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Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
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Mad In America
During my internship at a mental health facility, a 15-year-old boy was brought in.
This is a critique that psychiatrist Thomas Szasz laid out in The Myth of Mental Illness.
A psychology that does not medicalize dissent or isolate trauma, but listens deeply to the stories people live inside of.
What would it have meant to ask not just what is wrong with him, but what has happened to him?
A psychology that does not turn away from the world, but walks right into it—with curiosity, with compassion, and with both eyes open.
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