Posted by Toph on October 13, 2006, at 10:53:46
In reply to Re: Please be civil Dr Szaz, posted by zazenducky on October 11, 2006, at 8:38:27
I remember reading about Szasz in graduate school years ago. Perhaps he was a necessary irritant needed to shake up the psychiatric community at the time. I am no scholar of his work but his assertion that there is no mental illness is dangerous and condescending.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm
I have Bipolar I disorder with psychotic features. If someone would say to my face that my repeated hospitalizations stemmed merely from a difficulty I have in adjusting to life as Szasz suggests, I would punch him in the nose.
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