"...the imbecilic term "antipsychiatry""
Thomas Szasz.
"As a result of the antipsychiatrists's self-seeking sloganeering, psychiatrists can now do what no other members of a medical specialty can do: they can dismiss critics of any aspect of accepted psychiatric practice by labeling them "antipsychiatrists."
The obstetrician who eschews abortion on demand is not stigmatized as an "antiobstetrician."
The surgeon who eschews transsexual operations is not dismissed as an "antisurgeon.""
Thomas Szasz.
Perhaps in a sense it is a silly term.
But in the sense that Psychiatry cannot be a medical discipline - and in many other senses - it is a very acceptable term.
It is important to note that like almost all terms in this area of verbal abuse "imbecile" has NO scientific meaning whatsoever.
It may supposedly have done in origin. But it simply a term of abuse now.
"Cretin" meant "Christian" in origin.
"Idiot" is a term of abuse and nothing more with an obscure pseuod-scientific origin as so many have.
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"While many antipsychiatrists pay lip service to rejecting the "medical model" of psychiatry, they continue to conceptualize certain human problems and efforts to resolve them in medical terms and, even more importantly, do not categorically reject "therapeutic" coercion and excuse-making."
Thomas Szasz.
Well I am very much opposed to "Psychiatry" and hence ANTI-PSYCHIATRY.
As everyone of conscience should be.
If not an "Antipsychiatrist" and it is not clear what one is!....
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Since psychiatry is a bogus endeavour, the profession and medical speciality should simply be abolished. It has no use and no future.
Given the crimes of psychiatry, regardless of the crimes of those who invented the term "anti-psychiatry", the term has a place I believe.
Is "anti-slavery" or "anti-racism" an imbecilic term?
Thomas Szasz.
"As a result of the antipsychiatrists's self-seeking sloganeering, psychiatrists can now do what no other members of a medical specialty can do: they can dismiss critics of any aspect of accepted psychiatric practice by labeling them "antipsychiatrists."
The obstetrician who eschews abortion on demand is not stigmatized as an "antiobstetrician."
The surgeon who eschews transsexual operations is not dismissed as an "antisurgeon.""
Thomas Szasz.
Perhaps in a sense it is a silly term.
But in the sense that Psychiatry cannot be a medical discipline - and in many other senses - it is a very acceptable term.
It is important to note that like almost all terms in this area of verbal abuse "imbecile" has NO scientific meaning whatsoever.
It may supposedly have done in origin. But it simply a term of abuse now.
"Cretin" meant "Christian" in origin.
"Idiot" is a term of abuse and nothing more with an obscure pseuod-scientific origin as so many have.
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"While many antipsychiatrists pay lip service to rejecting the "medical model" of psychiatry, they continue to conceptualize certain human problems and efforts to resolve them in medical terms and, even more importantly, do not categorically reject "therapeutic" coercion and excuse-making."
Thomas Szasz.
Well I am very much opposed to "Psychiatry" and hence ANTI-PSYCHIATRY.
As everyone of conscience should be.
.......
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Since psychiatry is a bogus endeavour, the profession and medical speciality should simply be abolished. It has no use and no future.
Given the crimes of psychiatry, regardless of the crimes of those who invented the term "anti-psychiatry", the term has a place I believe.
Is "anti-slavery" or "anti-racism" an imbecilic term?