Yee-haw 📍 Slane Castle #Ireland

We’ve all been there… Another beutiful morning in #Dublin #Ireland

GM 🇮🇪☀️ #Dublin #Ireland

Museum Of Literature Ireland 📖 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin📍

What Counts as Disease? The Gold Standard of Disease versus the Fiat Standard of Diagnosis ~ THOMAS SZASZ (renowned libertarian psychiatrist) #Psychology #ThomasSzasz #Szasz “However, the criteria for what behaviors count as abnormal are cultural, ethical, religious, social, and legal, not medical or scientific. Hence, it is a priori absurd to try to explain all abnormal behaviors by attributing them to brain diseases. The dilemma thus posed was overcome by creating the concept of psychopathology, a category of illnesses with (metaphorical) “mental lesions.” While the late-nineteenth-century pathologists and bacteriologist were busy discovering and describing new somatic pathologies, psychiatrists were busy “discovering” and describing new psychopathologies, each ostensibly a disease of the central nervous system, a somatic pathology” “The phrase laissez faire, laissez passer (let things alone, let them pass) was coined by the eighteenth-century French physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade. The first half of the phrase became the slogan of free-market economists. Although the term laissez faire, usually hyphenated, is now a part of the English language, its practice—especially in medicine—has become passé. Every modern state is a dirigiste, therapeutic state. Today, medicine is an integral part of the political economy; indeed, it is the single most important part. Modern psychiatry is a branch of the law, family court, and criminal justice system rather than a branch of medicine. “ “The old quacks peddled fake cures to treat real diseases. The new quacks peddle fake diseases to justify chemical pacification and medical coercion. The old quacks were politically harmless: they could harm individuals only with those individuals’ consent. The new quacks are a serious threat to individual liberty and personal responsibility: they are agents of the therapeutic state who can and do harm individuals both with and without those individuals’ consent. Theocracy is the alliance of religion with the state. Pharmacracy is the alliance of medicine with the state.”

I love the way this Irish butcher says flavour Not messing about

GM 🌞 Bushy Park, Dublin 📍