Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 518
Blair Cottrell & Josh Neal on The Myth of Mental Illness

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Host Nick Jeelvy welcomed back Blair Cottrell and Josh Neal to discuss Thomas Szasz’s The Myth of Mental Illness, a controversial 1961 book challenging the medical character of mental illness, on The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

Thomas Szasz’s motivations for calling mental illness a myth
The pharmaceutical aspect of the crisis
Personal autonomy and mental illness
The problem of decarceration
Our understanding of the brain as an organ
How to attain mental health without recourse to psychiatry

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