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Reading "Sanity, Madness and the Family" by R.D. Laing and A. Esterson
I can't help but noticing that I was lucky enough to not have been born in the U.S. since I would have most certainly met the criteria and be formally institutionalised as a schizophrenic. There seems to a comparison that can be made between the recent social construction of Oppositional defiant disorder and this social construction known as schizophrenia in that both involves and develop by affording no room for autonomy to take hold naturally in a given person.
This isn't surprising. It is merely a pathologisation of a person's natural development when it opposes the interests of those who wish to oppress them, including, but not limited to, parents.
I can't help but noticing that I was lucky enough to not have been born in the U.S. since I would have most certainly met the criteria and be formally institutionalised as a schizophrenic. There seems to a comparison that can be made between the recent social construction of Oppositional defiant disorder and this social construction known as schizophrenia in that both involves and develop by affording no room for autonomy to take hold naturally in a given person.
This isn't surprising. It is merely a pathologisation of a person's natural development when it opposes the interests of those who wish to oppress them, including, but not limited to, parents.