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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:21:02 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93027.202102SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
- References: <ewright.728075030@convex.convex.com>
- <1993Jan27.005956.18358@sol.UVic.CA> <ewright.728159947@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.728159947@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
- Wright) says:
- >
- >In <1993Jan27.005956.18358@sol.UVic.CA> atovorni@engr.UVic.CA (dreas) writes:
- >
- >> I, too, have had occasions in my life where I have had to fight
- >> a mental illness
- >
- >Pick up a book called "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Sasz,
- >and you may discover what "mad doctoring" is all about.
- >
- >Hint: Drawing an anology between physical ailments and socially
- >disapproved behaviors does not make the analogy appropriate.
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- Ed, my mother has being diagnosed with schizophrenia; now, even
- the psych types willing admit that their definition is shakey for
- just what that _means_, specifically, but I defy you to reduce
- her lack of wellness to socially disapproved of behaviours.
-
- Graydon
-