DirtyOldTownThis article (DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry) is pernicious horseshit. (I will link the archive so I don't add a single click.)
If you don't know someone, haven't read their books, and never read their blog, maybe don't use a half-remembered review your partner wrote four years ago to make sweeping generalizations about what psychiatry did or didn't do for them.
I was *years* out of touch with Heather, so I can't speak for her here. But as someone who has also struggled with mental illness, this is gross, gross, axe-grindy, divorced-from-reality stuff.
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