The implementation and/or adoption of the Szasz Manifesto and its principles would not in any way be a novelty - but a reversion to the STATUS QUO of cultural norms that existed (and still does for some lucky cultures!) - all over the world before around 1890 or so perhaps.
"If you knew your history, you would know where you were coming from !...."
"Mental Illness" is an ethnocentric concept.
Or perhaps an ERACENTRIC concept is more accurate.
The author of The Psalms would be "imprisoned - for an illness" under our current utterly unenlightened cultural paradigm.
We are medicalising everyday life. We must stop doing so.
CitizenSofa commented on
Nelson Mandela 'fake' interpreter admitted to psychiatric hospital.
20 Dec 2013:
"Schizophrenia" was invented in Darkest Switzerland in the 1880s.
It does not exist.
It is part of a European-in-origin crime against humanity called "Psychiatry".
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The chap concerned may believe that his odd or mistaken behavior is a "symptom" of an "illness".
Well how can that be ?
On its own terms!
I think he believes that because a culture told him that this was the explanation.
You can be sure it was not a native African culture that told him that that was the explanation!
"If you knew your history, you would know where you were coming from !...."
"Mental Illness" is an ethnocentric concept.
Or perhaps an ERACENTRIC concept is more accurate.
The author of The Psalms would be "imprisoned - for an illness" under our current utterly unenlightened cultural paradigm.
We are medicalising everyday life. We must stop doing so.
CitizenSofa commented on
Nelson Mandela 'fake' interpreter admitted to psychiatric hospital.
20 Dec 2013:
"Schizophrenia" was invented in Darkest Switzerland in the 1880s.
It does not exist.
It is part of a European-in-origin crime against humanity called "Psychiatry".
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The chap concerned may believe that his odd or mistaken behavior is a "symptom" of an "illness".
Well how can that be ?
On its own terms!
I think he believes that because a culture told him that this was the explanation.
You can be sure it was not a native African culture that told him that that was the explanation!
