CNN has an article on a new treatment for depression, gJolting the brain fights deep depressiong ... regulating the abnormal signals to brain causing the...
Here is a quote from Szasz's book Coersion as Cure p 148: " It appears that neither psychiatrists, nor the editors of medical and scientific publications, nor...
The WSJ today has a page one article discussing the case of a man, William Bruce, who murdered his wife. Clearly in the mind of the authors who write the...
Recently I was talking with an old friend who felt aided by taking a personality test. Presumably it helped this person make useful discoveries. I've never...
Hi Matt, I'm glad to see a posting to this list. It would be nice if we could get the discussion going again. Regarding personality tests, I don't believe in...
Hi Matt, From what you have written I gather that the journalist and the advocates accepted the diagnosis of schizophrenia for William Bruce. Szasz believes...
... Yes, when the person is competent. From the article, Bruce sounds pretty coherent, so we can assume he's competent. But what about someone who isn't? Say...
Martin, What if person gets hit in head and can no longer make appropriate decisions? As a result, they killpeople, etc? What should we do? D ... From:...
Hi Matt, Getting hit in the head is a literal lesion. And like epilepsy, once a person knows they have this literal condition, assuming they can function...
Hi Mira, Downs syndrome and Alzheimers aren't mental illnesses ( although psychiatrists would like to encompass them in their diagnostic nosology to give say...
... Depends on how you define mental illness. Psychiatrists are the ones in whom the state vests the power to define them, and they include them. But I wasn't...
... When a person can respond consistently to questions about what is going on around him and what he wants then he is competent, when he can't do this he...
Yes, but should a person with a lesion who kills people be inv. committed or imprisoned? Why isn't epilepsy included in standard pathology books? Why cant...
... The standard explanation is that the prison lacks the facilities and expertise to properly care for the person. The psych institution doesn't have those...
... This question is ill-posed in at least two separate ways. (1) We don't currently do this because nobody in our legal system cares about the answer and so...
This is a great quote from a book review of Kenneth M. Pollack's A ... http://tinyurl.com/5nt28b I have no interest in debating middle-eastern policy, which...
Hi Mira, Your comments on the person accused of schizophrenia were very helpful, thanks. Regarding personality tests ... ... My problem with personality tests...
People have always used other people's wisdom and information to understand themselves and that is what this person did to make use of this test. No man is...
... Ooooo, I do love compliments, thanks Matt. Just for the record, my opinions carry no authority. I'm not even the list-owner. ... What do you mean by "we...
Jeffrey Poland, PhD, has reviewed The Medicalization of Everyday Life. Lines of interest include "Szasz's constructive proposals for change are limited" and...
One wonders why Poland expends to so much effort in reading the book, detailing the arguments set forth in most of the chapters, to then finish with line after...
Many diseases that are listed in STANDARD pathology textbooks have been placed in there before they were Definitively decided to be diseases. Any comments on...
What's up with David Duchovny (star of 'X-files' and 'Californication') checking into rehab for sex addiction? Is this seriously considered a "mental illness"?...
Szasz has no problem with products and services offered in a free market. Duchovny's character checking into a sex addiction clinic is now a part our...
The DSM is not a pathology textbook, no pathology has been used to 'discover' these so called 'diseases' - in fact no verified case study of any kind has been...
To get back to the point: I have never heard of a case of someone with a genuine neurological condition such as epilepsy going out and commiting murder or any...
Dear ((((((((((((((((Jonny)))))))))))))))))))), I agree with u completely. For starters i do not believe that mental illness as in ill thinking has anything to...
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