In the articles the Black Panther does not argue that all psychosurgery or pharmaceutical treatments were wrong, and the Black Panthers did not express a belief that Black people wouldn't be disabled and therefore wouldn't need them. Rather specific care was given to the idea the psychosurgery and forced pharmaceutical treatments were harmful because they were being done primarily in coercive and nonconsensual ways among individuals held by the state through imprisonment, mental incarceration, or veteran status.

The BPP did not discount the realness of psychiatric disability and the desire for psychiatric care.