"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

tirsdag den 14. juli 2009

Og nogle mener seriøst, jeg er paranoid når jeg siger, det ene og alene drejer sig om at lukke munden på folk...

Her er et af de mest slående eksempler på, hvad den egentlige hensigt med psykdiagnoser er, jeg indtil videre er stødt på. Jeg undrer bare, om tanken nogensinde har strejfet kommentarens forfatter, at hendes egne meninger kunne være et produkt af en syg hjerne, og således af mere end tvivlsom værdi. Såvidt jeg ved, er hun selv psykiatrisk stemplet.

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