"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

torsdag den 4. juni 2009

Logik à la Kafka

Det her er et af de tydeligste eksempler på hvad den egentlige hensigt med psykdiagnoser er, jeg nogensinde har set.

Og for lige at forebygge: nej, jeg vil ikke hænge nogen ud her. Antagelsen, at det at have en psykdiagnose skulle være lig med ikke at være i stand til at tænke/udtale sig logisk, er for de flestes vedkommende ikke resultat af et bevidst ræsonnement, men af ubevidst internaliseret kulturel konditionering.

Hele det psykiatriske system er bygget op omkring netop denne antagelse, systemet står og falder med den. Men er antagelsen korrekt?
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