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  • Szasz: The Myth of Mental Illness
    • Key Points:
      • 1. Fifty years of change in US mental healthcare
      • 2. A medical or legal concept?
      • 3. How perceptions have changed.
      • 4. Mental illness in the eye of the beholder
      • 5. Having a mental illness does not make a patient out of an individual
    • Points made in 1960
      • Mental health care consisted of mental hospitals or non-medical practictioners
      • Mental patients are treated no better than prisoners: unable to leave and no ability to appeal
      • Mental illness is not a disease like a physical disease
      • Mental illness does not exist, no point to looking for causes or cures
    • Reconsiderations in 2011
      • All mental health is regulated and paid for by public money
      • Political and legal decrees have labelled mental illness as a disease and have included non-diseases such as ADHD
      • Mental illness is a misdiagnosis of a physical abnormality in the brain
      • If someone does something evil  it is seen as mental illness by doctors
      • Medicine relies on consent for physical illness, why is this different for mental illness
      • People have reasons for behaviour that need to be understood, not treated.

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