[Aj...] Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 The full paper of this is hilarious. It must be a piss take surely. It is available in full via SciHub https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1619629/ Edit: Profanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[or...] Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Ajusta, I read the abstract. They are not kidding!!!! Wow, soon Big Pharma will have a drug that numbs us to happiness as it is proposed that happiness be viewed as an affective disorder. Just imagine . . . we can be "cured" of happiness! And wait . . . joy, exhilaration, contentment will be next. One possible objection to this proposal remains--that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant. Scientifically irrelevant??!!! I guess psychiatrists don't have enough to do -- I mean they haven't "cured" sadness, despair, depression or anxiety with the drugs they push, so why not fail with happiness? (As if any of these emotions -- and they are emotions, not "brain diseases" can be "fixed". Not!) This is grotesque. Jeez, Louise. Thanks for the article. I better enjoy my happiness while I can. :'( Katz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Li...] Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Quoting Greaves (2000) ... Richard Bentall [1992] once proposed that happiness be classified as a mental disorder, but only as a device to parody psychiatric orthodoxy, and so did not intend it to be taken literally. Bentall RP. A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder. J Med Ethics. 1992 Jun;18(2):94-8. doi: 10.1136/jme.18.2.94. PMID: 1619629; PMCID: PMC1376114. Greaves D. The obsessive pursuit of health and happiness. BMJ. 2000;321(7276):1576. doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7276.157 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[or...] Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 So this is an exercise in leg-pulling? Katz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ca...] Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Well they wont need to develop any new meds will they.. “-Finally our meds work beyond doubt.. we just had to change the application..” ...oops, - :( (dont wanna get sanctioned..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Aj...] Posted October 5, 2020 Author Share Posted October 5, 2020 Quoting Greaves (2000) ... Richard Bentall [1992] once proposed that happiness be classified as a mental disorder, but only as a device to parody psychiatric orthodoxy, and so did not intend it to be taken literally. Bentall RP. A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder. J Med Ethics. 1992 Jun;18(2):94-8. doi: 10.1136/jme.18.2.94. PMID: 1619629; PMCID: PMC1376114. Greaves D. The obsessive pursuit of health and happiness. BMJ. 2000;321(7276):1576. doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7276.157 Yeah! Although he might have come up with that later once it was ridiculed... Thing is he also wrote a really shit paper in ME/CFS - classified as a neurological disease by the world health organisation - in which he claims it is psychiatric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Ko...] Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Oh my god, Ajusta, that's priceless! Thanks for the laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [pa...] Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Here's the full paper. http://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/18/2/94.full.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Fi...] Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 ...“I can tell you only what I think,” Berger continues. “There are so many psychiatrists now who say too much anxiety isn’t good, but a little anxiety is necessary. I don’t think that is so. People who perform best are people who aren’t scared.” https://www.topic.com/the-magic-bullet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[or...] Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Ai yi. Katz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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