And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical Treatment

And You Thought They Were Side Effects: How Psychiatry Turned Chemical Disruption Into Medical Treatment

“A disease is a condition that people die from or are physically impaired by. Everything else is a human condition.” —Thomas Szasz The Language of Deception: How Psychiatry Sells Drugs as Medicine Imagine if Tylenol were marketed as a treatment for “Pain Sensitivity Disorder,” or if caffeine pills were labeled “Wakefulness Deficiency Medication.” The absurdity would be obvious. Yet psychiatry has done just that—turning drug effects into “cures” …