Re: terms
dpietrzak@emerald.educ.kent.edu
Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:04:40 GMT
I wonder how many of you who make these claims have spent any time
working with this population. Well, How about it?
Dale Pietrzak
pald1208 <pald1208@tao.sosc.osshe.edu> wrote:
-David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
->
-> ebc@ix.netcom.com(Errol Back-Cunningham) wrote:
->
-> >>In <5292g0$6mq@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
-> >>writes:
-> >>[snip]
-> >>
-> >>>The "affect" referred to in schizoaffective is not affectation, but
-> >>>affect, which means mood, with a slight bias toward meaning the
-> >>>external manifestations of mood.
-> >>
-> > In fact the whole thing is just good old psychobabble.
->
-> Errol,
->
-> This is a very silly thing to say. Schizophrenia, depression and
-> bipolar affective disorder are as real as death or money, and you
-> scoff at them at your peril. They affect a big chunk of a percent of
-> the population, which means you're meeting several of them every day,
-> probably begging on the street if you live in a large city.
->
-> -dlj.No they're not.
-Read Thomas Szasz: "The Myth of Mental Illness"
- "Ceremonial Chemistry" and others.
-Read Paula Caplan on the DSM's creation: "They Call You Crazy"
-People have, to quote Szasz, "problems in living" not "illnesses".
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