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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under …

the Threshold is UD‘s title for the massive, ever more massive, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, with its infinitely embellished mental debility stories, in one of which you’re sure to find your sad, anxious, confused, discontented self.

By the simple expedient of having lowered the threshold for clinical disorders to include pretty much anything you’re experiencing right now, the editors of the upcoming DSM have broadened their market share to Everybody. Somewhere inside the Thousand and One Nights of the American Psychiatric Association lies a take-this-pill tale tailored to you, and to all of your children.

With this latest DSM, there’s absolutely no reason for you to put off spending the rest of your life taking psychotropic drugs.

Margaret Soltan, November 13, 2011 6:08PM
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3 Responses to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under …”

  1. david foster Says:

    Old saying: Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    david: Much more efficient way of saying what I’m trying to say, yes.

  3. dmf Says:

    one doesn’t have to be way out there with Thomas Szasz to worry about the infringements on our rights as citizens for all who have been, and will be, diagnosed as suffering from a mental illness and so not in their right minds…

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