Yeah -- that actually makes me want to read Wintergirls, I may check it out. The only other book of hers I've read is Speak, which I think was well done mostly, but I seem to remember the fix being unrealistically effortless and complete. It has been years, though.
There are valid reasons to be anti-psychiatry, but they never come up in the "mental health care is evil" books; it's all brainwashing of people who were totally never mentally ill and taking away their eccentricity. No one is ever actually disabled and in need of services, or even actually disabled but not in need of services, everyone is secretly "sane."
I really wish we could get a more nuanced portrayal of therapy and psychiatric care, but I suspect that would require a more nuanced understanding of it in the culture in general.
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Date: 2014-06-22 08:22 pm (UTC)There are valid reasons to be anti-psychiatry, but they never come up in the "mental health care is evil" books; it's all brainwashing of people who were totally never mentally ill and taking away their eccentricity. No one is ever actually disabled and in need of services, or even actually disabled but not in need of services, everyone is secretly "sane."
I really wish we could get a more nuanced portrayal of therapy and psychiatric care, but I suspect that would require a more nuanced understanding of it in the culture in general.