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Insane Medicine Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (Part 2) – James Moore
Services will have to dispense with diagnosis; people need connection and meaning as well as basics such as safety, housing, and work.
Editors Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Sami Timimis book, Insane Medicine. In this chapter, he discusses the end results of the scientism of psychiatry. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived here.
Psychiatric scientism
Mainstream psychiatry has been afflicted by at least two types of scientism. Firstly, it parodies science as ideology, liking to talk in scientific language, using the language…
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