What do u think of the suggestion that

The concept and image of self is a social-construction.

Not feeling at ease or feeling dis-ease is the conscious becoming conscious,

where the subject attempts to escape this merely created image, an attempt to
discover and be an

authentic self, as in a subject with an authentic experience in being. However,
society perceives

this not feeling at ease or dis-ease as threatening their normalcy, society
believing that those

not feeling at ease or dis-eased have need of psychiatry to help them

comply and conform. While psychiatry is set up to force outcasts to

comply and conform, psychiatry's insistence that the patient's dis-ease with

their existential condition is in fact a disease, finds the patient forced into
a position

where their obsessive need to define a fixed position in reality is that which
actually

makes manifest a mental illness.



Kind Regards

Elaine



----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Kessler
To: thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] Question re good books


From: Martin Kessler

Anyone interested in seeing what Szasz really thinks about Laing, should
read Szasz's book, Schizophrenia. His chapter on Laing is highly critical
(understatement).

>From: mirah@...
>Reply-To: thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com
>To: thomasszaszdiscussion@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] Question re good books
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:47:51 +0200
>
>Elaine wrote:
>
> > With regard to Szasz, Laing
>
>Please be careful naming Szasz and Laing in one breath. Their views have
>little in common.
>
> > someone/anyone suggest some good books to study
>
>As this list is dedicated to the work of Thomas Szasz, I suggest you
>start with his books. I couldn't tell you which one is best, as every
>time I (re-)read one I tend to think "This is his best book." What I can
>say is that his most recent books are every bit as excellent as his
>older books which have become much-quoted classics.
>
>Mira
>
>
>






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