tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129153260738117116.post5044391666009676050..comments2024-03-22T04:40:34.682-05:00Comments on REFUSING PSYCHIATRY: Neil Steinberg on the non-fungibility of peopleSRKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038834371981947620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129153260738117116.post-60159171324520063062010-08-03T01:06:31.484-05:002010-08-03T01:06:31.484-05:00Jon Franklin is so unimportant, he doesn't eve...Jon Franklin is so unimportant, he doesn't even have his own wikipedia page. However, I did find the article from the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041125092022/http://www.bylinefranklin.com/writing/mindfixers.htm" rel="nofollow">web archives</a> that won him a Pulitzer. It was written over 25 years ago and all of the pie-in-the-sky claims it made are still unfulfilled. Psychiatry's just as confused and as ignorant in 2010 as it was in 1984.<br /><br />I think the argument boils down to the individual versus the group and who gets to define what is right. What's right for one individual may not be right for another. I have no right to impose my belief system on you, just as you have no right to determine what is right for me. As long as no one's bleeding, nothing's on fire and every thing's maintained at a pleasantly dull uproar, each of us should have a right to go out and define what is right for himself. It's what an education is supposed to do. <br /><br />Psychiatry has always seemed to feel that it has the authority to define what is appropriate and healthy, to use some of its favorite adjectives. The Axis report they use seems to be only concerned about whether the patient is being a good little unit of production-slash-consumption and whether or not he's upsetting the other sheep. As long as we have these moral busybodies wanting to impinge on the lives of others they feel defective, we will never have a just and vibrant society.betasheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271976588512688571noreply@blogger.com