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Questions for Tues. Sept. 28, 2021
1. Grob tells us Dr. Rashi Fein (1926-2014), the author of a study dealing with the economics of mental illness, wrote this: “What society can spend (and ultimately what society should spend) depends on the value system that society holds to.” (247) Dr. Fein has been called “the architect of Medicare.” How is America doing in 2021? Have we made real progress since the 1950’s?
2. Freud tells us when emotions are prevented from escaping normally (repressed) then people become disturbed and manifest all sorts of psychological and physical maladies. (215) Do you agree? I am especially interested in this theory as it relates to wartime trauma aka PTSD.
3. Szasz, a critic of psychiatry, feels that advocates of psychiatric treatment are seeking to exercise social control aims through the unwarranted application of science in situations considered not amenable to the scientific method. In other words, what is normal and who calls the shots when defining the parameters of sound mental health? I think I hear Foucault. Do you?
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