more on Mental Health Screening for All Americans Proposed?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I believe this is not a political issue but a classic case where both 
sides of oure political process should have much to fear .

Dave

Begin forwarded message:

From: Amos Jessup <amos () san rr com>
Date: August 10, 2004 11:32:47 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: Mental Health Screening for All Americans Proposed?

Dave:

This report is the beginning of a tragedy if the kind of approach it
suggests is followed through. The core and root of its tragedy is a 
simple
but stunningly important falsehood: without a "true" model of the human
mind, defining mental health is an exercise in authoritarian opinion.  
There
is no such model which uniformly predicts phenomena and explains 
observed
phenomena.  Yet without such a model the industry has no business 
posing as
the source of authority for governmental interference in individual 
lives.

A. H. Jessup
San Diego

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