Changes in the rules of conduct and the reclassification of behavior
Mortimer Adler [in What Man Has Made of Man: A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology] has correctly noted that psychoanalysts "are trying to swallow everything in psychoanalysis" (p. 123) Is this good? It is difficult to see why we should permit, much less encourage, such expansionism in a professional discipline and a science.
The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) by Thomas Szasz, pp. 43-44
posted by Terrence Berres at 7:16 PM
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In my experience with the mental health care profession, the concept of moral responsibility has largely been discarded in favor of utility (is this behavior working for you).
Given that the person already has a moral framework, this utility-based, morally neutral approach works fairly well because morality is part of the person's definition of utility.
If the subject is a psychopath (antisocial personality disorder) without a conscience or moral framework, modern morally neutral therapy simply enables the person to further justify their course of action, now with fancy psychological terminology.
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