Neutralizing The Resistance By Pathologizing Anti-Authoritarianism

Via AlterNet: 

By Bruce E. Levine

 

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?
 

Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities.

Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders are essentially anarchists who have the bad luck of being misidentified by mental health professionals, who 1) are ignorant of the social philosophy of anarchism; 2) embrace, often without political consciousness, its opposite ideology of hierarchism; and 3) confuse the signs of anarchism with symptoms of mental illness.   

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/anarchists-oppressed-psychiatry-and-underground-resistance?page=0%2C0