The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
Mad in America
JULY 9, 2024
Such patients have enough social and mental quirks to merit permanent custodial care.” Given that the patient is in severe distress, he is unlikely able to satisfy all of the institutional requirements (waking/sleeping on time, attending groups, engaging politely with staff etc). As such, we see Derrida’s strange paradox.
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