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Oct 09, 2017, 03:31 AM
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...dox-psychiatry
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We are living in an era of supposed rapid progression in the development of newer, better, and more effective treatments for the human problems called mental disorders. The psychotropic drugs that are marketed today are said to be more effective than ever before, and we are told by the purveyors of psychotherapy that it too has become more refined and more effective in the treatment of mental distress. Yet, at the same time, the rates of mental illness continue to rise and in fact have never been higher.
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So, while there may (or may not) be better or more effective treatments for the human suffering defined as mental disorder, there is a range of vested interests—financial, moral, intellectual, political—influencing which deviations in human behavior and experience become defined as mental illness and resultantly phenomena for study and treatment. A distinction between literal and metaphorical entities is essential in interpreting the claims made by some about the treatment and prevalence of mental illness, and also in understanding the true nature of the human problems called mental disorders.
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However, I don't see that he says what the "true nature" of mental disorders is.
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