Posted by Toph on October 14, 2006, at 9:35:12
In reply to Re: Request Problems in Living Board, posted by zazenducky on October 13, 2006, at 15:17:30
I did not consciously choose that phrase because of your name z, really. I hope you return to admin whenever you like. Szasz strikes a nerve with me mainly for three reasons. First, I am mentally ill as I stated above, and it took a lot of suffering to accept this fact, as much as I wanted to believe that just the right talk therapy would end the repeated interruptions in my functioning. Second, my first psychiatrist was a preeminent Chicago psychotherapist, who, when I suffered my first major manic episode, refused to see me on the psych ward because, like Szasz, he believed that I needed no medications as my parents were competely at fault for my "adjustment" problem. And lastly, I worked 2 unhappy years at the University of Chicago Orthogenic School at a therapist and supervisor. Bruno Bettelheim did his life's work there. Szasz' theories resonate with me like Bettelheim's famous assertions that autism is the fault of "refrigerator moms" not neurology.
I'm sorry if I was less than considerate in my response.
Alex, I don't know him. Maybe he just wanted to give unfortunate people like me hope. And then there are those pompous psychiatrists he may have been tweeking...
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