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russotto · 08-11-2003, 02:16 PM

Szasz goes far too far in his claims; he takes a very real absence of evidence for what psychiatrists claim is the cause of certain mental illnesses, and tries to parley that into evidence of absence not only of that cause, but of the conditions themselves.

As for involuntary commitment, it doesn't really matter what the APA says; not every diagnosable condition can lead to involuntary commitment.

Here's a page on PA's involuntary commitment process: http://www.mces.org/302FAQs.html

(now, there is a grave injustice in that being "302"ed permanently deprives you of certain rights even if the evaluation determines that you were NOT mentally ill by the definition of the statute. But that's another matter)

08-11-2003, 02:16 PM	#15
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Szasz goes far too far in his claims; he takes a very real absence of evidence for what psychiatrists claim is the cause of certain mental illnesses, and tries to parley that into evidence of absence not only of that cause, but of the conditions themselves. As for involuntary commitment, it doesn't really matter what the APA says; not every diagnosable condition can lead to involuntary commitment. Here's a page on PA's involuntary commitment process: http://www.mces.org/302FAQs.html (now, there is a grave injustice in that being "302"ed permanently deprives you of certain rights even if the evaluation determines that you were NOT mentally ill by the definition of the statute. But that's another matter)