From the C.J.
Jung Shadow Department
co hosting by Dr Thomas
Szasz*,
"The Stigmatized"
REJECTION
"Neither must
we suppose that any of the citizens belongs to himself,
for they all belong
to the state, and are each of them part of the state,
and the care of each
part is inseparable form the care of the whole."
-- Aristotle
ON TRIAL
Any person defined as
deviant will always be suspect
DRUG ADDICT
One in ten people in
the United States are addicts or alcoholics,
a behavioural problem
social scientist decry as: repackaged as a "disease"
so money could be made
off treatment.
"The desires
of in divuals are often in conflict with the needs of the group
or the nation or the state,
and this conflict
is often obscured by invalidating the individual's desires as
"the symtoms of illness,"
--Thomas Szasz, "Pharmacracy:
Medicine and Politics in America"
Opium den in
Mexico City
"Those
who the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad"
--Herodutus
Transvestite
Formerly
we approved and dissapproved, permitted and prohitibted various
behaviours because
they are
deemed healthy or sick, therapuetic or pathogenic.
Hence the
unappeasable thirst to medicalize, pathologize and therapeutize
all manner
of behaviours manifesting as personal or social problems"
-- Thomas Szasz
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