Posted by alexandra_k on February 14, 2014, at 3:31:53
In reply to from patient to service provider...?!?! (long), posted by Christ_empowered on February 13, 2014, at 19:41:27
I don't think it is just a 70's dream. I think that it is something that motivates a lot of people who get into the field. Both before, and since.
Szasz has rather a lot to say about the 'myth of mental illness' idea... Sometimes (in some moods?) I have empathy for what I think he is trying to say (at least some of the time). Other times I don't really follow his line of reasoning / agree with him at all.
One thing that is interesting (perhaps) is that it is his dualism / belief that the soul / mind / spirit is not to be identified with the physical body... That results in his claim that the soul / mind / spirit can only be sick or ill in a metaphoric (rather than literal) sense.
He says it is just as metaphoric to talk of society being sick.
I wonder what he would think of the idea of health (or sickness?) of ecosystems?
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