Letter to Times: “our society itself is not a particularly salubrious collective psychological construct”

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Dermot Walsh (October 15th) asks what “conclusions may we draw from a situation where the abnormal has become the norm?” My own conclusion, for what it is worth after a half century plus scratching my vacuous cranial cavity over the hominid behaviour, like that of members of his own profession, from RD Laing to Thomas Szasz and our own esteemed Prof Ivor Browne, is that our society itself is not a particularly salubrious collective psychological construct; or as Krishnamurti famously expressed it, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” (Times) >