Dr. Thomas Szasz Exposes Psychiatry

Dr. Thomas Szasz, himself an MD and psychiatrist, exposes psychiatry for the inherent malpractice and abomination that it is. www.szasz.com www.cchr.org

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[jussts]

So, he thinks the brain CAN malfunction and that would be considered a disease but he doesn't believe in mental illness? That seems... retarded.

[libertyeconomics]

@jussts What he's saying is that REAL DISEASE (i.e. a PHYSICAL health problem) can impact the functioning of the brain (i.e. mind), thus causing things like depression, confusion, paranoia, etc. Those things can NOT be placed together and labeled as mental illness. They would be SYMPTOMS of the health problem. Crying is not a disease. Depression is not a disease.

[210482fmj]

he fails to also point out that there is no such thing as attention defecit disorder as it is just made up as a way to control and manipulatie parent of kids. Its beyond belief that half the population will believe whatever sombody tells them because they have a label psychiatrist. if so called mental disorders were really a disorder then why would we of been given the abilitiy to experience something. why would what nature already intended be an illness.

[libertyeconomics]

@210482fmj You don't need to convince me. Not wanting to take their drugs is itself a psychiatric illness, thus anybody who refuses to see a psychiatrist and take their drugs...needs psychiatric drugs. If I were to tell somebody they needed to see a shrink, and they said they didn't want to because they don't need to and they didn't like the stigmatization, I could call that paranoia.

[clk211bu]

No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease, that't not what diseases are. So it doesn't matter how a child behaves.There is nothing to examine. Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Dr. Thomas Szasz, himself an MD and psychiatrist, exposes psychiatry for the inherent malpractice and abomination that it is. Thankyou for sharing this! Finally, common sense.

[cinematicbr]

p$ychiatry

[Drhamburgerhill]

I bet you 43 psychiatrist disliked this video

[msss432]

@SilverTminus10 ssri's equal medicine to help people

[msss432]

clearly behavior in and of itself is not an illness.... hardly relevant nor is it an issue... several also seem to stress "physical illness" as if it were separate from mental illness.... entirely wrong despite popular belief schizophrenia, severe depression, OCD are entirely neurological and thus physical... pretending that people who have serious mental illness are just "behaving" or have a physical illness... yes they do that physical illness its called mental illness

[skirts365]

@JimBowie1133 It depends on definitions. Benjamin Rush father of American psychiatry signed the Declaration of Independence. He said Blacks skin color was due to disease! In 1850's Sam Cartwright coined "drapetomania" to refer to slaves wish to escape! In the 1870's the NY Times spoke of "dress reform disease" referencing women who wanted to wear pants! Psych enforces the social order by calling "disorders" attempts to alter any salient part of the established order! Psych = F-R-A-U-D!!!!

[skirts365]

@JimBowie1133 No need to conceptualize; your example is a response to life's problems; ease the problem, solve the manifestation. Problems are not disorders! If a bookcase is toppled, books spill across the floor, you can call that disorder; but if the case & books are yours, it's not anyone else's biz to decide how you arrange them is "disordered." The psych cult continually alters terminology & invents terms to make it seem as if progress in science is taking place; it's more regimentation!

[JimBowie1133]

@skirts365 , So how do we conceptualize these 'behaviors'? I understand that technically a behavior is not an illness per se. But what of compulsive behaviors like trichotillomania - compulsion to pull hair out - if this behavior is not an illness, would you consider it a mental disorder? Or are you saying there are no such things as mental disorders?

[skirts365]

@JimBowie1133 1st the term mental illness needs constraining; it can be & is used at whim to call any activity anyone dislikes a "disease." That's a strategy, not a fact. Mental illness can be an aneurysm; tumor; head injury; alzheimer's etc (real diseases!) Behavior is NOT "illness!" It's dangerous to medicalize behavior! Medicine can't treat moral problems! Disagreements & conflicts are called "illnesses" and that's more fraud! Compare to the Inquisition & witch hunts "mental illness!"

[JimBowie1133]

'psychiatrists have for hundreds of years used diagnostic terms' - WTH

psychiatry is barely 100 years old

[JimBowie1133]

@skirts365 , Psychiatry may be a fraud, but mental illness is very real. What approach do you suggest should be used in studying and treating mental illness if biological approaches are fraudulent?