A humane alternative to mental health treatment
The claim that mental disorder is a biological illness is false. If mental disorder was an illness of biology, it would be handled by the medical professions such as neurology (brain) and endocrinology (hormones). Psychiatry has no biological target that isn't already taken by another medical specialty.
There is also the claim that mental disorder is an illness of the mind. But, that claim is nonsensical as the mind has no material substance that can fail to work as structured, similar to how hearts work to keep people alive. So, the mind cannot become ill in a literal sense. This necessarily means that mental disorder is either a figure of speech, such as "heartbreak" and "cabin fever," or it is psychiatry's moral judgment about the ways we experience life and the decisions we make. All mental disorder categories are based only on symptoms, not on any dysfunction in the body or the mind. In contrast, all other medical specialties target dysfunctions underlying the symptoms. There are no dysfunctions underlying the problems called mental disorder. I offer an alternative.
Schedule an appointment with me Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error.... - Thomas Szasz, M.D. |