The Sociological Study of Mental Illness: A Historical Perspective (2016)
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#3“The Myth of Mental illness” Thomas Szasz
https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/u...
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#4That ends with "The range and scope of this Encyclopedia is vivid testimony to the intellectual vitality of the field, and will, one hopes, make a useful contribution to the next generation of sociological research on the cultural sociology of mental illness." What "encyclopedia"? Was this text copied from the intro to some book?
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#5The terms “sociological” and “illness” (vs disorder) makes this oxymoron a medical perspective, not a historical one. History shows the medical concept of illness as applied to psychological disorders to be reductive and harmful to those affected
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#6The insanity of normality. Arno Gruen.
sincerity is the key to success, once you can fake that you’ve got it made