mental illness

medicine

psychology

ology (the study of)

mind

phobia

creativity

gene

trivia

academia

academics

adulthood

depression

symptom

trauma

bad decision

drug abuse

being inappropriate

ADHD

dopamine

disability

autism

BDSM

kink

is a myth arising out of the fact that psychiatry misclassifies ethical problems as medical ones. Mental illness is a vice.

is not a matter of medical science. Hallucinations, rather than involving symptoms requiring treatment, are disowned self-conversations created by patients and capable of being stopped by them.

I do not regard hallucinations and delusions as 'symptoms' requiring 'treatment.' I view hallucinations as disowned selfconversations and delusions as stubborn errors or lies. Both are created by 'patients,' and could be stopped by them'

is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but rather the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz

's foundation is always the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Carl Jung

is a myth whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

Mental illness is a myth whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. In asserting that there is no such thing as mental illness I do not deny that people have problems coping with life and each other.

is a problem for the mental patient's family and society; for the patient himself it is a 'solution.'

For the mental patient's family and society, mental ill- ness is a 'problem'; for the patient himself it is a 'solution'. This was Freud's only discovery. Psychoanalysts now ignore it, and psychiatrists deny it.

's attribution is both an accusation and an excuse.

The attribution of mental illness is both an accusation and an excuse. Which of these elements predominates in any particular situation depends on the context and its consequences; it cannot be inferred from the semantic use of the phrase 'mental illness'. This is why psychiatric (and other) accounts of persons characterized as mentally ill that omit any reference to who the person is, how and why he came to be so 'diagnosed', and what happened to him as a consequence are virtually meaningless: they are merely reaffirmations of the claim that mental illness qua illness is not a fiction but a fact.

mental illness, n.Definitions

mental illness