Psychiatry revealed

Found the following video on YouTube. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry, discusses the difference between a physical disease, for which there are objective tests like blood tests and X-rays, and a psychiatric one. He also gives a little history lesson on psychiatry. Learn about drapetomania, hysteria and how for hundreds of years, psychiatrists have used so-called diagnostic terms to stigmatize and control people.

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQveNlsSCuE – Added June 29, 2006 – From rickygarciargr

“…No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That’s not what diseases are…”

“…When I went to medical school, 60 years ago, there were only a handful of mental diseases, I think there were no more than 6 or 7. Now there are more than 300, and new ones are ‘discovered every day’…”

“…The task we set ourselves to combat psychiatric coersion is important. I think it’s important, you all think it’s important. Not enough people think it’s important. It’s a noble task, a task in the pursuit of which we must, regardless of obstacles, perservere. Our conscience commands that we do no less.” – Thomas Szasz