Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness” Went Awry
Mad in America
JULY 17, 2025
Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.
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