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From Thomas Szasz book: "Psychiatry, the Science of Lies" (2008, preface x) - "Understanding modern psychiatry - the historical forces and the complex economic, legal, political, and social principles and practices that support it - requires understanding the epistemology and sociology of faking in general and counterfeiting disease and disability in particular. Where there are fake disease, there are healthy persons who pretend to be ill and deluded or dishonest doctors who diagnose and treat them. In 1976, protesting the official definition of psychiatry as the diagnosis and treatment of mental disease, I proposed this definition:
The subject matter of psychiatry is neither minds nor mental, but lies...{which} begin with the names of the participants in the transaction - the designation of one party as "patient" even though he is not ill, and of the other party as "therapist" even though he is not treating any illness. The lies continue with the deceptions that comprise the subject matter proper of the discipline-the psychiatric "diagnoses," "prognoses," "treatments," and "follow-ups." And they end with the lies that, like shadows, follow ex-mental patients through the rest of their lives-the records of denigrations called "depression." "schizophrenia," or whatnot and of imprisonments called "hospitalization." Accordingly, if we wished to give psychiatry an honest name, we ought to call it "pseudology," or the art and science of lies and lying.
A caricature? Yes. However, a good caricature portrays its subject more accurately than does a flattering portrait, nay self-deluded self portrait."
Thomas Szasz was a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. So clearly and pointedly shows us how certain doctors and professions: such as the branch of psychiatry and psychiatrists attempt to follow / shadow some might call it stalk their patients once they have an encounter with them for the rest of their lives.
How can a simple doctors visit impact your health and your life for the rest of your life? How is traditional pastoral and family counseling different from psychiatry? How can the lies and greed of one "medical" profession impact your health and contradict your religious beliefs.
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