Mystification and Confusion in Recent Critique of Psychiatry
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https://doi.org/10.65828/bf86w255Keywords:
Psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, Aaron Esterson, R. D. Laing, existential analysis, psychiatric drag, psychiatric bias, mental illnessAbstract
The taboo against exposing the greatest hoax of the modern era – the construction of the myth of mental illness and psychiatry's attempts to treat 'it' – is as powerful as ever. In this paper I argue that the current era of psychiatric criticism only serves to reinforce it. I clarify a guiding principle of authentic existential practice as a corrective.
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