Przez kwasową psychiatrię do kwasowego komunizmu. Renesans psychodeliczny w psychiatrii jako szansa na zmianę paradygmatu
Through acid psychiatry to acid communism. Psychedelic renaissance in psychiatry as a chance for a paradigm shift

Summary/Abstract: Mark Fisher wrote „the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgentone if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to developthis thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnessesthat could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism couldlook like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon of „psy-chedelic renaissance”. This repoliticization could constitute the first step towardsacid communism – a step that would enable a comprehensive formulation of theproject, the imagining of both acid communism itself as well as the road towards it. Even though psychedelics could provide an impulse for the change of the domi-nant psychiatric paradigm and the reorganization of mental health services, theprocess of the interception of these substances by the alienating and commodifica-ting orders of psychiatry and capitalism can already be observed, so that both of theintertwined and mutually supporting orders can in fact be strengthened. From thisperspective the institution of psychiatry becomes a key element preserving thestatus quo, which makes the imagining of the end of capitalism impossible. Politi-cization of mental health, that could question capitalist realism, needs to be con-nected with the deconstruction of the ideology of psychiatry.

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