Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
thomasszaszdiscussion · the Thomas Szasz discussion group
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Show off your group to the world. Share a photo of your group with us.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
Messages 1961 - 1990 of 1990   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Messages: Simplify | Expand   (Group by Topic) Author Sort by Date ^
1961
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 ...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Oct 27, 2009
9:48 pm
1962
... Mira they are many points in your message. I disagree with almost all of them though I comment here only one of them i.e. the reality of mental...
michel.latulippe
michel.latul...
Offline Send Email
Oct 28, 2009
4:15 pm
1963
... Thank goodness. I was beginning to show symptoms of encephalitis aggrandisementitis. ;) I'd like to ask you though, in future, to remove superfluous quotes...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Oct 28, 2009
11:54 pm
1964
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...
D Waters
cubyanks
Offline Send Email
Nov 6, 2009
12:48 am
1965
... 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...
michel.latulippe
michel.latul...
Offline Send Email
Nov 6, 2009
12:49 am
1966
... Sorry, who is Ellis? On this list? ... Are psychiatrists imprisoned and drugged on account of those labels?...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 9, 2009
11:27 pm
1967
... 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...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 9, 2009
11:28 pm
1968
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...
michel.latulippe
michel.latul...
Offline Send Email
Nov 9, 2009
11:29 pm
1969
Hi Michel, Your statement about perception is partly correct. There is actually a branch of psychology called Psychophysics developed by Wilhelm Wundt....
Martin Kessler
titaniummdk
Offline Send Email
Nov 9, 2009
11:29 pm
1970
... Oh, certainly! One accusation against psychiatry that would be totally unfair is that it is shy of labels. This one even appears in the DSM....
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 10, 2009
10:01 am
1971
    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...
D Waters
cubyanks
Offline Send Email
Nov 10, 2009
11:08 pm
1972
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...
sangchenyeshe
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
10:09 am
1973
The reason Thomas Szasz has a problem with psychiatrists "lableling" human behavior with the stymatizing lables is who is in power. Psychiatrists have the...
Martin Kessler
titaniummdk
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
10:11 am
1974
... 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...
michel.latulippe
michel.latul...
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
2:44 pm
1975
... 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...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
7:30 pm
1976
True. Regardless of whether labelling is harmful or not, Ellis asserted that labels do exist if a person consistently demonstrates a certain behavior. Pies...
D Waters
cubyanks
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
7:31 pm
1977
... Actually, there is such a thing as a citizen's arrest. But not a citizen's diagnosis. That would be practicing medicine without a license....
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 11, 2009
7:31 pm
1978
... 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...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
10:30 am
1979
... 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...
sangchenyeshe
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
10:31 am
1980
You can not arrest a police officer. You can only perform a citizen's arrest on another citizen as an emergency measure. Martin To:...
Martin Kessler
titaniummdk
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
10:33 am
1981
... You're right, I overlooked the word policeman. Sorry....
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
11:13 am
1982
... *None* of these operations are perpetrated by psychiatrists. Today's practicing psychiatrists have never even heard of such treatments. The history of...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
11:13 am
1983
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...
(no author)
(no email address)
Send Email
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...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
5:02 pm
1985
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...
Hagai Aviel
hagaiaviel
Offline Send Email
Nov 12, 2009
9:48 pm
1986
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...
michel.latulippe
michel.latul...
Offline Send Email
Nov 13, 2009
3:31 pm
1987
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
r.talbot@...
Send Email
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,...
mirah@...
miradevries
Offline Send Email
Nov 15, 2009
5:32 pm
1989
... So we agree on the key question but rather have some disagreements on ideological grounds. rEne...
René Talbot
r.talbot@...
Send Email
Nov 16, 2009
2:32 pm
1990
... You are correct that the cases of mutilation discussed by Williams weren't committed by psychiatrists, but, in most cases, by a "traditional practitioner."...
sangchenyeshe
Offline Send Email
Nov 16, 2009
5:15 pm
Messages 1961 - 1990 of 1990   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Advanced
Add to My Yahoo!      XML What's This?

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help