On the Ignorance of Psychiatry and the Ignorance of Critics
The less we understand about a disease or a symptom, the more we psychologize, and often stigmatize, it.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Dunning called this effect ‘the anosognosia of everyday life’, referring to a neurological condition in which a disabled person either denies or seems unaware of their disability. He stated: ‘If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent … The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a r
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Szaszians hold on to a fantasy where an objective definition of “disorder” not only exists, but it also successfully covers recognized disorders in general medicine while conveniently excluding mental illnesses as faux-disorders. Szaszians also commit themselves to some version of the idea that medical authority only applies to genuine disorders, a... See more
Reviewing Paul Bloom on Psychopathology
« Dans de nombreux cas psychiatriques, écrit-il, le malade a une histoire qu’on ne raconte pas et qu’en général, personne ne connaît. Pour moi, la véritable thérapie ne commence qu’une fois examinée l’histoire personnelle. Celle-ci représente le secret du malade, secret qui l’a brisé. En même temps cette histoire renferme la clé du traitement. Il e
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