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Re: terms
Sylvia T. Paldhan (pald1208@tao.sosc.osshe.edu)
Tue, 01 Oct 1996 14:41:14 -0700
dpietrzak@emerald.educ.kent.edu wrote:
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> I wonder how many of you who make these claims have spent any time
> working with this population. Well, How about it?
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> Dale Pietrzak
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I've been around schoolkids on tranquilizers, the retarded-on a
variety of things- and in hospitals, including the psych wards, and with
parolees/convicts.
How about you?
> -> This is a very silly thing to say. Schizophrenia, depression and
> -> bipolar affective disorder are as real as death or money
> No they're not.
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> -Read Thomas Szasz: "The Myth of Mental Illness"
> - "Ceremonial Chemistry" and others.
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> -Read Paula Caplan on the DSM's creation: "They Call You Crazy"
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> -People have, to quote Szasz, "problems in living" not "illnesses".
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"Truth is mighty and will prevail."
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