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Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
Submitted by Eric Field on Wed, 2013-02-06 01:00
"In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them are not."
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