Posted by munificentexegete on February 19, 2007, at 15:52:21
In reply to Re: Everything I believe may be wrong » munificentexegete, posted by laima on February 19, 2007, at 8:54:45
>> Unfortunately I am sad to say that medicine has also constructed concepts like schizophrenia and bipolar.
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> That is so utterly false, it's just about not worth discussing.you can't discuss it because there is no logically and scientifically sound counter argument. A scientific forgery is just that, there is nothing you can do to legitimize it, in the same way one cannot turn a fake picasso into a real one. However, as I said before they could be redefined as real illnesses, turned into sound originals, but that will never happen. The real insidiousness is in the ability of such metaphoric illnesses to be eternally hypothetical, and to be universally applicable to the entire population on a subjective basis. I have heard the phrase paragon of evility mentioned in this regard.
i am not lambasting medicine in general, I am not lambasting psychiatry, indeed i agree with the medical treatment of bona fide mental illnesses, i am merely pointing out the scientific forgeries created with regard to a particular subset of illnesses, and the insidious effects of such creations.
> Have you ever considered taking an anthropology of medicine class?
I already have a fairly good working knowledge of the origins of schizophrenia and bipolar from bleuler to kraepelin. whether it was invented in 1908, 1902 or last year, it still doesn't make them bona fide illnesses.
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