Racism and Antisemitism in the Mental Health System

"Why do we have to remind them we are human?" Did you know there used to be a mental illness called Drapetomania, where Black slaves were deemed mad for wanting to be free and flee captivity? Did you also know the beginnings of both psychiatry and psychology privileged the white man's purported rationality as the default, as the aspiration of health, of superiority, without the science or moral argument to back it up? Psychiatry and psychology both have deeply embedded racist beliefs in their fo