Eric Reinhart
@_Eric_Reinhart
Political anthropologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalytic clinician. Based in Chicago, I work with individuals across the world via remote connections.
I often take care of people after suicide attempts. When they explain why they tried to die, a large proportion say they could no longer see “the point” in life. “There’s no meaning for me, no reason to live.” Most clinicians push against this idea to dissuade people from it. 1/
The flu season has been a brutal one. Also, every time I see this chart I marvel at the bar for 2020-2021, when various mitigation measures against respiratory illness so successfully suppressed the spread of flu that the risk of severe illness and death was near-eliminated.
1. The pediatric death toll from #flu for 2024-25 continues to climb, with #CDC informed of 5 more deaths last week. That brings the season's total so far to 266, which is only 22 fewer than during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic! Of kids eligible for vax & for whom vax status is known,…
Launch a genocide and usher in fascism, and then you too can sell a book.
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
Even more than the incessant weapons flows and refusal to demand a ceasefire, I think this has always been the most damning argument for Biden's personal complicity in the genocide. An act of mass starvation carried out directly by the U.S. federal government
The US defunded the primary UN organization feeding the people of Gaza in Jan 2024 and no one batted an eye. They did it to help Israel use aid as a weapon of war. Now as the predicted famine arrives in full everyone is throwing their alibis together and it makes me fucking sick
This is very bad, no good, inadvertently fascism-abetting journalism. There are no available psychiatric beds. Trump’s plan is simply to arbitrarily incarcerate poor people without legitimate cause and call it ‘treatment.’
Nearly the entirety of Congress—both Democrats and Republicans—should be prosecuted for willfully abetting genocide by repeatedly voting to send yet more military support to Israel while it was plain as day what Israel was using American weapons to do.
Psychiatrists played a major role in enabling mass incarceration. As Trump uses psychiatric rationalizations to further expand the US police state by forcibly institutionalizing anyone deemed homeless, mentally ill, or abusing substances, psychiatrists have a duty to fight back.
What’s the salary a US psychiatrist will require to go work for Trump’s fascist asylums ‘treating’ homeless people that the regime disappears? The profession already staffs US mass incarceration for a pretty penny. Not much of a stretch to also work for its concentration camps.
These esteemed authors were opportunistic fools and fascist enablers then as now. The politics of the US medical profession and its ethicists are more reactionary than any other field. Few carry on the Nazi doctor tradition today better than we do. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
To believe Trump and RFK intend to provide treatment to people they forcibly institutionalize, you must ignore that they’re aggressively defunding, dismantling, and attacking psychiatric systems while embracing fascist anti-psychiatry. This EO is simply a mass incarceration plan.
If anyone believes Trump and RFK Jr actually intend to provide meaningful treatment to people, they are willfully ignoring that this administration is aggressively defunding, dismantling, and openly attacking psychiatric systems while embracing fascist anti-psychiatry.
Trump’s new order pressures states to incarcerate homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut funding for cities that don't follow his fascist orders. This is a major step in the regime’s eugenicist campaign to disappear people with mental illness.
Someone asked me why Democrats are now coming out vaguely against starvation. People who celebrated and funded this inevitable result every step of the way are issuing statements now in a futile attempt to distort how history judges their unforgivable crimes against humanity.
This reads as though the Gaza famine is the fault of lazy trucks
If it’s bad when Trump does it, it’s also grotesque when Gavin Newsom does it. That slimy man should have no place in US politics.
Is there a de-genocidairification plan for Israel, where poll after poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Jewish residents are fully in favor of exterminating Palestinians?