Getting Rid of the Pain Before Answering Its Questions: Psychiatry’s Damage to Self and Culture
Editor’s note: this report was first published on Mad in America 3rd October 2026 “If you get rid of pain before you have answered its questions, you get rid of the self along with it.” —Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking, 1975. People come to mental health professionals in pain—the […] The post Getting Rid of the Pain Before Answering Its Questions: Psychiatry’s Damage to Self and Culture appeared first [...]
