ABSTRACT

But Szasz never denied that the behaviors we refer to as “mental illness” could lead to anguish, misery, and harm. When writing about the “differences in behavior and speech” we call schizophrenia, for example, he highlighted how they could be “gravely disturbing to the so-called schizophrenic person, to those around him or to all concerned” (Szasz, 1988, p. 191).