1. Historical Misuse of Psychiatry

- Psychiatry repeatedly functioned as a tool of social control rather than science.

- Drapetomania exemplifies fabricated diagnoses used to enforce domination.

- Similar patterns reappear in racialized overdiagnosis, pathologizing dissent, and moralizing nonconformity.

2. Core Epistemic Failure: Black‑Box Classification

- Psychiatry lacks a mechanistic, white‑box substrate equivalent to DNA in biology.

- DSM categories are symptom clusters, not causal explanations.

- Without mechanistic grounding, categories drift with culture, power, and incentives.

- Many diagnoses are non‑portable — they exist only within specific rule systems.

3. Institutional Incentives and Diagnostic Inflation

- Diagnostic systems shape reimbursement, liability, and prof ...