"What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical 'mechanisms.' There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically 'normal' forms of alienation. The 'normally' alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the 'formal' majority as bad or mad." 

R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

mandag den 2. februar 2009

Halve undskyldninger

Philip Dawdy har kontaktet Eli Lilly angående en undskyldning til de mennesker, hvis helbred blev ødelagt pga. de af firmaet hemmeligholdte bivirkninger af Zyprexa. Hos Eli Lilly mener man, at udtalelserne til investorerne og pressen også indeholder en undskyldning til alle andre involverede. Philip Dawdy kalder det en halv undskyldning, og stadigt kun en halv undskyldning til dem, der fik Zyprexa "off label". Ikke til mennesker, der er stemplet med "skizofreni" eller "bipolar lidelse", og der fik Zyprexa helt legalt i sammenhæng med disse stempler. Læs mere her: "Lilly Half-Apologizes To Patients For Zyprexa Scandal"

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