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David Castrillon
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Directeur, Projet inclusion. Organisations socialement intelligentes, vision collective de la santé mentale, création de projets d’inclusion. Building socially intelligent organizations, collective vision of mental health
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The proliferation of psych-diagnoses isn't leading young people to 'organise against state & fascist oppression' its sadly enabling them to better align with (via drugs & minor accommodations) the dominant structures of contemporary neoliberal society. You'll never diagnose your way to liberation.
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us

This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in South Asia. The author, Neil Nallan Chakravartula, is an aspiring social and critical psychologist.
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Questioning the shortcoming of diagnosis as it separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Viens rencontrer Patsy Van Roost au parc Pélican ou sur la rue Masson : elle brodera tes mots et émotions à la machine à coudre, pour tisser ensemble une oeuvre collective. Rendez-vous dès 13h sur la rue Masson
Ce projet est porté en partenariat avec L'Arrondissement de Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie
September 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Une ville, ce sont toujours plusieurs villes. Encore faut-il mettre entre parenthèses la nôtre pour entendre les autres. #Inclusion #VillesPlurielles #LesMotsDeLinclusion
: pceim.ca/affordances/
La pluralité de villes dans une même ville : les affordances et la cohabitation sociale. - Projet inclusion
La pluralité des manifestations de l’existence humaine est souvent traitée, abordée, façonnée, à nos jours, avec les lunettes de la santé mentale. On pourrait parler de l’« appareil de la santé mental...
pceim.ca
September 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.
Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
@ccms-sfu.bsky.social
Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Welcome to the Psychiatry Casino
by Yishay Ishi Ron

Modern psychiatry is still, in many ways, closer to educated gambling than science. And patients deserve to know that.
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Welcome to the Psychiatry Casino
Modern psychiatry is still, in many ways, closer to educated gambling than science. And patients deserve to know that.
www.madinamerica.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Three weeks ago: "This is an attempt to silence us—and to cover up a genocide unfolding in real time. I call on international officials, human rights defenders, and global media to speak out and share this message. Your voice can help stop the targeting of journalists and protect the truth.”
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed
by Viviane Valdes, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Pathologizing distress benefits psychiatry, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, but dampens responses that could dismantle oppression.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/trea...
Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed
Pathologizing distress benefits psychiatry, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies, but dampens responses that could dismantle oppression.
www.madinamerica.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Les gardiens du territoire se battent en ce moment même contre le projet de loi 97. Appuyons les !!

C’est par la ; linktr.ee/ensemble_con...
August 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Democracy depends on attention.

And we’re losing it—by design.

My latest: The Attention Wars — how algorithmic systems are dismantling the cognitive infrastructure that makes democratic life possible.
The Attention Wars
Why the Battle for Human Focus Determines Everything Else
www.notesfromthecircus.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Pharma is using neurodivergence as an instrument of profit, establishment psychiatry is using it to make biological determinism great again, while the state is using it to exonerate the harms created by neoliberal social structure. The concept is ripe for conservative co-option.
June 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Cette semaine, nous participons au Workshop Culture, Mind and Brain à McGill University, un espace de dialogue interdisciplinaire autour d’une perspective écologique du mental.

#inclusion #montreal
Culture, Mind and Brain
www.mcgill.ca
June 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Today, let's celebrate biodiversity, defined as all living things and their interactions. It is the birthday of the great E.O. Wilson (1929-2021). Wilson is considered the father of biodiversity for his great work bringing Earth's biodiversity and the grave threats to it to public attention. 1/3
June 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Inspiré du pissenlit, symbole de résilience, de légèreté et de mouvement collectif, ce logo reflète notre vision :
Ensemble, on nourrit le terrain pour l’inclusion.

#inclusion #montreal #rosemont #santementale
June 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Therapists who do not listen & learn collaboratively & dialogically, but who instead impose thier prefabricated ideas, advice & meanings, do not heal people - they manipulate them. They do not help liberate, empower or enlighten: they oppress.
May 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Faisons entendre la voix des jeunes + générations futures! Appuyez l’adoption de la #Chaisedesgénérations à @assnatqc.bsky.social

Cette 🪑 sert à rappeler aux élu·e·s que leurs décisions, aujourd'hui, ont un impact sur la sécurité, la santé et l’avenir des enfants.

www.meresaufront.org/cdg-jappuie
May 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Here's the first episode of our new podcast, The Blind Spot, featuring yours truly with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. We're starting out with some topics from our book but we'll move on from those soon, and we plan to invite guests for future episodes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vT...
The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 1, An Introduction
YouTube video by The Blind Spot Podcast
www.youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
April 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Je partage ma dernière réflexion sur la tendance à tout technifier, dont l’écoute : pceim.ca/ecoute-active/
De l’écoute active à l’échange humain - PCEIM
La pluralité des manifestations de l’existence humaine est souvent traitée, abordée, façonnée, à nos jours, avec les lunettes de la santé mentale. On pourrait parler de l’« appareil de la santé mental...
pceim.ca
April 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Great essay on how 'mental disorders' are problems of personal and social relations and systems not of individuals www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/from...
Relational Minds: Diagnosis and the Fallacy of Internalism
In this guest post, James Barnes argues that psychiatric diagnosis rests on a basic category error, one that doesn't acknowledge the relational dynamics of psychological distress.
www.psychologytoday.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Honteux 🤬 Dites au Premier Ministre que de passer une loi (sous bâillon!!) qui porte atteinte aux droits de la population pour accommoder une entreprise américaine est inacceptable!

Écrivez au PM: eausecours.org/agir/nonpl93/

#Stablex #polqc
Stablex | Québec solidaire soupçonne la CAQ de vouloir utiliser le bâillon
Québec solidaire (QS) soupçonne le gouvernement Legault de vouloir adopter sous bâillon le projet de loi 93 pour accommoder une entreprise américaine de traitement de déchets dangereux.
www.lapresse.ca
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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✊🏻Nous avons besoin d'un maximum de mobilisation!

👀Vigie sur le site jeudi 3 avril

📣 Manifestation samedi 5 avril

✍️ Pétition à signer

📨 Lettre pré-rédigée par @eausecours.bsky.social à envoyer

➡ Pétition à signer sur ASSNAT

Retrouvez le tout ici linktr.ee/Meresaufront
April 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Grand rassemblement le 6 avril à 13 h 30 au pied du Mont-Royal, près de la statue de Georges-Étienne Cartier, afin d'exprimer notre solidarité et notre résistance face aux menaces de Trump et pour dire non à une vision de société basée aur des inégalités.
Le Québec appelle à la résistance et à la solidarité face aux menaces de l'administration Trump
/CNW/ - Un collectif de citoyennes et de citoyens québécois de toutes allégeances lance aujourd'hui un appel à la résistance et à la solidarité afin de faire...
www.newswire.ca
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
@lionelcarmant.bsky.social Le Libre Espace de PCEIM @projet-inclusion.bsky.social est une solution concrète contre l’itinérance. Soutenons et renforçons ces initiatives inclusives! 🔗 pceim.ca/porteuse-vil... #Itinérance #Inclusion
Le libre espace et la porteuse de la ville - PCEIM
La pluralité des manifestations de l’existence humaine est souvent traitée, abordée, façonnée, à nos jours, avec les lunettes de la santé mentale. On pourrait parler de l’« appareil de la santé mental...
pceim.ca
March 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM