How You Can Help to Outlaw Psychiatric Slavery

I think that educating people about Szaszian ethics is important to ending abusive psychiatry. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz relies on logic, common sense, precise language, and epistemological reasoning, and decent morality to conclude that psychiatric slavery (nonconsensual psychiatry) should be abolished and outlawed. Was Thomas Szasz correct in understanding and believing that psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism?

I will disagree with anyone who believes that consensual psychiatry should be banned. Certainly, more transparent and better research should be used to inform the public of the rather real potential harms of consensual psychiatry. Perhaps some people find benefit from consensual psychiatric services. Their freedom to purchase a (potentially harmful) service should not be curtailed. Cigarettes should remain legal even though they are harmful.

There is much that can be done to move society towards outlawing nonconsensual psychiatry and psychiatric slavery. More people need to speak up about the moral deficiencies of psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement. More individuals should be vocal proponents of banning and outlawing civil commitment and the insanity defense. To spread this message, more people should Tweet to, write to, meet with, or call (and leave a voicemail) the law-makers (legislators). Legislators and lawmakers at city, county, state, and federal levels need to hear that their constituents understand the harms of psychiatric coercion, and legislators need to be told reasons why psychiatric slavery should be outlawed.

Always be authentically peaceful while creating change. Grassroots activism can affect opinions, and result in changed laws. Persuasion and reason has the potential to change hearts and minds when applied tactfully and thoughtfully.

Nonconsensual psychiatry must be abolished. Psychiatric slavery must be abolished. Suicide should be respected as a civil right. We should use persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides, not psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero. Perhaps societal change, like implementing basic income might help to reduce suicides significantly, but that is a topic for someone other mishmash of letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs. Nonconsensual psychiatry (psychiatric slavery) will eventually be abolished, just like chattel slavery was outlawed; hopefully it will happen sooner than later. 

On Suicide Prohibitions

A Psychiatric Survivor movement exists for a reason. Thomas Szasz refers to the coercive psychiatry systems that exist as forming psychiatric slavery. He wrote a book entitled Psychiatric Slavery which explores a Supreme Court case related to psychiatry  (Donaldson case, which has a Wikipedia article I believe).

The history of psychiatry is filled with torture and human rights abuses.

Suicide prohibitions deter people from being able to have open and honest conversations about suicide in private (like with a counselor).

I believe if we ever want to be able to have a real significant reduction in suicides we need to stop using psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement to prevent and deter then. We need to use large amounts of persuasion, reason, and kindness if we want a significant reduction of or elimination of suicides, which is indeed a worthwhile goal. Are suicide prohibitions are remnants of a Judeo-Christian quasi-Sharia law?

Should only atheists and agnostics be allowed to engage in suicide? No, all adults should have suicide respected as a civil and human right, when done in private.

Psychiatry Is a Secular Religion

Psychiatry is the secular religion of secular nations. Qualified adherents are allowed to engage in forced conversion using civil commitment and psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement. Psychiatric coercion is morally wrong and should be outlawed. Only consensual psychiatry should be legal. I support the separation of psychiatry and state.

Is Suicide Illegal?

Suicide isn't actually illegal. Suicide is effectively illegal though because you can be locked in a psychiatric unit if you attempt it.

Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for adults when done in private. Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

Discussing Suicide

Once suicide is respected as a civil and human right for adults, then perhaps less people will use it as "a cry for help"; maybe people can then talk openly about suicide in private and fully be able to ask for help without being concerned about potentially being locked up in a psychiatric unit.

Suicide Laws

Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for adults (when done in private). Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero. However, psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement should be illegal. We should use persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides.

Thomas Szasz and Psychiatric Slavery

People that support what psychiatrist Thomas Szasz calls psychiatric slavery should not be around vulnerable people. If you support what Szasz calls psychiatric slavery then you are morally deficient and either malicious or willingly ignorant or oblivious. You will be on the wrong side of history. Adults should be able to have open and honest conversations about suicide in private without being concerned about potentially being locked in a psychiatric unit and effectively jailed. We should use copious amounts of persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero. We should discourage suicide, however suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for adults when it is not done in public.