Szasz Thomas "Well if you believe that, you will believe anything."

Can the child hire another doctor for a second opinion, a different explanation in his/her favor? No.
"Another lamentable new development, is a claim that millions of children suffer from a mental illness called Attention deficit hyperactive disorder and that Ritalin administered to children often against the parents will ( of course it's always against the child's will, but nobody is asking the children) and the administration of Ritalin is a treatment for it.

Well if you believe that, you will believe anything. No behaviour or misbehaviour is a disease or can be a disease, that's not what diseases are!...

Diseases are malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver , the kidney, the brain. So it doesn't matter how a child behaves, there is nothing to examine. If he is sick then there must be some objective science to it. Which can be diagnosed by physicians and objective tests.

As soon as you go to a doctor, they take a lot of blood. They take Xrays. They don't want to hear how you behave.(laughter)

Labeling a child as "mentally ill" is stigmatization, it is not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning them, not treatment."

Audio only of Dr Thomas Szasz the author of The Myth of Mental Illness.

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