From Mad in Finland: Throughout history, people have had a desire to diagnose. Deconstructing and defining things has led to new discoveries, but people have ultimately become blinded and stuck in their own definitions. Although it sounds easy to understand that the world is more than language and the words we use to define the world, there has been an excessive tendency to define against people. In medicine, psychiatry in particular suffers from this, and with it, numerous patients; patients who cannot make themselves understood in language, because language always remains incomplete.
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