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Re: oh » linkadge

Posted by Chairman_MAO on March 7, 2006, at 12:11:42

In reply to Re: oh » Chairman_MAO, posted by linkadge on March 4, 2006, at 9:27:34

Specifically, I am in agreement with the Rat Park investigator, who said:

" The disease model has been "embellished in the news media", to the point, he writes, "where the belief in drug-induced addiction has acquired the status of an obvious truth that requires no further testing." The widespread acceptance of this belief "is a better demonstration of the power of repetition than of the influence of empirical research ..." [9]

See also: http://www.szasz.com/addiction.pdf
and various works by Stanton Peele.

Mental illness CANNOT be a medical illness per se because physiological pathologies of the brain are the domain of neurology. A pathology is nothing except that which is identifiable post-mortem. My suffering of depression is irrelevant to this. The suffering in mental illness is real, and there certainly may be undetected abnormalities on a psychobiological level. However, until what such a problem is can even be defined--which it is has not, otherwise antidepressant monographs would not claim that the mechanism of action is unknown--there is no such thing as mental illness as defined by most psychiatrists and other professionals in the field. If you know of an argument to the contrary (especially in a peer-reviewed publication or other scholarly work) I am always interested in hearing it. Despite what you may think I have a very open mind about this, and have never heard anything that vitiates the Szasz argument.


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