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Outside psychiatry, mental illness is too often whatever psychiatrists say it is
Drawn from what Thomas Szasz said
What Thomas Szasz actually said
- Thomas Szasz Psychiatrist (1920 to 2012) whose The Myth of Mental…
In nonpsychiatric circles mental illness all too often is considered to be whatever psychiatrists say it is.
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↗The Myth of Mental Illness (Hoeber-Harper, 1961)archive.org
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