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From Freud To Hollywood : Naive Prejudice Against People With Mental Illness

Alen J Salerian MD

February 28 2015

   Freud blamed bad mothers and unusual sexual encounters in early life to explain the great majority of psychiatric disorders. His major error was not to differentiate causation from association. A very common  scientific error  .

  By now we know that early life trauma or drugs may contribute to psychiatric disorders. This doesn't mean in general psychiatric disorders develop because of bad mothers or drugs. The prejudice is very subtle yet pervasive throughout the  media and Hollywood.       

   Gifted brains perpetuate the myth that bad mothers, childhood sexual mishaps and drugs cause almost all psychiatric problems..  Naive assumptions of sadistic  mothers and drugs making people mentally ill has become  a popular  and widely accepted paradigm .

   So when you have drugs sex and mean parents  you  may have a sexy blockbuster movie. Success breeds success. More movies exploit the same subtle moral prejudices and archaic Freudian concepts of mental illness.

   For sure these movies are entertaining. I enjoyed.“Maps To The Stars”. Are these movies harming some of us? Are we having a good time at the expense of humans with mental and physical pain?  Humans who may benefit from demolishing wrongful myths to have better lives.

   In America we are still in stone ages to deal with mental illness. From London's Bedlam to America's federal institutions  there has been some progress. It's good that we don't  charge visitors  a fee to view people with broken brains in cages. We just keep them busy with slave labor, punish them with solitary confinement.

   We also continue our white lies. We label  mentally ill as homeless to diminish guilt for ignoring  their brain problems. Our CDC dismisses  37,000 annual suicides and make a big fuss about prescriptions pain medication causing an epidemic of deaths. A false alarm which further discriminates against people with mental and physical pain.

 Freud was a brilliant observer , he just confused association with causation.

 What is our excuse to punish imperfect brains ?