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“Psychiatric knowledge is also frequently damaging because of the dominance and power it holds in society. It is positioned as expert knowledge – bolstered by the institutional authority of science and medicine – and is therefore seen as more legitimate than knowledge that comes from people without power. [..] This power stems from the fact that, like the rest of medicine, psychiatry is seen to reveal internal, apolitical and ahistorical truths about our bodyminds, when, in actuality, >