Just heard on our news: A 35-yr-old man has been acquitted of attempting manslaughter by throwing the electrical switches in a hospital cellar, causing ...
... Thank goodness. I was beginning to show symptoms of encephalitis aggrandisementitis. ;) I'd like to ask you though, in future, to remove superfluous quotes...
What about Ellis' point that we use labels to describe psychiatrists behaviors, and why are those lablels considered ok but not terms to describe "mental...
... Mira, I read all the archived messages pointed out to me. There are things relevant to understanding and some connected to perception. For instance, the...
... What if we change the definition to a figure with four angles? The definition of, say, schizophrenia, has changed a zillion times over, including with...
Yesterday, at Fort Hood Texas there was a rampage. 13 people are dead and many other injured. Watching the news, at some point, the question was raised if the...
Hi Michel, Your statement about perception is partly correct. There is actually a branch of psychology called Psychophysics developed by Wilhelm Wundt....
   my poiint was that in the Szasz vs. AL Ellis debate that the latter asserted that Tom was stigmatizing psychiatrists based on a REPEATED pattern of...
I wonder if it was easier for the Ft. Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, to commit murder as it is already customary for members of his profession to commit...
The reason Thomas Szasz has a problem with psychiatrists "lableling" human behavior with the stymatizing lables is who is in power. Psychiatrists have the...
... There are thoughts, words and the objects in its reality. A definition in order to be good must fit the reality of the object. This is why we are not...
... Female circumcision? What has that to do with psychiatry? I've heard of many mass shootings, but this is the first one by a psychiatrist I've heard of (not...
True. Regardless of whether labelling is harmful or not, Ellis asserted that labels do exist if a person consistently demonstrates a certain behavior. Pies...
... By law, it is always the judge. But the judge, considering himself incompetent to judge "medical" matters, bases his decision on the recommendation of the...
... In 'Sex by Prescription' Dr. Szasz explains: 'The treatment of masturbation by means of surgery reached its apogee, as might be expected, when the patient...
... *None* of these operations are perpetrated by psychiatrists. Today's practicing psychiatrists have never even heard of such treatments. The history of...
Mira writes: "we can accomplish little if anything by dredging up psychiatry's past sins. On the contrary, that will only elicit the response that it has...
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Nov 12, 2009 4:09 pm
1984
Hagai, I agree with your philosophy, but disagree with your politics. The vast majority of people aren't interested in psychiatry's futile search for the...
every thing has its own right time sometime it is useful to conduct a learned discussion on the origins of psychiatry's methods, its origins and various...
I look at the web site suggested by Hagai www.iaapa.org.il and I read some parts of René Talbot papers. He recalls having said at the US custom that he never...
Dear Michel and the other readers of this list, ... As you mention my papers, I would like to refer other readers to these of my texts in English: ...
René Talbot
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Nov 15, 2009 11:40 am
1988
Hi René, I have some problems with your definition of illness, because a. changes in body tissue cannot always be identified (think of things like fatigue,...
... You are correct that the cases of mutilation discussed by Williams weren't committed by psychiatrists, but, in most cases, by a "traditional practitioner."...
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