... I have no objection if YOU yourself, Mr. Michel Latulippe, want to be insane, you are insane. That´s how we market our new advance directive called...
René Talbot
r.talbot@...
Nov 30, 2009 1:35 pm
1993
... You are doing the same as most people on both sides of the argument do: you are assuming we all agree who this hypothetical person is. You are overlooking...
Paranoia and naivety: one of the elements presents in a paranoid process consists in going beyond the superficial appearances of the world in general e.g.,...
Dear Mr. Talbot, I read in the link www.irrenoffensive.de/providence.htm ,from message 1987, the 3rd patch "why `mental illness' does not exist", but, I keep...
... You are correct that the cases of mutilation discussed by Williams weren't committed by psychiatrists, but, in most cases, by a "traditional practitioner."...
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,...
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@...
Nov 15, 2009 11:40 am
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...
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, 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...
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
1982
... *None* of these operations are perpetrated by psychiatrists. Today's practicing psychiatrists have never even heard of such treatments. The history of...
... 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...
... 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...
True. Regardless of whether labelling is harmful or not, Ellis asserted that labels do exist if a person consistently demonstrates a certain behavior. Pies...
... 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...
... 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...
The reason Thomas Szasz has a problem with psychiatrists "lableling" human behavior with the stymatizing lables is who is in power. Psychiatrists have the...
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...
   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...
Hi Michel, Your statement about perception is partly correct. There is actually a branch of psychology called Psychophysics developed by Wilhelm Wundt....
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...
... 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...
... 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...
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