[Katieissweet]

Schizophrenia is one such term that can be viewed as a social construction. Walker has argued that psychiatric diagnoses are nothing but linguistic abstractions. He has criticized the DSM-IV's poor reliability and postulated that terms like 'schizophrenia' and 'mental illness' only exist by consensus and persist by convention. Further he argues that the pathologizing language which persists in the medical model of disability is unuseful in working towards a recovery model.

Conrad writes on medicalization and social control. He looks at the process of science and medicalization. Science is heralded as the new religion in terms of ideological power and Conrad describes how medicalization can be used to police morals.


Social construction of schizophrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[SmileHere]

Interesting!

I was aware of Hearing Voices Network and Concerns about ?schizophrenia? diagnosis | Inquiry into the ?Schizophrenia? Label , some of these are new to me though. I like 'Alternative perception' !

On another forum, people agree sz is a '********' diagnosis lol!

[Katieissweet]

It's pretty amazing thSt people will entirely forget the wisdom of their ancestors for the past few thousand years and instead accept some term by some guy in 1916 that likely never had a spiritual experience in his life,or experienced anything beyond the scope of reason.

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Medicalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For many years, marginalized psychiatrists (such as Peter Breggin, Paula Caplan, Thomas Szasz) and outside critics (such as Stuart A. Kirk) have "been accusing psychiatry of engaging in the systematic medicalization of normality". More recently these concerns have come from insiders who have worked for and promoted the American Psychiatric Association (e.g., Robert Spitzer, Allen Frances).[9]

According to Franco Basaglia and his followers, whose approach pointed out the role of psychiatric institutions in the control and medicalization of deviant behaviors and social problems, psychiatry is used as the provider of scientific support for social control to the existing establishment.

[Katieissweet]

For many years, marginalized psychiatrists (such as Peter Breggin, Paula Caplan, Thomas Szasz) and outside critics (such as Stuart A. Kirk) have "been accusing psychiatry of engaging in the systematic medicalization of normality". More recently these concerns have come from insiders who have worked for and promoted the American Psychiatric Association (e.g., Robert Spitzer, Allen Frances).[9]

According to Franco Basaglia and his followers, whose approach pointed out the role of psychiatric institutions in the control and medicalization of deviant behaviors and social problems, psychiatry is used as the provider of scientific support for social control to the existing establishment.

Medicalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal [Paperback]
Paula J. Caplan (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020...SIN=0201488329

[Katieissweet]

Imagine a doctor wearing the traditionally authoritative white coat walking into the local asylum with a baseball bat. He finds a couple of hyperactive patient-residents, clobbers them over the head with the bat and notices that they grow noticeably calmer when unconcious. The company that makes the bats funds the Doctor's subsequent research (which of course corroborates the earlier findings) and the bat is marketed to other psychiatrists as the "mood stabilizer." N years later the therapy of choice might be a stun-gun, a.k.a., the bio-consciousness transformer.

[Angelique67]

I agree with that, or at least always have. But I'm willing now to take higher doses of crap if it will make me not care about the psychopath that tortures me, or make him go away entirely.

Originally Posted by Angelique67

I agree with that, or at least always have. But I'm willing now to take higher doses of crap if it will make me not care about the psychopath that tortures me, or make him go away entirely.

He is not real. I have read your other post and as someone who also experiences audio hallucinations under similar circumstances I can say what your experiencing is just a scary hallucination nothing more. Given the nature of what your describing, I'm guessing that it's some sort of trauma related issue. I could be wrong and I'm not a doctor, but that's my guess as a layperson who also hallucinates at night.

[Angelique67]

Thanks. It doesn't help to believe that since I have not been able to will it away. I'd rather be dead.

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Andreasen Drops A Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain | Psychology Today

Anti psychotics shrink the brain.

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by Steve223

He is not real. I have read your other post and as someone who also experiences audio hallucinations under similar circumstances I can say what your experiencing is just a scary hallucination nothing more. Given the nature of what your describing, I'm guessing that it's some sort of trauma related issue. I could be wrong and I'm not a doctor, but that's my guess as a layperson who also hallucinates at night.

But you don't know that he's not real. That's an assumption based on probabilities.

[Swabbingred]

No one can successfully connect the dots for us to our pathology unless it is us 'schizophrenic ilk' that do it. Takes one to know one. In a social model, schizophrenia is portrayed as an unpredictable element in sociability. Your typical "wild card" game. I am not abiding by the system with such adherence and I see myself as a walking loophole. Schizophrenia and other affiliated psychotic disorders gives society that crisp, fresh and eclipse air that not everyone's behavior is automated just for the system. There is change and the spin is that, I wrote this without my hands! Ain't it cool? Yeah.