How Psychiatric Stories Create "Mental Illnesses"and Undermines Our Democracy
This will be the first in a series of podcasts that have two\xa0goals. The first is to\xa0try and\xa0convince the public to reject any and all attempts by professionals working in the mental health industry (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others) to accept that confusion, anxiety and\xa0unhappiness represent actual\xa0entities called mental illnesses and disorders.\xa0\xa0The second goal is to make the argument that the wholesale diagnosing of many milions of citizens as\xa0mentally ill represents an authoritarian system\xa0that\xa0not only damages them as individuals but has helped undermine our society as a democracy. These podcasts will be told in the form of my \xa0 \xa0personal\xa0story based on my fifty years as a "clinical" psychologist and how I began as\xa0a true believer in the \xa0medical model of mental illness and ended as a fierce critic of this same system.\xa0\n\nstore.bookbaby.com/book/psychotherapy-and-the-stories-we-live-by