Re: Externalization of psychological costs

From: Meldon (meldon_fens_at_meldon.com)
Date: 03/05/05


Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:44:17 -0500


"Dustbin" <dustbin_address@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:SAmWd.237917$B8.3851@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com wrote:
>
..>
> Sorry mate, but this is not new.
>
> If you check out some of the anti-psychiatric
> writings of the sixties and seventies you will
> find similar remarks.
>
> The basic point is that many pspychiatric
> patients have found themselves the emotional
> dustbins of family and society and eventually
> show signs of breaking down.
>
> Some writers have even refrred to clinical
> psychologists and psychiatrists as carrying out
> a kind of garbage collection service for society.
>
> D.

People in those situations are extremely vulnerable. If someone makes even a
subtle error somewhere along the line the results can be more harmful than
beneficial. On larger scale, society is the patient and a percentage of the
people unfortunate enough to be in that position represents the level or
severity of sickness of the larger patient.



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