Steiner, a white author and founder of radical psychiatry, asserts that "psychiatry is a political activity" because the influence psychiatrists have over the lives in which they intervene. Steiner holds that psychiatry and psychiatrists cannot be neutral objective forces because of the position of power they hold over their patients and that it is these false claims of neutrality that lead to marginalized people avoiding psychiatric services. Steiner then states that a radical psychiatrist should advocate for the side of those whom they are helping and not look for the wrongness in the person and will take the ways someone is being oppressed into account when assessing their mental health.