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BTW, didn't the sociologist of deviance or maybe he was a psychologist -- Laing maybe? -- have a lot to do with th enotion that most of what was called mental illness in the 60s was socially constructed -- a way to marginalized and warehouse people? And that it was the imposition of questionable social norms and values on people that ought to be questioned, not anything real about mental illness at all? Can't recall his name but he was quite popular in the 70s and I recall a grad stud colleague being into his work. She is now an FBI agent, ditching PhD studies for career ("real") employment.
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Thomas Szasz?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry