of violent acts by psychiatric citizens conveys the truth that in certain circumstances and conditions psychiatric citizens are dangerous to themselves or others.  With the knowledge of the reality that it is right and proper to contain psychiatric citizens, the superior citizens operate around the fear concern to such an extent to leverage political advantage over their neighbours that it adopts the aspect of a charade.  The superior citizens know that they are operating a rational actor game and this becomes useful to them when some of them abuse the psychiatric law for power and domination.  It is highly useful to many of the superior citizens to utilise the psychiatric law for their social power.  Indeed it can even become undeniably useful to those who are adept in the wielding of legal technicalities when reporting to the police.  This gives rise to political psychiatry.  That is the general rule of superior citizens over psychiatric citizens.  It is a rule that can never be undone except by the repeal of the psychiatric law as a political fact.




The Institutional Nexus of Social Control.


The whole of our society is a collective of institutions.  They are the family, the school, the church, the college, etc.  Over all of these institutions is the knowledge by the superior citizenry that they can and do in fact have the right and ability to leverage social control over their psychiatric citizen neighbours.  This means that wherever any psychiatric citizen ends up in the nexus, he or she is subjectionable to the authority of the psychiatric law.  It is all-encompassing as a nexus of social control.




The Axe of the Superior Citizens over the Psychiatric Citizens Through the Mental Health Act 2001.


Psychiatric power came to dominate the life of the psychiatric citizens first within the madhouses.  Later in the era of progressive reform this power was extended in the popular mind by the Mental Health Acts, most recently the Mental Health Act 2001 which was signed into law by Fíanna Fáil Minister for State and Children, Micheal Martin TD.  Since then in particular the Mental Health Act has become a weapon of choice for those of the superior citizenry who wish to command their psychiatric citizen neighbours into internal exile within the archipelago of approved detention centres across the Republic of Ireland.  When will this axe be taken out of the hands of the superior citizens?




The Performance of the Police as Enforcers of the Mental Health Law.


Generally speaking the Police are the armed bodies of men and women who can be relied upon to enforce political power for the superior citizens over the psychiatric citizens with little doubt as to outcome.  The behaviour of the Police is to identify the suspected psychiatric citizen as quickly as possible in the service of the peace of the superior citizens and arrest that citizen.  Then the Police will take the psychiatric citizen to the police station to place him or her under the review of the Police Psychiatrist.




The Psychiatric Review and its Inanity.


The procedure through which the alleged risk to society by the psychiatric citizen of the psychiatric authority is to be determined, is via a review methodology.  This is a very simple list of standardised questions that psychiatrists ask their patients under review.  For example, the psychiatric patient might be asked, “How is your sleep?” or “How well are you eating?”.  Other such common questions are, “Have you had any thoughts of harming anyone?” The answers to these questions will be written down on a document by the reviewing psychiatrist in order to construct a diagnosis and medical prescription.  For every diagnosis there is a range of suitable medications within the medical model of bio-psychiatry.  To the psychiatric patient this appears at first innocuous and then later inane as it slowly become clear to him that he is being set-up for a treatment.
  



The Prescriptive Dictates of the Psychiatrists.


Eventually it will become clear to the patient that he is to be given an unrefusable treatment.  This is unethical as it violates the principle of consent.  Nevertheless whether outside an approved detention centre or within one, the authority of psychiatry is completely irresistible.  Whenever a psychiatric citizen admits to refusing to take the medication as prescribed he will be assaulted by psychiatric nurses with the assistance of security and compelled to do so by forced injections.  There are other cruel and inhumane treatments that are prescribed by the psychiatrists within a locked-ward setting.  Most notably these are electro-convulsive therapy (Electro-shock) and lobotomy.  All these procedures are a violation of the human rights of the psychiatric citizens by the psychiatric state as laid out in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Indeed the suspension of citizens’ liberty by the State is supremely clear as a human rights denial.  While in approved detention the psychiatric citizens whittle away their life’s purposes all the while seeking within and around themselves for some clarity as to why they are there.  They are responded to with continuous reinforcement of the psychiatric narrative that are there to “get well” for the psychiatric problems that never existed except in relation to the psychiatric mechanism of control which created it as a compound layer over their mental and moral problems.




The Collaboration of the GPs and the Pharmacists.


Once outside of the approved detention centres where they are confined until such time as they can reasonably be said by psychiatric methodology to be dependent on the psychiatric medications for the foreseeable future, they are released back into the wider society with only their few belongings that they possessed when they arrived.  Now out in the “community setting” they find that they are drugged for life without any real option but to self-administer the medical poison of the pharmaceutical industry.  It must be noted in passing that the psychiatric citizenry form a definite and distinct social strata from the rest of Irish society.  We are a second-class people within Ireland comparable to the Traveller Community in many ways of oppression.  We associate in our own social networks with tentative relationships to the normal population and by and large we are understood by the insider groups with the social economy as being unworthy of socio-economic inclusion.  Such is the social effect of the Psychiatric System upon those unfortunate ones who are chosen by the well-placed personnel of the institutional nexus of social control for elimination from the company of the favoured sons and daughters of Ireland.  The path dependency of the apparatus of social control for the psychiatric citizens is a  mockery of justice and reason as it follows the psychiatric citizens throughout our lives from that point onwards as a form of negative discrimination in access to jobs, relationships, social mobility and the lives of felicity which the people deemed normal enjoy on a scale of progress that ensures their success within Ireland.  Outcomes for psychiatric citizens are tremendously poor by comparison to our superior citizen peers.

Throughout the socially controlled existences of the psychiatric citizens the two pillars of the community who are the GPs and the Pharmacists play a very strong role in overseeing our life-long subordination to the psychiatric mechanism by playing their roles as medicine dispensers within the nexus.  Between they and the Psychiatric Profession we are controlled by men and women of usually higher learning and systemic understanding.  They collaborate within the psychiatric mechanism because it is highly profitable and since it is the law they feel absolutely justified in watching us receive the enervating poisons continually.  As qualified medical practitioners they must surely understand as we do that we are being slowly murdered by the psychiatric mechanism…

The Power of Social Persuasion to Conform to Treatments.


Now among the people there is the awareness that the psychiatric citizens must be made to take their treatments.  Therefore conversation about the negative impact of psychiatry is only recently being opened up to the personal stories of patients.  All the while the public representatives of the Psychiatric Profession promote the false theories of their school of medicine as widely and loudly as possible.  In this environment of accusation and innocence the survivors of psychiatry work to change the system.  It is a slow process as the power of the medical model psychiatric narrative is still being used constantly to persuade by force of culture the conformity of patients to prescribed treatments.  Hopefully in time psychiatric citizens will learn how to counter this culture of social persuasion?




The Lifelong Reviewing Process and its Agents of the Health Services Executive.


The argument of the Psychiatric Profession is that their patients are suffering from a range of clinical mental illnesses which are bio-chemical in their nature and life-long.  Thus it is argued that we must be kept under life-long review and maintained on our regular doses of psychiatric medication which is slowly killing our nervous systems.  This is because they allege that our so-called mental illnesses are being held at bay by sedatives.  Really we are suffering from complex life and mental health problems which have nothing to do with any chemical imbalance and the medications in particular serve only to induce drowsiness, fog the mind, sicken the soul with saccarine feelings that the moral soul detests with a fury.  Any attempt to reduce or come off completely from psychiatric medication  is resisted by the Psychiatrists and their Health Service Executive personnel who range around the community at the behest of the Psychiatrists in an effort to drive home the purpose of the Psychiatric Mechanism: safety control of the population.




The Regulation of the Drug Control Mechanisms by Testing.


Many of the drugs that are administered to the psychiatric citizens by Industrial State Psychiatry require regular bloods-testing for their effectiveness.  Since the medications are dangerous they must be regulated in order to ensure effectiveness without doing harm to the patients.  Routinely Psychiatrists will send their patients for such blood-tests.  This is yet another layer of the apparatus and another imposition of the systematic will of the Psychiatric State with Society in order to ensure the alienating control perpetuates itself.  The Mechanisms of the Apparatus of Social Control  are felt most acutely at the blood investigation level.





The Ongoing Threat of Psychiatric  Coercion by the Superior Citizenry Over the Psychiatric Citizenry, and the Ambiguous Role of Culture in its Perpetuation.


Moreover the everyday lives of the Psychiatric Citizenry is weighted down by knowledge that our next review is up-and-coming and that we cannot refuse it except that we will be reminded of it via letters and SMS messages, and home visitations by HSE staff.  For those of us who have understood the problem at a theoretical level we are aware of the threat of the Mental Health Act 2001 and its various sections.  The Superior Citizens too can see that they will be able to utilise the law to an effect should it be required.  This makes for an uneasy life.  The culture of the society is such that it is ambiguous about sectionings and the need for safety and protection against our alleged dangerousness.  Due to the increasingly widespread growth of the psychiatric population as a portion of the citizen body many people feel that it is wrong for the psychiatric system to continue as it has done while some appreciate the security provided by the Psychiatric State Sector.  Therefore there is hope that over time the culture can be informed about the realities of the psychiatric experience for the people within it.




The Perversion of the Superior Citizenry over the Psychiatric Citizenry and their Unrelinquishable Satisfaction in Social Power and Dominion.  Its Corrupting Effects on the Moral Sense of the Superior Citizenry.  The  Need to Restore the Social Status of the Psychiatric Citizenry through Restorative Justice.


As with all systems of social power they affect the people within them differently and unfortunately predictably.  The superior citizenry who belong increasingly to the upper classes of Ireland regards the psychiatric citizenry as inferior and deserving of our outcomes within capitalism.  The combination of socio-economic status with an absolute dominion is akin to fascism within the Republic.  Thus the superior citizens cannot but gaze with supremacy at us and receive back our defiance and manners of civic-social defence.  They are unable to relinquish their control without a concerted fight.  This dynamic is understandably corruptive of their attitudes to the problem of social-control.  The way forward is to educate the psychiatric citizenry is their relations to everyone else and the Psychiatric State.  Also it is greatly needed to elevate the psychiatric citizens to the level of consciousness where we can begin to act concertedly together to advance our life interests and political aims.  The road ahead will be fraught with tests as we engage with the superior citizenry in propaganda and activism.  However the general goal is nothing less than complete restorative justice for our caste of the population.

The Psychiatric Mechanism safeguards the socio-economic interests of the superior citizenry body in Ireland.  Within that context any challenge to its structures of law and civility will be resisted or ignored.  In the end this is a just fight of an oppressed class of the Irish Republic whose only option is to struggle or perish within the Psychiatric Mechanism as it operates itself like a hoover over the people.  Only by working together in love and common humanity can we find the strength to arise from the margins and take our rightful place at the heart of Irish life as Irishmen and Irishwomen in equality.

Citizens of Ireland Unite to End the Psychiatric Authority Over the People.

Our Day Will Come!