Status Updates From Ideology and Insanity: Essa...

this guy is crazy.. i like some of his points on how mental illness is socially constructed. but then he argues that social funding and collectivism are wrong. what is this guy on about

in short, when one speaks of mental illness, the norm from which deviation is measured is a psychosocial and ethical standard. yet, the remedy is sought in terms of medical measures that —it is hoped and assumed— are free from wide differences of ethical value pg 15

“modern psychiatric ideology is an adaptation —to a scientific age—of the traditional ideology of Christian Theology. instead of being born into sin, man is born into sickness.” pg. 5

It is suggest that the phenomena now called mental illnesses be locked at afresh and more simply, that they be removed from the category of illnesses, and that they be regarded as the expressions of man's struggle with the problem of how he should live.

me lo estoy leyendo en el movil y no estoy sufriendo mucho la verdad. hola.