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...
Hi Elaine Thanks for your kind words. Yes of course there are cases of justifiable homicide, self defense, or people driven to their actions by circumstances -...
Hello Darren After 200 years of 'schizophrenia' there is still no pathology which can detect this 'disease', so it doesn't actually belong in any pathology...
I might be more inclined to accept the existence of schizophrenia if, as most people think, the diagnosis was only applied to people who hear voices. Then it...
... The drugs will do this to them too. ... No, but neither is there an identifiable cause in epilepsy and other somatic afflictions. I.m.o. what disqualifies...
actually, according to "Thomas Szasz's concept" the responsibility lies with YOU, the one who hear another person saying ""I'm not in love with anyone, the...
Jonny said: I might be more inclined to accept the existence of schizophrenia if, as most people think, the diagnosis was only applied to people who hear...
... It is tempting for opponents of psychiatry to adopt the same methods as proponents of psychiatry, namely accept research results that confirm their beliefs...
... I think these test are a modern version of the Rorschach test, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Rorschach rene talbot [Non-text portions of this...
Dearest ((((((((((((((((((((((Martin & Jonny)))))))))))))))), Jonny said: I might be more inclined to accept the existence of schizophrenia if, as most people...
Very good point, Martin. I have said before that actually absolutely everybody hears voices in their head: when you or I are thinking and mulling things over...
Hello Mira These are all very good points, except one: Of course there is such a thing as mind; without a mind we would be unable to think, feel, question,...
I would be interested to know what Dr. Szasz's views on eastern practices of meditation are. Here we have a method of self-improvement or self-help that does...
Hi Mirah, Szasz already held the belief that "auditory hallucinations" were no more than disavowed thoughts prior to the brain imaging studies he referred to...
Hi Jonny, I don't think Szasz rated various religions (like eastern meditation practices) on their therapeutic values. He was against forced religious...
... Yes, I did. I was overly eager to refer you to the article on scans. Sorry. ... Okay, I confess, that's me, but I'm not the only Mira in the world, not ...
... I disagree: it is sufficient to criticizes as first priority the coercion psychiatry executes (executes without consent contrary to a sado-maso play). The...
Thanks for the reply mira, I see what you mean. Szasz was using the term "pseudoinsane" in a humourous maybe even sarcastic way - sort of like looking at...
... I'm pretty sure Dr. Szasz would agree with you on that. But I don't. There has never been a libertarian society. In each society, some liberties are gained...
... So you are convinced that a libertarian revolution of society (resulting in an abandonment of the state) is the precondition to overcome psychiatric...
... I am precisely making the point that it is not, and that I would not want to wait for such a revolution that will never happen. Abolition of state power is...
Here's an account from a Tibetan lama who overcame what he describes as "panic disorder" thru meditation practice, without psychiatric intervention. It is...
Mira wrote: Maybe it will be possible to persuade politicians and> lawmakers to abandon their belief in psychiatry before they are> persuaded to leave us free?...
Saw a bio piece on Jeffrey Dahmer recently that talked about his use of a crude form of lobotomy on his victims in an attempt to create zombies who would serve...
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