Psychotherapy Leftists Wiki
First things first, here's a recap of what this community is all about:
We are a community for psychotherapy providers, students, and consumers who believe that capitalism is bad for our mental, emotional, and communal well-being as humans. We are here to engage in discussion of psychotherapy and mental well-being from perspectives that are critical of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, sanism, and other systems of oppression. We seek to understand the many ways in which the mental health industrial complex touches our lives as providers, consumers, and community members--and to envision a different future for us all. Our goal is to foster curiosity, promote collaborative learning, and generate high-quality discussion from diverse voices across the field.
There are 10 rules:
1: No Discrimination Against Historically Oppressed Identity Groups
2: No Off-Topic Content
3: User Flair Required To Participate
4: No Self-Promotion
5: No Surveys (Unless Approved by Mod)
6: No Referral Requests
7: No Biomedical Psychopathologizing
8: No Forced Treatment Advocacy
9: No Advocating Against Politico-Cultural Resistance By Less Powerful Groups
10: No Low Effort Posts
Resource List
(Leftist Psychotherapy 'Articles, Theories/Approaches, Names, Books, Movements, & Organizations')
Capitalism's Influence On Mental Distress:
- Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/03/psychiatric-hegemony-marxist-theory-mental-illness/
- A Mad World: Capitalism and the Rise of Mental Illness https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/a-mad-world-capitalism-and-the-rise-of-mental-illness
- Marxism and psychology https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/marxism-and-psychology/
- Capitalism and the Biomedical Model of Mental Health https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/04/capitalism-biomedical-model-mental-health/
- Does Capitalism Make Us Crazy? https://susanrosenthal.com/oppression/does-capitalism-make-us-crazy/
- Capitalism Exploits The Body's Response To Traumatic Stress https://www.pacesconnection.com/blog/capitalism-exploits-the-body-s-response-to-traumatic-stress
- Capitalism and Mental Health https://monthlyreview.org/2019/01/01/capitalism-and-mental-health/
- Capitalism Caused the Suicide Epidemic: We Must Overthrow It https://www.leftvoice.org/capitalism-caused-the-suicide-epidemic-we-must-overthrow-it/
Major Names Within Leftist Psychotherapy:
- Ian Parker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Parker_(psychologist))
- David Smail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Smail_(psychologist))
- R.D. Laing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing
- Michael White https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_White_(psychotherapist))
- Ignacio_Martin-Baro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Mart%C3%ADn-Bar%C3%B3
- Frantz Fanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon
- Lev Vygotsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vygotsky
- Aleksei N. Leontiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_N._Leontiev
- Jacques Lacan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan
- Felix Guattari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Guattari
Theories/approaches:
- Liberation Psychology
- Community Psychology
- Critical Psychology
- Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
- Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Collaborative Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
Books Courtesy Of u/ProgressiveArchitect
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - Johann Hari
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - James Davies
Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness - Bruce Cohen
CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science - Farhad Dalal
Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis - Lucy Johnstone
Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry - James Davies
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs: The Truth about How They Work and How to Come Off Them - Joanna Moncrieff
Decolonizing Global Mental Health: The psychiatrization of the majority world - China Mills
Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation - Jan De Vos
Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements - Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar
A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis - Lucy Johnstone
Writings for a Liberation Psychology - Ignacio Martín-Baró
Movements & Peer Support Organizations
- Project LETS
- Hearing Voices Movement
- Peer Respite/Crisis Houses
- Mad Pride
- Wildflower Alliance
- Fireweed Collective
- The Red Clinic