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People with mental illnesses are frequently discriminated against by others who think it's an uncommon condition and believe in harmful stereotypes. The truth is that mental illness can . Maximize Your Potential · Meeting Special Needs · Partnering With Animals. THE l&iYTX OF MENTAL ILLNESS deviations in cases of mental illness, we will now turn to the question: ‘Vho defines the norms and hence the deviation?” \ Two basic answers may be . the abstraction “mental illness” into a CW.W, even though this abstraction was created in the first place to serve only as a shorthand expression for certain types of human behavior. It now becomes neces- sary to ask: “What kinds of behavior are regarded as indicative of mental illness, and by whom?”. Apr 27, · Fifty years ago I noted that modern psychiatry rests on a basic conceptual error - the systematic misinterpretation of unwanted behaviours as the diagnoses of mental illnesses pointing to. In , President William J. Clinton declared: “Mental illness can be accurately diagnosed, successfully treated, just as physical illness.”3 Tipper Gore, President Clinton’s mental health adviser, stated: “One of the most widely believed and most damaging myths is that mental illness is not a physical disease. Nothing could be. the abstraction “mental illness” into a CW.W, even though this abstraction was created in the first place to serve only as a shorthand expression for certain types of human behavior. It now becomes neces- sary to ask: “What kinds of behavior are regarded as indicative of mental illness, and by whom?”. THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS THOMAS SZASZ At the core of virtually all contemporary psychiatrie theories and practices lies the concept of mental illness. A critical examination of this concept is therefore indispensable for understanding the ideas, institutions, and interventions of psychiatrists. The author of The Myth of Mental Illness puts forward the view that pa*ie with mental disorders should, after all, not be regarded as ill, because they do not suffer from any demonstrable physico-chemical disorders of their bodies.