The author explains how mental health professionals are educated and indoctrinated to view anti-authoritarianism as mental illness. All education in capitalist societies is loaded with indoctrination in values and beliefs that serve the One Percent. Few "educated" people are aware of their own indoctrination.
Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world -- a diagnosable one.(This subject has been explored in greater detail by Jeff Schmidt in his book, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives.)
