From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 20:14:52 MDT
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Schizophrenia exists. I have witnessed:
(+ drugs)
crazy person ==========> normal person
YP
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