(May 12, 2013 at 1:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(May 12, 2013 at 1:13 pm)dazzn Wrote: lol.. I like your subjective reasoning. What denotes "functioning in society"? This is pure relativistic thinking.Of course it is. How else would psychiatry be practical or efficacious if it could not achieve a relative and subjective goal in line with the relative and subjective expectations of human society and the relative and subjective experience of the patient?
Quote:The world would be better off without psychiatry. just admit it, and be done. The world should admit it.Most people wouldn't notice a difference. We all fall fairly close to the mean (no matter how unique we imagine ourselves to be..lol). For others, society would be a hostile and completely unfriendly environment. Perhaps we'd just insist that people were "possessed" and fucking burn them alive.....you know, the good 'ole days.
Life is harsh. This is what modern society states, is it not? That my interpretation of that phrase differs from modern society's.