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Loren Booda
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Thomas Szasz and the antipsychiatry movement claim that the brain is somehow radically different than the rest of the body, that symptoms of mental illness are medically untreatable, nonexistant or figments of society. So what of the ancient history of psychoactive substances which have affected the brain in an albeit crude way? Cannot modern biochemistry and psychotherapy treat mental illness in an improved manner, just as eliminating social stigma is so deservedly acknowledged to do?