What IS drapotomania?
It's a terrible "disease." A "metal illness." (According to some psychiatrists.) Do you have it?
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The expert who came up with that disease even had a cure.
Listen to Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist, award winner for "Humanist of the Year, (in 1973,) and professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, (1990) as he talks about drapotomania and other "mental illnesses" like ADHD.
Thomas Szasz on ADHD, drugs, psychiatry, drapetomania, hysteria, stigmatization
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