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Some Myths About "Mental Illness"
Michael S. Moore, JD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1975;32(12):1483-1497.
Abstract
• Radical psychiatrists and others assert that mental illness is a myth. The opening and closing portions of the article deal with the impact such an argument has had in law and psychiatry. The body of the article discusses the five following versions of the myth argument prevalent in radical psychiatry: (1) that there is no such thing as mental illness; (2) that those called "mentally ill" are really as rational as everyone else, only with different aims, that the only reasons anyone ever thought differently was (3) because of unsophisticated category mistakes or (4) because of an adherence to the epistemology of a sick society;and (5) that the phrase "mental illness" is used to mask value judgments about others' behavior in pseudoscientific respectability. Reasons are given for rejecting each of these versions of the argument that mental illness is a myth.
Author Affiliations
From the University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 30, 1975.
Reprint requests to University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KS 66045 (Prof Moore).
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