161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
The Michael Shermer Show
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Thetealstigma, Self Stigma - Is That a Disease?
In nobody's normal, you have the discussions of hysteria. Well, men can't get hysteri, cause that's a female disease. So what are these soldiers after world war too experiencing? Oh, shell shock. That's a much more manly kind of disordered an hysteria. But even a popular, no funnier than that, was the drapedomania, which is the tendency of black slaves to want o escape to freedom. And, you know, they just can't. That's not normal. They're supposed to be slaves. The treatment will drive the diagnosis. Even the treatment can se it can sometimes go the other way.
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