All Posts Tagged With: "psychotherapy"
Medicalizing Quackery
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines “medicalize” as “to view or treat as a medical concern, problem, or disorder” and offers this phrase as illustration: “those who seek to dispose of social problems by medicalizing them.” Accordingly, we speak of the medicalization of homosexuality and hostility, but do not speak of the medicalization of malaria or [...]
1Oct2007 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedPlagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge
Every generation wants to believe that it will know more than the previous one, and this knowledge will lead necessarily to material and spiritual improvement and the elimination of the moral and physical evils from which humanity has suffered for ages. Although faith in progress has enabled people to achieve great things, it has also [...]
1Sep2000 | Charles Stampul | 0 comments | Continued-
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