Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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We achieve ''active'' mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.
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Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill if you want to exalt what a person is
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Masturbation the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease in the twentieth, it's a cure.
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.
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