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Re: terms
Steve Gordon (Lapeplau@ucla.edu)
4 Oct 1996 00:18:54 GMT
In article <32518FFA.38DA@tao.sosc.osshe.edu>, "Sylvia T. Paldhan"
<pald1208@tao.sosc.osshe.edu> wrote:
> dpietrzak@emerald.educ.kent.edu wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how many of you who make these claims have spent any time
> > working with this population. Well, How about it?
> >
> > Dale Pietrzak
> >
>
> 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.
> >
> > -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".
>
> --
> "Truth is mighty and will prevail."
None of this psycho-babble has any relevance to sociology. Please keep it
out of our newsgroup!!
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