{"id":279,"date":"2010-05-22T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T14:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=279"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:09","slug":"the-difference-between-a-disease-and-a-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/22\/the-difference-between-a-disease-and-a-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between A Disease and a Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/2010\/03\/04\/50-years-ago-thomas-szasz-rocked-the-world-of-psychiatry-the-difference-between-a-disease-and-a-disorder\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/szasz_bw_bf_295x193.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>50 Years Ago Dr. Thomas Szasz Rocked The World of Psychiatry: The Difference Between A Disease and a Disorder<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em;\">By Dr. Jeffrey Schaler<br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Justice, Law &amp; Society<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em;\">It is fifty years now since Thomas Szasz rocked the world of psychiatry by writing <em>The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct<\/em>. His work continues to have a profound impact on how we think about disease, behavior, liberty, justice, responsibility, and most important of all, what it means to be human. Szasz has shown us how the idea of mental illness is used by the state to deprive innocent people of freedom, and guilty persons of justice. Without the state involved, the medicalization of behavior means nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/2010\/03\/04\/50-years-ago-thomas-szasz-rocked-the-world-of-psychiatry-the-difference-between-a-disease-and-a-disorder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of mental illness is used by the state to deprive innocent people of freedom, and guilty persons of justice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/22\/the-difference-between-a-disease-and-a-disorder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-4v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}