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ITT people who got their understanding of mental health by watching “one flew over the cuckoos nest”.

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ITT people who have not read foucault

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:foucault-madness:

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Explain, please?

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4 points

more specifically madness and civilization

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They don’t seem judgmental to me, at least not in the way you describe. As a neurodivergent person, I’m really glad to see them all over the thread, because they’ve been actively fighting mindsets that stigmatize my medicine.

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Yes and it’s a great read. It was part of what kicked off a decades long effort to address issues in mental healthcare.

Basing your understanding of psychology on it though is like watching the original “12 Angry Men” and thinking you understand the American Court system.

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I’ve also heard that they weren’t always that bad and that the movie was used by Reagan and others in order to defund actual mental health care.

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Yeah. There were genuine issues that needed to be addressed, but the answer wasn’t defunding healthcare.

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