Literalizing Metaphors

in szaszian •  6 years ago 

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz labels psychiatric diagnoses as being literalized metaphors. Like Catholic priests supposedly turning bread and wine into the literal body and blood of Christ, psychiatrists turn metaphorical diseases into literal brain diseases. There is absolutely no proof that mental disorders are actual brain disorders.

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