{"id":16406,"date":"2012-08-10T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:55:38","slug":"justificaton-for-thomas-szasz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/justificaton-for-thomas-szasz\/","title":{"rendered":"Justification for Thomas Szasz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post at the <em>Hit and Run<\/em> blog by <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/dsm-editor-says-mental-disorders-most-ce\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Sullum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, I was surprised to see Allen Frances, who headed the panel that produced the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association&#8217;s <em>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em>, tell Gary Greenberg: &#8220;There is no definition of a mental disorder. It\u2019s bullshit. I mean, you just can\u2019t define it.&#8221; This week Frances surprised me again, declaring in his contribution to a Cato Unbound debate about psychiatric coercion that &#8220;mental disorders most certainly are not diseases.&#8221; Rather, he says, they are &#8220;constructs&#8221; that may justify treating people against their will as &#8220;a last resort.&#8221; Go here for my response. But start with Jeffrey Schaler&#8217;s opening essay, where he lays out the Szaszian position on mental illness, which Frances, the lead editor of psychiatry&#8217;s bible, says he basically agrees with, although &#8220;Schaler and Szasz go way too far in their total rejection of any need ever for involuntary treatment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post at the Hit and Run blog by Jacob Sullum: Last year, I was surprised to see Allen Frances, who headed the panel that produced the current edition of the American Psychiatric Association&#8217;s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, tell Gary Greenberg: &#8220;There is no definition of a mental disorder. It\u2019s bullshit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10,16],"tags":[369,139],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-liberty","category-science","tag-interesting","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4gC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16409,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}