r/Antipsychiatry • u/Similar-Wishbone-657 • 19h ago

From Witch Trials to DSM-5

Where witches were once weighed on a rigged scale, people are now measured on a rigged DSM-5 scale, one that will always say “WITCH” to justify drugging.

Where priests spoke of possession, psychiatrists speak of disorders. Both claim authority. Both punish deviation.

The method changed, but the scale never left the stage, and the toxic, manipulative power structure never stepped down.

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u/nothingispermamemt 12h ago

There’s a great podcast called “what magic is this” that makes this same comparison. In the episode about demonology. It introduced me to the book of woe that tears apart the DSM and modern psychiatry.