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<p>The psychiatric institution requires a routine evaluation of a person’s mental state during which their rights may be stripped and their bodies confined. This state of affairs is indicative of a subaltern condition for psychiatric patients that maintains a material violence against their bodies. Implementing first-hand accounts of psychiatric violence and resistance, this article outlines the subaltern condition as a schizoanalytic assemblage. Through representation by proxy and image re-presentation, patients suffer a condition of voicelessness wherein they disappear between the lines of the discourse. Simultaneously, through real physical walls and restraints, a material violence against the body keeps the patient in a state of subalternity. Between these discursive formations and material conditions, an assemblage deterritorializes and reterritorializes the patient through acts of violence on the body. As a strategy to oppose this psychiatric violence, the disability rights movement’s demand for nothing about us without us opens up a line of flight toward psychiatric insurrection and carceral abolition.</p>

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The straps that hold and the doors which lock: on the deterritorialization of the psychiatric patient’s body through a subaltern condition

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    2025年10月2日

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  • Paddy Farr

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The psychiatric institution requires a routine evaluation of a person’s mental state during which their rights may be stripped and their bodies confined. This state of affairs is indicative of a subaltern condition for psychiatric patients that maintains a material violence against their bodies. Implementing first-hand accounts of psychiatric violence and resistance, this article outlines the subaltern condition as a schizoanalytic assemblage. Through representation by proxy and image re-presentation, patients suffer a condition of voicelessness wherein they disappear between the lines of the discourse. Simultaneously, through real physical walls and restraints, a material violence against the body keeps the patient in a state of subalternity. Between these discursive formations and material conditions, an assemblage deterritorializes and reterritorializes the patient through acts of violence on the body. As a strategy to oppose this psychiatric violence, the disability rights movement’s demand for nothing about us without us opens up a line of flight toward psychiatric insurrection and carceral abolition.