@freemo Oh, sorry. I was making a joke, but probably too much of an in-joke for a specific field. Thomas Szasz was a Swedish (?) psychiatrist who didn't believe in the concept of "mental disorders"; he only believed in diseases or injuries whose causes could clearly be shown in physical substrates, like abnormal brain structure or genetic mutations, etc. (note: psychiatrist = MD, so that approach isn't totally surprising).
I think I might even remember his famous quote:
"Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of conflicts in human relations."
(That's the internet version, but I learned it in grad school as "...whose function is to make palatable the bitter pill of human suffering and immorality." I'll have to google and see if my remembered-quote is something he said).
Anyway, my (bad) joke is that he could totally have written this book (and he did write one called "The Myth of Mental Illness").
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@freemo Oh, sorry. I was making a joke, but probably too much of an in-joke for a specific field. Thomas Szasz was a Swedish (?) psychiatrist who didn't believe in the concept of "mental disorders"; he only believed in diseases or injuries whose causes could clearly be shown in physical substrates, like abnormal brain structure or genetic mutations, etc. (note: psychiatrist = MD, so that approach isn't totally surprising).
I think I might even remember his famous quote:
"Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of conflicts in human relations."
(That's the internet version, but I learned it in grad school as "...whose function is to make palatable the bitter pill of human suffering and immorality." I'll have to google and see if my remembered-quote is something he said).
Anyway, my (bad) joke is that he could totally have written this book (and he did write one called "The Myth of Mental Illness").