This fundamental shift needs to be made:
The idea that there are some people who are in their very essence and irretrievably "insane", "mad" or "mentally ill" and other people who are not is a mistake, a lie, a falsehood.
It is a primitive, pre-scientific, pre-civilised way of seeing humans.
For example, a programme on television recently about mental health showed
photgraphs at an exhibtion called "Insanity in Focus" with "images of insanity" in history or something like that at the Institute of Psychiatry.
This is insane! In other words I disagree with it.
The only insane thing about this exhibition is its title.
There is no such thing as "insanity".
The idea that there are some people who are in their very essence and irretrievably "insane", "mad" or "mentally ill" and other people who are not is a mistake, a lie, a falsehood.
It is a primitive, pre-scientific, pre-civilised way of seeing humans.
For example, a programme on television recently about mental health showed
photgraphs at an exhibtion called "Insanity in Focus" with "images of insanity" in history or something like that at the Institute of Psychiatry.
This is insane! In other words I disagree with it.
The only insane thing about this exhibition is its title.
There is no such thing as "insanity".