I've heard the same, that it's a dubious classification. As such, it would be a case of the analyst gaving birth to a new illness as a way of treating his own anxieties of diagnosis. Also, why would it be endemic to the *bourgeois* ego--couldn't working class folk suffer from it as well.
. . . it can certainly
> have political
> _effects_: it (or the symptoms so identified) has
> the effect of making
> the person quite incapable of placing blame on
> structures rather than
> individuals.
Which, I would think, is the case with most mental ailments and their treatments. Is this not the case with depression?
Alec
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