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University of Edinburgh

Psychiatry

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: medicine, health care

University website: www.ed.ac.uk

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Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.

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Psychiatry

Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, unthinking, conformist behavior.

Benjamin R. Barber, “Forced to be Free: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty,” Superman and Common Men (New York: 1971), pp. 68-69

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Psychiatry

I can't stand feeble, robotic psychiatrists. They give you false drugs and turn you into a zombie.

Ian Brady, as quoted in Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4

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Psychiatry

Nurse Ratched: If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest written by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben, adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey.

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