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...included the statements of psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz, who argues that psychiatry uses the assertion of mental illness to control undesirable or bizarre behavior. Thousands of former mental patients agree with Szasz's position. Together, Szasz, the bad boy of psychiatry, and Yoder, the bad inmate of the Chester Mental Health Center, might bring the house of cards down once and for all on psychiatry. History will view the Yoder trial as the trial of the century: the one that evicted psychiatry and the state from the bedroom of our minds. MILLIE STROM Vancouver...
...early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population. Those who can now be told that they will contract the disease relatively early in their lives belong to a small part of this...
...other team members present so it wouldn't look like the person was facing a court or a tribunal. I tell them, without any adjectives, such as, 'Unfortunately, the test shows ...,' that they have the alteration." He says so far the reactions have been calm, although the team's psychiatrist, Luis Pintor, has been called upon to talk to a couple of people having trouble adapting to the news that they have the mutation. "From the outset, these people have been determined to know, even though there is no treatment," says Molinuevo. Apart from being able to decide whether...
...Thomas Szasz has been the most controversial psychiatrist in the nation for years, so perhaps it's no shock that he has become Yoder's biggest defender. Born in Budapest, Szasz, 82, immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. He has been a psychiatry professor at the State University of New York for nearly 46 years. Szasz's most famous book, The Myth of Mental Illness, was published in 1961. As the Atlantic Monthly said, the book argued "that both our uses of the term 'mental illness' and the activities of the psychiatric profession are often scientifically untenable and morally indefensible...
...late 1990s, Yoder had immersed himself in such ideas. Because of his views, Szasz is often contacted by disgruntled patients--"there have been thousands," he sighs. But Yoder was different. "He's extraordinary in the amount of information he amassed," says Szasz. The psychiatrist was impressed that Yoder had tried to go to prison rather than Chester, since Szasz has argued for decades that it's more humane to imprison lawbreakers for a set number of years rather than forcibly treat them in a mental hospital indefinitely...