A man declares that he has received "privileged messages from other worldly beings" directing him to leave his family, quit his job, abandon all of his possessions except for what he can carry in a trash bag, and live on the streets drinking
alcohol daily. He declines all efforts to engage him in psychotherapy or any functions at a local shelter. Thomas Szasz would argue that the man's personal conduct: a. is neurotic
b. is psychotic
c. follows inexplicit game rules
d. necessitates involuntary psychiatric intervention
C
Szasz argues that mental illness is a myth. He suggests that personal conduct is always rule following, strategic, and meaningful. Patterns or interpersonal and social relations may be regarded and analyzed as if they were games, the behaviors of the players being governed by explicit or tacit game rules.
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