ABSTRACT
In 1991 Peter Breggin came out with Toxic Psychiatry, in which he questioned the biological basis of any mental illness and the need for any psychotropic medication. In the mid-20th century, a delusion took hold—the "bubble" of biological psychiatry that radically altered the way many people understood their thinking, emotions and behavior—which may one day stand alongside Mackay's litany of delusions. The bubble that psychiatry grew and inhabited did not evolve in a cultural or social vacuum. Psychiatry, like every other human endeavor, is something made—a construct—by individuals who have come to see a certain aspect of the world in a certain way. Psychiatry's comeuppance hangs only on the accretion of a critical mass of ethical and legal redress for the damage already done. Mental illness is alternately feared too much or not taken seriously enough, and psychiatry continues to be a punch line for jokes".
