Comments on: Book review: Crazy Like Us

By: linda

linda — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:31:50 +0000

I was offended at the author’s completly ignoring of the heroic work of Rosalyn Carter to fund the community mental health centers during her husband’s presidency. She met with some success…subsequently squelched by Reagan’s actions. The author spoke about Kennedy’s establishing the idea of centers and Reagan’s attack on same………not a word about the intervening work of Ms. Carter! Big hole in his ‘history’.

By: Harish Prabhakaran

Harish Prabhakaran — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:21:14 +0000

I don’t really look forward to the day when everyone on this planet thinks and perceives like an American. On the other hand, as a Psychiatrist from the highly literate Kerala in India, I have been seeing that the unique manif
estations of mental illness eg. Possession states and it’s attendant barbaric folk treatments, are dwindling fast. That’s good. If anything, Western Medicine is more humane than older treatments.

By: cavall de quer

cavall de quer — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:38:24 +0000

“A seering critique of how the US is exporting its mental illnesses.” – according to the UK edition link……..far-seeing indeed.

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By: Emmy

Emmy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:02:07 +0000

Truly a unique topic, the way Watters seems to present it. While I don’t subscribe to popular conspiracy ideas (the drug companies created new mental illness categories so they can sell their drugs) – it does seem like Western medicine and religion are like a beast that gets fed in too many ways (Missionaries, aid groups, and yeah, drug companies) and has spiralled out of control.