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Re:Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around? by haaen on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:16PM (#12272029)
Theodore Dalrymple (a retired prison psychiater from England) wrote a book about how psychiatry undermines morality. It is called 'Admirable Evasions' (1). One of the things he notes: many people call themselves depressed nowadays. Few people call themselves unhappy.

(1) https://www.amazon.com/Admirable-Evasions-Psychology-Undermi...

Re:Can Psychiatry Turn Itself Around? by swift on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:47PM (#12272799)
My money is that that guy will prove to be utterly on the wrong side of history, and in the long term serious crime will turn out to be mostly a medical problem.