The orthodox Mental health industry is a form of social and moral control and not a true medical system.
Thus, arbitrary moral judgments must be made to distinguish the two.
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But with Mental illness, there is no natural boundary between it and Mental health.
Real Illness is About physiological viability and there are natural thresholds between healthy and unhealthy physiological functioning.
It is a system of moral judgments and injunctions.
In other words, the Mental health industry is not scientific - it is pseudoscientific.
When successful, it is called effective treatment and symptom reduction.
So-called treatment for it is likewise without scientific merit, and instead, mostly consists of trying to stop people from complaining About real life problems.
Research fails to provide evidence to support the orthodox claim that human distress is About real illness.
So-called evidence presented in professional journals and popular news accounts of Mental Illness falls short of the basic requirements of science and critical thought.
Words like healthy, patient, diagnosis, and the very phrases Mental Illness and Mental health, perpetuate a belief that emotional distress and troublesome behaviors are medical matters to be corrected through medical means.
Illusions of language, created with medical terms and verbal sleights of hand, permeate both lay and professional discourse.
Smoke and Mirrors explains why nothing has changed and it offers a humane alternative to the current system.
Part I exposes how this myth is hidden behind a disguise of medicine that fools not only the lay public, but also the very professionals of the Mental health industry.
Yet, despite the many ways over the ensuing years that professionals, academicians, and activists have described this myth and its dangers, traditional psychiatry has become an even more powerful force and a threat to human freedom and dignity.
Instead, it was based on the industry\'s flailing attempt to present itself as a legitimate medical specialty.
However, this shift in mainstream psychiatry\'s focus was not based on science.
It arose six decades ago at a time when psychiatry was embracing the biology of human distress and the use of mind-altering drugs to numb that distress.
This critique is not new.
It has created the myth of Mental Illness that fools people into believing common and adaptive human reactions to emotional pain are illnesses or otherwise signs of personal dysfunction.
The orthodox Mental health industry is a form of social and moral control and not a true medical system
