https://barelyablog.com/mental-maladies-tucker-and-mainstream-discover-what-thomas-szasz-explained-in-1960/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/mental-maladies-tucker-and-mainstream-discover-what-thomas-szasz-explained-in-1960/comment-page-1/#comment-31129 Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:09:17 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=159949#comment-31129 Recommended:
Gary Greenberg, “The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry”
John Alexander Wieriman, “Counseling: A Profession or a Trade?”

]]> https://barelyablog.com/mental-maladies-tucker-and-mainstream-discover-what-thomas-szasz-explained-in-1960/comment-page-1/#comment-31115 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:03:33 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=159949#comment-31115 As a doctoral candidate in psychology in the early 1970’s I found Dr. Szasz’s work actually refreshing and stimulating. Over the ensuing years I have often witnessed not only the professions need of but a societal dependency on the “placebo effect”. What I was unprepared for was the vehemence involved in defense of the irrationality in the theory and practice of identifying, naming, categorizing and supposedly treating aberrant behaviors. But what became alarming was that recent graduates of medical and graduate psychology schools had no frame of reference to ask those types of questions. And raising them brought anger and fear.

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