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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by shimonabi on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:28PM (#25637403)
Adam Curtis also explored this topic:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f1bj

It seems to me that what is "normal" is mostly defined by the political system.

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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by Nav_Panel on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:57PM (#25637859)
Yeah, this was one of Foucault's major points, as well as several other "anti-psychiatry" thinkers in the 70s (most notably Thomas Szasz): "mental illness" is always a normative stance, and is incredibly useful politically.
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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by shimonabi on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:58AM (#25642902)
Foucault was an anti-science obscurantist.

Postmodernists have nothing to say.

I posted the wrong link. Here is the right one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f1bjq

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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by Nav_Panel on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:37AM (#25646592)
What the hell are you so mad about? Most contemporary critics of postmodernism are themselves implicitly entrenched in postmodern thought lmao
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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by shimonabi on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:57AM (#25655556)
I'm from Slovenia, so I have to listen to Žižek's crap every day.
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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by Nav_Panel on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:48PM (#25667070)
Aw, that's actually... ok, you're forgiven :)
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Re:The science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness by kodachi on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:18PM (#25638211)
There was a quote I couldn't find that said something like we are fortunate that millions of people share our same delusions/world-view that us and that kept us from the asylum.
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