Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: self-actualization Message-ID: <2648@randvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 17:05:21 EDT Article-I.D.: randvax.2648 Posted: Fri Aug 16 17:05:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:22:59 EDT References: <1744@reed.UUCP> <621@ttidcc.UUCP> <1680@hao.UUCP> <313@tove.UUCP> <1690@hao.UUCP> <671@ttidcc.UUCP> Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 16 Summary: "Mental Illness" is a myth; Therapy ain't just for sickies Those of you who might like a new perspective on the nature of psycho- therapy should check out _The Myth Of Mental Illness_ by Thomas Szasz, MD. This book was considered quite radical when its first edition was published in the 1950's, but today Szasz's analysis has a fair amount of acceptance in psychiactric circles (the mainstay of conservatism in psychotherapy), and is pretty much old hat to most psychologists. On the other hand, it blows the generally accepted public perception of ``mental illness'' right out of the water. It's amazing how public understanding of psychotherapy is even more backwards than its understanding of medicine, but I suppose that once the pall of ``mental illness'' was put over psychotherapy few people wanted to have anything to do with it. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall