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.
