From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 17:08:48 MDT
Lee Corbin:
>Her alleged sanity has nothing to do with it. We are far
>to quick to label as "insane" that behavior which we don't
>condone or don't understand. Did you ever read "The Myth of
>Mental Illness" by Dr. Szasz?
Yes, and I was so disgusted (*), that I put it in the trash. I like
Szasz's writings very much, with the exception of _that_ book.
Amara
(*) He claims that schizophrenia is not a true disease. The one million+
afflicted people have a 'fake disease'. For it to be real, he says, 'it
must be capable of being approached, measured, or tested in a
scientific fashion'. The evidence that schizophrenia is a brain
disease is overwhelming, and this illness _is_ regularly approached,
measured, or tested in a scientific fashion.
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