All Posts Tagged With: "schizophrenia"
Mendacity by Metaphor
Once upon a time, law-abiding citizens acknowledged that they wanted lawbreakers punished. They did not say the offenders “needed” punishment. When they used the term “need” metaphorically—as when an outlaw in a bar told his buddies that one of their adversaries “needed” killing—they knew what they were talking about. They did not lie to themselves, [...]
1Oct2008 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedWas the Beautiful Mind Sick?
A Beautiful Mind has economics as its background. The foreground is reserved for mental illness and its treatment. As the movie tells the story, John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who arrogantly alienates the people around him, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which in his case has him hallucinating about a nonexistent roommate and a government intelligence [...]
1Aug2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRemembering Masturbatory Insanity
“Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.” —Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds The contemporary mental health movement—epitomized by the dogmatic belief that “mental illness [...]
1May2000 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | Continued-
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