Anti-Psychiatry’s decline tracks capitalist realism’s rise

Evidence

What we need is a denaturalisation (and consequent politicisation) of mental illness. I think the formation of a dedicated pressure group could work towards this. We need something like a revival of the Anti-Psychiatry movement of the Sixties and Seventies. Well, not so much a revival as a re-occupation of the terrain that Anti-Psychiatry fought on; you could argue that the receding of Anti-Psychiatry correlates very closely with the rise of capitalist realism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2217

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fisher asserts a correlation between the end of Anti-Psychiatry and the rise of capitalist realism roughly in the late 1970s-80s; the causation and dating would be worth pinning down.
• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalytic complaints now come phrased as economic malaise — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 905; Psychiatric disorder rose with industrial capitalism’s onset around 1750 — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1406; Psychiatry’s degeneracy theory gave rise to an internal social racism — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 301

Broader Connections

• Psychiatry’s degeneracy theory gave rise to an internal social racism #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 301