HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ken Kesey, Thomas Szasz, Deinstitutionalisation
13 Sep 2020
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Most famous anti-psychiatrist, unlike the others, he was more right- wing . Libertarian; the myth of mental illness (basically saying that mental illnesses doesn"t exist) mental illness = problems in living ; euphemism for deviant behaviour. Psychiatry a pseudo-science, equivalent for astrology or alchemy no regard for method. Real disease not only exhibited in behaviour, should appear in autopsies (see the illness in a dead person"s body, he was looking for a biomarker) szaszian criticism of psychiatry as. Psychiatrists have avoided fully and publicly disclosing what they actually do something magical or mystical. What psychiatrists do is actually dependent on whatever the psychiatrist says she does no clear definition or rules to play by not scientific basically, circular logic: shouldn"t be so many competing ideas. Attacked historicity (u can use the past to predict the future) in psychiatry rejects involuntary commitment on the grounds of dangerousness.
