Posted by IntendedMispelling on November 16, 2009, at 21:48:38
In reply to Who are some contemporary anti-psychiatrists?, posted by IntendedMispelling on November 16, 2009, at 1:08:38
Wow I just found another guy who I thought would help me but he responded to my request for therapy in such a sarcastic and disingenuous way.
My problem was that I had mentioned Lidz, Arieti, and R.D. Laing. And the guy subscribes to the Szasz school of mental illness which basically says that theirs nothing wrong with your just being a jerk. So he gives me a lecture on how my "language" is incorrect and he kept using quotation marks inappropriately in his e-mail simply because I used the words "symptoms" and "schizophrenia" in quotations.
He didn't give me any names of new therapists, he just told me to read Szasz and told me that Laing was a "drunken Lout" and a fraud.
Well I worry about Laing's intellectual honesty myself but I don't know if it really matters if his reports on the family life in Sanity, Madness and the Family are true. But then maybe he and Esterson and his colleagues did make everything up and there were no tapes as he claims. And it does matter of course in terms of whether or not he could treat people with Schizoid conditions.
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