Read the “Dig Deeper” vignette, “The Myth of Mental Illness”,
provided below. Do you think mental illness is a myth? Why or why
not?
DIG DEEPER: The Myth of Mental Illness In the 1950s and 1960s,
the concept of mental illness was widely criticized. One of the
major criticisms focused on the notion that mental illness was a
“myth that justifies psychiatric intervention in socially
disapproved behavior” (Wakefield, 1992). Thomas Szasz (1960), a
noted psychiatrist, was perhaps the biggest proponent...