“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it<\/em>.” – George Santayana<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “…No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That’s not what diseases are…”<\/p>\n “…When I went to medical school, 60 years ago, there were only a handful of mental diseases,\u00a0I think there were no more than\u00a06 or 7. Now there are more than 300, and\u00a0new ones are ‘discovered every day’…”<\/p>\n “…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\u00a0obstacles,\u00a0perservere. Our conscience commands that we do no less.” – Thomas Szasz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Found the following video on YouTube. Thomas Szasz, Professor Emeritus in\u00a0Psychiatry, discusses\u00a0the 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\u00a0on psychiatry. Learn\u00a0about\u00a0drapetomania,\u00a0hysteria and how for hundreds of years, psychiatrists have used\u00a0so-called diagnostic\u00a0terms to stigmatize and control\u00a0people. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czblog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![](\"https:\/\/lucarinfo.com\/czblog\/wp-content\/szasz.jpg\")
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TQveNlsSCuE<\/a>\u00a0– Added<\/span> June 29, 2006 – From rickygarciargr<\/a><\/p>\n