"The validity of the DSM can be easily called into question because it purports to outline and classify disorders without providing a legitimate operational definition of that concept. ... No solution to the DSM's definitional problem is immediately evident. A new definition that solves the outlined problems is unlikely to emerge. If trends continue no disorder will be removed from the DSM to improve its consistency. Unfortunately, the DSM will probably continue to be dominated by the same nonscientific factors that led to the current problems. Until this trend is corrected, the DSM concept of mental disorder will remain an inde-finable and invalid concept." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)

"The scientific concept of disease is materialistic. Disease is an abnormal condition of the body, impairing its function. It was defined and detected by empirical study and by understanding the anatomy and physiology of the human body. The scientific physician's primary task was to objectively identify diseases, that is, make accurate clinical diagnoses, confirmed by postmortem diagnoses. By this definition, mental disease was, and remains, an oxymoron." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 33)

 "Psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the mental health professions are the intellectually, morally, and politically toxic side effects of the development of scientific medicine. Still, regardless of evidence or reasoning, most people "believe" in mental illness, claiming that "its" existence is obvious." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 16)

"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) stands atone as the world's most utilized psychiatric reference (American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2006). A total of 365 different disorders are defined within the manual (Houts, 2002). Officially, the stated purpose of the DSM is classification of disorders; in practice, it also constitutes a guide to the behaviors that make up the concept of mental disorder. The framers of the DSM were reticent, however, to explicitly define the term mental disorder. In fact, the manual states that "mental disorder, like many other concepts in medicine and science, lacks a consistent operational definition that covers all situations" (American Psychiatric Association EAPAL 2000, p. xxx) Unfortunately, avoiding commitment to an operational definition does not eliminate the need to demonstrate validity. I will argue in this paper that the DSM concept of disorder lacks validity because the behaviors listed as mental disorders cannot be accounted for using one definition of mental illness." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)

"The time before MRIs and PET scans is often characterized as the psychoanalytic Dark Age, but it must be remembered that the conceptualization of mental illness as biological is as old as mental illness itself. Of course, the biological perspective stretches all the way back to Hippocrates, but it was also prevalent among the very earliest psychiatrists. The opening editorial of the Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases published in 1867 stated that "Psychiatry has undergone a transformation in its relation to the rest of medicine. This transformation rests principally on the realization that patients with so-called `mental illnesses' are really individuals with illnesses of the nerves and brain" (as quoted in Bentall, 2003, p. 150)." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)

"A definition of mental disorder is offered in the DSM. The definition states that a mental disorder is a: "Clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom." (APA, 2000, p. xxxi)" (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)

"The definition of mental disorder offered in the DSM is not generally used or accepted." (The Journal of mind and behavior, Guy A. Boysen, v28, p 157-173)

"Although there are no mental illnesses, there assuredly are unwanted behaviors and persons. The point is that we mistake behaviors called "mental illnesses" for real illnesses just as we mistake counterfeit one hundred-dollar bills for genuine one hundred-dollar bills. The difference is that counterfeit bills can be exposed as fakes, whereas "mental illnesses" cannot. Indeed, so deep and widespread is the popular faith in fake illnesses as real diseases that persons who deny their medical legitimacy or status are routinely branded as crazies, modern flat-earthers. Even experts inclined to take a skeptical view of psychiatry continue to use the term mental illness." (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 14)

physical illness vs. mental illness is exactly corollary to typhoid fever vs. spring fever. Spring fever can make people do things that they would not normally do and say things they would not normally say. Spring fever can appear to be a kind of "split personality": Who is this person in love? Why is she walking listlessly and blissfully in the moonlight as though oblivious to the fact.

With the dawn of the scientific age in the 19th century, the devil raised Darwin to misuse science to prove God doesn't exist and Freud to prove sin doesn't exist.

Evolution is the Devil's science to remove God from God from the creation of the world. Psychiatry is the Devil's science to define the sinful actions of and thoughts of men as physical sicknesses. The full flower of Psychiatry has not bloomed into sin being defined as a chemical imbalance in the brain and bad DNA. God and sin have been removed from theater of modern society.

In a kind of neo-gnostisicm, Chemical psychiatry seeks to validate and justify sinful behaviour of men by blaming it on their body. Biblical psychiatry demands the same man repent of the sin, change his actions and ask God for forgiveness. Chemical psychiatry turns sin into disease and dissassociates a person's actions from his personal responsibility for those sins. in Chemical psychiatry, the person is not at fault for his actions, in Biblical psychiatry, each man will be held directly accountable for every action because there is no exception for sin because of "mental illness" in the Bible.

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What is not mental illness: depression, anxiety, suicidal, psychopath, sociopath, odd behaviour.

What is not mental illness: delusion, paranoia, hallucinations,

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The Conscience

Psychopaths and sociopaths

1. Hannibal in "Silence of the lambs" is what we imagine psychopaths to be. Psychopaths are famous in Hollywood movies for cutting body parts off a random victim, eating them while still alive, then dumping them in the snow to slowly freeze to death. This is the image that comes to mind when we think of a psychopath.
   
   Hannibal Lecter in "Silence of the lambs"

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