Amazing UK Anti-Psychiatry site
www.auntiepsychiatry.com
www.auntiepsychiatry.com
"Mental Illness" is one of humanity's most harmful lies. "Psychiatry" (a Victorian Ancient Greek word meaning "Mind Healing") is the pseudo-science and crime that propagates this lie. All people of conscience should continue to work for the total abolition of "Psychiatry" as an official medical discipline; and to end its inherent lies and very serious world-wide human rights abuses. There have been millions of victims of this crime. We must hope that one day there will be no more victims.
Links
- http://www.antipsychiatry.org
- http://www.szasz.com/manifesto.html
- http://www.szasz.com
- http://theszaszblog.blogspot.com
- CCHR
- Blue Panthers
- Network Against Psychiatric Assault
- Speak Out Against Psychiatry
- Mind Freedom
- Psych Rights
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- European Network of (Ex)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
Bibliography
- "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, 1961.
- "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement", Thomas Szasz, 1970.
- "Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
- "Anti-Freud - Karl Kraus' Criticisms of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
- "The Theology of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 1977.
- "The Myth of Psychotherapy", Thomas Szasz, 1978.
- "Insanity - the Idea and its Consequences", Thomas Szasz, 1987.
- "Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market", Thomas Szasz, 1992.
- "The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience", Thomas Szasz, 1996.
- "Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide", Thomas Szasz, 1999.
- "Faith in Freedom", Thomas Szasz, 2004
- "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life", Essays by Thomas Szasz, 2007.
- "Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 2007.
- "Psychiatry: the Science of Lies", Thomas Szasz, 2008.
- "Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared", Thomas Szasz, 2009.
- "Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 2011.
- "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.
World Szasz Day
October 10th should be World Szasz Day. Such is his importance as a thinker.
October 10th - World Mental Health Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mental_Health_Day
October 10th - World Mental Health Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mental_Health_Day
"Mental Illness" is a CATEGORY ERROR
The English philosopher Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) introduced the concept of the CATEGORY ERROR.
A "category error" as according to Ryle is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category.
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He was what is known as an ordinary language philosopher, and an example of twentieth century philosophy's emphasis on language.
A "category error" as according to Ryle is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category.
I believe that the whole concept of "mental illness" is quite simply just such a CATEGORY ERROR, as described by Ryle.
An illness simply cannot be included in - or combined with - the category "mental". It does not and cannot belong in this category. An illness can only be included in the category "physical". It's inclusion in the category "mental" can only be metaphorical and not actual or literal. It is as simple as that. An illness cannot be mental - it can only be physical.
From this category error oceans of suffering, folly and deceit have been engendered.
Given that humans are rational and capable of behaving reasonably - it is to be hoped that this error can be rectified and its terrible results corrected.
Psychiatry is the problem, not people.
I have a problem with Peter Breggin's views.
He believes in "mental illness" and calls himself a "psychiatrist".
I have a problem with Joanna Moncrieff's views.
She believes in "mental illness" and calls herself a "psychiatrist".
I am not just critical of psychiatry, I am against it.
Though of course I am very much in agreement with what Peter Breggin in the USA and Joanna Moncrieff in the UK are saying, and I am very glad they are there.
And I am very glad that the Critical Psychiatry tendency exists!
Their highly sceptical views on psychiatric drugs particularly are an absolutely vital corrective to conventional psychiatry.
What Breggin in the USA and Moncrieff in the UK - and those like them in the Critical Psychiatry movement - fail to fully realize is that Psychiatry is the problem, not people.
If "mental illness" is reconfigured as "problems in living", then obviously everyone encounters problems in living to a certain point. That's a point they seem to miss.
Joanna Moncrieff, for example, has spoken of "this complex thing called madness".
In my opinion, the matter is simple - there is no such thing as madness.
He believes in "mental illness" and calls himself a "psychiatrist".
I have a problem with Joanna Moncrieff's views.
She believes in "mental illness" and calls herself a "psychiatrist".
I am not just critical of psychiatry, I am against it.
Though of course I am very much in agreement with what Peter Breggin in the USA and Joanna Moncrieff in the UK are saying, and I am very glad they are there.
And I am very glad that the Critical Psychiatry tendency exists!
Their highly sceptical views on psychiatric drugs particularly are an absolutely vital corrective to conventional psychiatry.
What Breggin in the USA and Moncrieff in the UK - and those like them in the Critical Psychiatry movement - fail to fully realize is that Psychiatry is the problem, not people.
If "mental illness" is reconfigured as "problems in living", then obviously everyone encounters problems in living to a certain point. That's a point they seem to miss.
Joanna Moncrieff, for example, has spoken of "this complex thing called madness".
In my opinion, the matter is simple - there is no such thing as madness.
About Me
- Citizen Sofa
- I am an amateur FILOSOFER. (I am not really a sofa). I dropped out of Cambridge University though I got an "S" grade in the entrance examination. I eventually received a 1st class Bachelors degree elsewhere. I received A.H.R.B. funding to pursue postgraduate study, but did not do so. Please enjoy my blogs. To parafrase Orwell, I am trying to make political blogging into an art. My intellectual heroes are Kenan Malik, Thomas Szasz and Noam Chomsky. I have made some mistakes in my life - and I would like to apologize wholeheartedly and from the depths of my cushions for any problems I may have caused and may be causing for anyone anywhere.