<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:32:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/szaszian/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[More About Mental Illness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mental illness does not literally exist. It might poetically exist as a metaphorical idea. It is like the idea that a sick joke is not literally sick. The brain can literally be sick - stroke, neurosyphilis,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/more-about-mental-illness-5d8beb00f02fd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/more-about-mental-illness-5d8beb00f02fd</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:58:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Civil commitment and the insanity defense should be outlawed. Ask yourself, how might that help to solve societal problems? Read the book Insanity by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. According to Szasz, there]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/insanity/@michaelten/insanity-96018aecdd411</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/insanity/@michaelten/insanity-96018aecdd411</guid><category><![CDATA[insanity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:21:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychiatric Coercion Is Wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[We must outlaw psychiatric slavery. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz is correct; psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism. Szasz wrote about 35 books; consider reading some of them. Only consensual psychiatry]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatric-coercion-is-wrong</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatric-coercion-is-wrong</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:02:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychiatry is a pseudo medical cult.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psychiatrists are legally allowed to engage in forced conversions. Psychiatry implicitly deals with spiritual and theological issues since suicide prohibitions involve the potential of an afterlife (or]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatry-is-a-pseudo-medical-cult-6b5c874609818</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatry-is-a-pseudo-medical-cult-6b5c874609818</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:14:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychiatric Dynamics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psychiatric dynamics! Don't feel good? Have a drug! Don't like the way some one is feeling or behaving? Try to have them ingest a drug! Yes. These drugs have side effects. Some of these side effects can]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatric-dynamics-c6d1277517b65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/psychiatric-dynamics-c6d1277517b65</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:22:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Must]]></title><description><![CDATA[We need basic income. We must defeat aging. We must outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry. Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. Read books that psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/aging/@michaelten/we-must-fe104b1539823</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/aging/@michaelten/we-must-fe104b1539823</guid><category><![CDATA[aging]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:32:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism. Perhaps psychiatric coercion should be outlawed.]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism. Perhaps psychiatric coercion should be outlawed.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/antipsychiatry/@michaelten/according-to-psychiatrist-thomas-szasz-psychiatric-coercion-is-medicalized-terrorism-perhaps-psychiatric-coercion-should-be-de0025666a553</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/antipsychiatry/@michaelten/according-to-psychiatrist-thomas-szasz-psychiatric-coercion-is-medicalized-terrorism-perhaps-psychiatric-coercion-should-be-de0025666a553</guid><category><![CDATA[antipsychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 02:12:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide Rates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there a burden on society to “protect” adults who are planning to end their own life on Earth? That burden is manufactured and morally deficient. That burden probably ultimately prevents us from actually]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/suicide-rates</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/suicide-rates</guid><category><![CDATA[szaszian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:19:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining Mental Illness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asking when one can consider someone free of mental illness is something like asking, when can you consider someone free from being a heretic and spreading heresy? Homosexuality was once considered an]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/defining-mental-illness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/defining-mental-illness</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:01:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Spot Sanist Bigots]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sanist bigots believe that psychiatric coercion should be legal. Sanist bigots think that psychiatric slavery (nonconsensual psychiatry) should remain legal. Sanist bigots medicalize suicide and misery]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/how-to-spot-sanist-bigots</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/how-to-spot-sanist-bigots</guid><category><![CDATA[szaszian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 06:55:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literalizing Metaphors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz labels psychiatric diagnoses as being literalized metaphors. Like Catholic priests supposedly turning bread and wine into the literal body and blood of Christ, psychiatrists turn]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/literalizing-metaphors-a200b72b881c5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/literalizing-metaphors-a200b72b881c5</guid><category><![CDATA[szaszian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:59:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychiatric Dehumanization]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mental illness is a lieralized metaphor. Misery and tragedy have always existed. It is only in the last few hundred years that misery trauma, and tragedy have been medicalized into what we refer to as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szasz/@michaelten/psychiatric-dehumanization-5833007b46157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szasz/@michaelten/psychiatric-dehumanization-5833007b46157</guid><category><![CDATA[szasz]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:19:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope all psychiatric survivors attempt to help outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hope all psychiatric survivors attempt to help outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/i-hope-all-psychiatric-survivors-attempt-to-help-outlaw-psychiatric-coercion-and-nonconsensual-psychiatry-63f66d26da99e</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/i-hope-all-psychiatric-survivors-attempt-to-help-outlaw-psychiatric-coercion-and-nonconsensual-psychiatry-63f66d26da99e</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:55:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Szaszian Ethics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Szaszian ethics is here to stay!]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/2rtw92-szaszian-ethics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/2rtw92-szaszian-ethics</guid><category><![CDATA[szaszian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 03:10:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dxBptBughogQ1UQGMN5JeCYFJjRFLFpT94S?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Psychiatry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read the essay and book The Myth of Mental Illness by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Mental illnesses are metaphors for problems in living, emotional distress, trauma, and uneasily explained behaviors. Mental]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/antipsychiatry/@michaelten/on-psychiatry-f9b3c6e663395</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/antipsychiatry/@michaelten/on-psychiatry-f9b3c6e663395</guid><category><![CDATA[antipsychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:12:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do psychiatric drugs do more harm than good? Probably.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do psychiatric drugs do more harm than good? Probably.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/do-psychiatric-drugs-do-more-harm-than-good-probably-3d2653476bb81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/do-psychiatric-drugs-do-more-harm-than-good-probably-3d2653476bb81</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 01:54:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide Prohibitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some people do believe that there is no point to living on Earth. I don't. The point of living is to enjoy living, and to benefit self and others. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero using]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/suicide/@michaelten/suicide-prohibitions-2adaf029b925</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/suicide/@michaelten/suicide-prohibitions-2adaf029b925</guid><category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 20:26:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/suicide-should-be-respected-as-a-civil-and-human-right-for-all-adults-when-it-is-done-in-private-read-the-book-suicide-27b9ef113814f</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/szaszian/@michaelten/suicide-should-be-respected-as-a-civil-and-human-right-for-all-adults-when-it-is-done-in-private-read-the-book-suicide-27b9ef113814f</guid><category><![CDATA[szaszian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:50:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are any political candidates attempting to outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are any political candidates attempting to outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/are-any-political-candidates-attempting-to-outlaw-psychiatric-coercion-and-nonconsensual-psychiatry-f0309c7fe4132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychiatry/@michaelten/are-any-political-candidates-attempting-to-outlaw-psychiatric-coercion-and-nonconsensual-psychiatry-f0309c7fe4132</guid><category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:19:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libertarianism and Psychiatry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Libertarians should focus more on the harm and consequences of psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry. According to libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, psychiatric coercion is medicalized]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/libertarian/@michaelten/libertarianism-and-psychiatry-c5e58e6d0bc91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/libertarian/@michaelten/libertarianism-and-psychiatry-c5e58e6d0bc91</guid><category><![CDATA[libertarian]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[michaelten]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:20:09 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>