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Szasz, T. (1987). //Insanity: The idea and its consequences//. Retrieved August 23, 2013, from Google. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LE5WUcD-aJUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=society+and+mental+illnesses&ots=K1AA_BZG0l&sig=9U134CA5sLA_cv17eWEnBAByQyE#v=onepage&q=society%20and%20mental%20illnesses&f=false

__ **Facts** __ 1. In the nineteenth century, the meaning of the word "insanity" was changed to "mental illness" and are now being renamed "neurobiological diseases". 2. History of psychiatry is simply that after diagnosing that someone is insane they put them in a madhouse. 3. "Next we usually examine the back cover, namely, what the psychiatrist says about the patient and does with him or to him. Often people go no further, satisfied that they can judge a book by its cover -- or covers. I believe something like this has happened with mental illness and psychiatry." 4."Today, everyone -- including jurists and politicians, physicians and scientists -- takes it for granted that just as bodily illness is an objectively definable and identifiable condition, so too is mental illness." 5. There are two types of illnesses; deviations of biological norms and deviations of social norms. Biological norms are comprised of things such as cancer and heart disease. Social norms are comprised of things such as depression and schizophrenia. 6."As we distinguish between lawbreaking and crime, so we must also distinguish between peculiar behavior and psychosis." 7. Psychiatrists often claim that some sort of behavior is considered a mental illness because "it responds to psychiatric treatment," they say. 8. An individual seeks out a physician with what the patient believes are symptoms of a medical disease. 9. "Because art is much older than psychiatry, artists have had a big jump on insanity. 10. If somebody endangers himself or others, by drinking to much alcohol, they are considered irresponsible.