Firstly let me say "Happy New Year", may it be far better than last year. Late last year my computer crashed and i lost everything. Someone on this forum had...
Someone on this forum had also mentioned the name of a book, at least i think it was on this forum ;))) If i remember rightly the title was something like...
ELAINE: the name of Szasz's book is "Schizophrenia The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Chapter 2: "Anti-Psychiatry: The Model of the Plundered Mind" where Szasz...
Dear Martin, Am only half way through studying Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness". I get the impression that Szasz rejected the medical model of psychiatry,...
Hi Elaine, Thanks for the reply. I've read just about everything Szasz has written, I have all of his books. I think the best recommendation I could make is...
Dear Martin, Am only half way through studying Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness". I get the impression that Szasz rejected the medical model of psychiatry,...
Hi (((((((((((((((((Everyone))))))))))))))))))). I remember seeing on television a while back, a special which demonstrated that through medical/scientific...
Dear Martin, Rather than merely a mechanical concept of mind/brain, it could perhaps be said that the mind/brain has much more of a creative imput, wiring the...
... Brains are "wired" only metaphorically, and metaphors don't show up on brain scans. Scan machines are expensive toys, so physicians and researchers have to...
Of course, "brain wiring" is a metaphor. Memory for which there is a chapter in The Meaning of Mind (Chapter 3: Memory: Fabricating the Past and the Future). ...
Yes, Mira. Yes. Always a pleasure to see your comments in print. Most people when they talk about things psychiatric/neruological use the pseudo scientific...
Sigmund Freud: The doctor is back in On the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth, science is proving he was right by NORMAN DOIDGE MACLEANS | May 05, 2006 It's...
Does this idea mean that if a person thinks "bad thoughts", his brain is changed? Does this notion support the idea of "mental illness"? Do you believe that a...
... The only way to change a book containing good ideas into one containing bad ideas is to physically change the pattern of ink on its pages so that it ...
Alan Forrester said: Likewise, it may be the case that a person with bad thoughts has a different pattern of links between neurons or that the neurons fire ...
What "brain structure" is supposed to be changed by "thinking"? Are there different kinds of "thinking"? When sensory data enter the brain, we would say the...
... Moral judgements made by people change with morality and culture. However, the only people who think that morality itself changes from one culture to ...
Szasz would agree with many of your premises. Whether I am a moral relativist or not has nothing to do with whether I approve of involuntary commitment. I...
In a message dated 2/1/2007 6:58:30 P.M. Central Standard Time, titaniummdk@... writes: Whether I am a moral relativist or not has nothing to do with...
If you have some time, type "involuntary commitment" into an internet search window and see what you find. Have you ever attended an involuntary commitment...
it appears that the person who wrote this message assume that either all of us are citizens of his/hers country or that the psychiatric incarceration procedure...
No, Hagai, I was aware that some group members live in other countries. And I realize that the commitment procedures probably vary even in the U.S. As for...
i referred to the "mental hygiene laws", and to the "mental health courts" in the United States set up under the supervision of the US Justice Department -...
... Hagai, can you supply some evidence for this? The laws I think you are referring to are part of the civil law system (as apposed to the criminal justice...
Hagai, do you know how often people are committed in Israel for being mentally ill? What can you tell us about the reasons that are given for commiting people...
as for the "mental health courts in the United States see attachemnts as for the arabs in psychiatry: it is true that those living outside the israeli...
"do you know how often people are committed in Israel for being >mentally ill?" -just as everywhere else when familes wants to get rid/punish/"re-educate" ...
the attachments did not work so here is the texts: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/79403news07-15-00.htm Saturday, July 15, 2000 Officials Seek Jail Diversion ...
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