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Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/campaign-for-psychiatric-abolition-there-is-no-abolition-without-anti-psychiatry
Complementary information:
https://www.zinzinzine.net/lutte-abolition-psychiatrie-cpa.html
https://www.mesopinions.com/petition/sante/abolition-contention-isolement-psychiatrie/108438
" We formed CPA to fight back against this violence and death that permeates the lives of every psych survivor. Our organising encompasses a wide variety of community work â one aspect of this is the workshops we give about psychiatric abolition across britain to both the public, comrades and radical organisations, because we see education about mad liberation, crisis care and peer support as essential life and organising skills. This is not about âawarenessâ, but about survival. It is about knowing how to be there for our comrades and loved ones without calling the cops or the docs.
Our work also includes serving our communities in material ways, such as delivering care packages to our incarcerated friends in psych wards and providing them with the support and resources they need, whilst working collectively for their freedom. We also work to tackle the root causes of mental distress, like poverty, oppression and homelessness, by carrying out mutual aid and providing a safe space for psych survivors to voice our experiences without feeling dismissed. We believe in the importance of direct action and taking the fight of psychiatric abolition to the streets, and to support this belief, we carry out actions, alongside other psych survivors, to target all these places of abuse and torture.
We also want to take every opportunity to draw attention to the interlinking struggles and experiences of psych ward patients, prisoners and people incarcerated in detention centres â all dehumanised because we are deemed âmadâ, âbadâ, âillegalâ or all three. We are all transported in the same high security vans to be locked away from our communities, with torturously limited contact with the outside world. Our possessions and glimpses of humanity â clothes, photos, shoelaces, phone calls, visitations â are taken from us, every last crumb of food and drop of water controlled. In some places they even use straitjackets and bed restraints, and throw patients into freezing or burning baths and showers.
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In the 21st century, containing mad people and electrocuting our brains is still seen as an acceptable cure to our distress â distress often caused by the forces of oppression and poverty so prevalent under racial capitalism. When we say we are treated like prisoners, it is not to create a divide between the âdeservingâ and âundeservingâ of punishment â it is to say emphatically and without question that the struggles of those society deems âinsaneâ and âcriminalâ are inextricably linked â we are one, and we extend endless love and solidarity to all of our siblings incarcerated, in all forms, at this current time. Fuck cages!
We are not calling for an end to mental health care, but are simply begging for it to exist in the first place â we deserve a world where we can actually heal, instead of a system that reproduces trauma. We are fighting for patient-centred, community care, where the violence of poverty, racism, incarceration and colonialism do not drive us to insanity. A world where we are able to truly look after each other, where our needs are centred and madness is not seen as an individual failing but a greater incentive to solidify our communities.
We are fighting for an end to psychiatryâs monopoly on mental healthcare because every day, more of our people are suffering and dying, with nowhere to turn without the prospect of being locked up. No one will be free until psychiatry is abolished. Anti-psychiatry is not a dated movement destined to stay in the 60s, it is an active practice that survivors are forging every day. We are anti-psychiatry because we cannot afford not to be. We are anti-psychiatry because, despite it all, we are trying to snatch life from the jaws of death."
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I am an independent investigative researcher and am trained as a psychologist, I am looking for my calling between the American and the European Continent because I can do both and I am not on this earth for the financially rich and comfortable. I am actually in convalescence and healing from systemic and narcissistic abuse further to my own mother was systematically destroyed by psychiatry.
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