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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought the name Laing was familiar to me and
when I did a search it brought up all the stuff about this author. He is very
far out there. One of the problems with mental illness writers is that some them
are so ill themselves that it really muddies the waters. I'd like to ask if you
are a part of the Scientology/L Ron Hubbard group who also teach all this
nonsense. I suggest before any of you read this guys stuff you do some research
also on who he is, what he believes and the type of stuff he is invovled with.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am reading a book: The Politics of Deviance, Anne
Hendershott. This author makes some very good points about some
shifts in sociologists beliefs about right and wrong, good and evil. The problem
with all this 'is there or isn't there true mental illness' is that people wind
up living in very dangerous conditions. If Laing and the Scientologist had their
way my mother would still be living in a house in Spokane with no functioning
furnance. Her children wanted to fix it but she explained to the
salesman that 'she wasn't allowed to have a furnace because of a class she
failed while attending EWU'. You should have seen the look on his face! When I
told him that we would let him know he couldn't get out of there fast enough.
There is diviant behavior. There is good and evil. There are people who are not
just 'thinking out of the box', they are ill. The brains of mentally ill people
show up different on scans. Their chemistry is different in blood tests. The
only 'controversial issue' is the stupid stuff that some people read and take as
fact.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The simle truth is that if you are hearing voices
in you head there is a problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pkraut@moscow.com
href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:37
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] The Politics of
Experience (definition ofschizophrenia)</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR>Pat et. al.<BR><BR>I offered a reference
for reading on the subject of mental illness, and various controversial issues
involved on this subject, written by a psychiatrist, R. D Laing, who had a lot
of experience dealing with the mentally ill. You might read the book
before dismissing what I said. <BR><BR>Info on "The Politics of
Experience" here:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039471475X/103-2193648-8375043?v=glance">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039471475X/103-2193648-8375043?v=glance</A><BR><BR>Consider
the following point, that can be read at the link above, from a reviewer of
"The Politics of Experience:"<BR><BR>"To be well-adjusted to our modern
dysfunctional society is not healthy for the individual or society. Who is
more dangerous? Laing asks: the psychotic who mistakenly believes he carries a
hydrogen bomb in his stomach or the perfectly adjusted B-52 bomber pilot who
will drop very real hydrogen bombs when ordered to do
so?"<BR>-----------------------------<BR><BR>Ted
Moffett<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>