We're All Citizens of a Therapeutic State - Blood $atellite

Dimes and Judas launch into a searing indictment on mental illness, citing the book “The Therapeutic State” by Thomas Szasz, part of a famous corpus denouncing the entire field of psychiatry from the mind of a renowned psychologist. Dissecting what he termed the “medicalization of penalization,” they strike at the core of the mythology of mental health itself.

Taken from Episode #237 – A Liminal Man in Jaminal Spaces

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Timestamps:

04:01 – Psychanalysis as a Replacement for Morality

07:07 – Is Mental Illness Even Real?

12:48 – The Deinstitutionalization Movement

18:11 – Schizophrenia as the Study as Misbehavior Itself

23:33 – The Validation of Imagining Sickness as Sickness Itself

28:04 – Dr. Menninger and the Mental Illness of All People

34:26 – Temporary and Convenient Insanity

40:34 – Morality vs. Addiction