Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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Goodbye, critical psychiatry

It was fun while it lasted.

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Oct 08, 2024
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Like practically everybody else of his time, the American soldier, journalist, author and misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce (1842-?1914), had no scientific education at all but he didn’t miss much. In his Devil’s Dictionary, from about 1905, he offered this definition:

Gravitation: the tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportional…

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