This is a very important work. I’ve never seen anyone with such a supreme command of the english language in this area. Cacciatore brings much intelligence and depth to an area often mired in shallowness and diffidence.
For too long Biopsychiatry has ruled over everyone as a literal regime identical psychologically to the regime currently falling in Iran (as of March 2006). Did you know that the “fashionable” Hajib was forced upon previously unveiled women in that country ? Enforced brutally by law, just as psychiatry is brutally forced on people in the UK. An issue that the woke, socialist mob ignores. People’s right to simply express grief. The author carries a tactical nuclear strike against, not psychiatry directly, as you might think, but a society that functions as an enabler for it. “Grief is aggressively avoided“, as she writes, by people who have suppressed their own misery. So they can’t stand witnessing it in anyone else.
“In a culture like our own that is addicted to the relentless quest to feel happy — perhaps as an unconscious attempt to bypass our disavowed misery — grief is taboo, pathologized, and aggressively avoided.”
Joanne Cacciatore made me realise the reality of what I’d been subjected to socially. A lot of gas lighting and passive agressive behaviour by those complicit in propping up a terrifying psychiatric regime of forced druggings, electrocution torture and destroyed life’s and families.
I have also noticed this issue and psychiatry gets shuffled of into the “minor issues” corner. Yet the author nails this as well.
“In a certain sense, I suspect the bypassing of traumatic grief may be the greatest threat facing humankind today, responsible for immense suffering from addictions and abuse to social disconnection and perhaps even war. When we disconnect from our grief, we disconnect from ourselves. When we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from others and from the natural world. It is an insidious cycle of unnecessary suffering that pervades families, communities, cultures, and generations. By trying to circumvent suffering, we magnify it.” [My emphasis]
Read this book !
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