| illness" as metaphorical illnesses; like how "sick jokes" are not literally sick. Or how a dope and/or ill rap song is not neither literally ill nor literally dope. Misery, fear,
| tragedy, trauma, and problems in living are quite real though, as far as we can determine with our senses.
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Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote extensively about the history of
| psychiatry including Freud. Szasz was an atheist Jew. In the book The Myth of Psychotherapy, Szasz wrote about how Frued utilized psychoanalysis to be a sort of an attack and maybe