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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. While modern medicine has become increasingly impersonal, bureaucratized, and socially iatrogenic, the essence of psychiatry has long been one of social iatrogenesis.

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

Mad in America

They would say that, despite all of the advancements of medical technology, the involuntarily declared “schizophrenic” could not yet achieve competence despite their best efforts “treating” him. They would huff and puff that you should not expect so much of this poor, diseased individual.