Tema: ¿Están los felices locos?

Es una sátira en contra de la psiquiatría actual. El autor no pretende decir que los felices están locos, sino cuestionar la ligereza con que la psiquiatría clasifica a los pacientes e inventa nuevos trastornos psiquiátricos. En estos enlaces lo explican:

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Happiness As A Psychiatric Disorder

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As Bentall explains in his Madness explained: psychosis and human nature, he intended to suggest that happiness was a psychiatric illness as a satire on the medical model that was, and continues to be, the dominant paradigm through which psychiatric practice is concieved, planned and organised. While Bentall intended this as a cutting spoof, a few media outlets and psychiatric journals took him at his word and cited it as evidence of the madness of psychiatry in its pursuit of relentless pathologisation, or painting scientific research as so completely detached from everyday life, so totally “ceased living in things”, as to be absurd. One newspaper even running the headline “Top Doc Talks Through Hat”. Bentall even uses his mocking article to bring the question of happiness into contact with political economic terms, coolly reporting that

Interestingly, despite all the uncertainty about the epidemiology of happiness, there is some evidence that it is unevenly distributed amongst the social classes…

Bentall’s cutting paper uses humour as a weapon to slash the pretentious throat of biological psychiatry’s classificatory system, a fetish that I’m sure has also been sardonically cited as evidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

De todas formas, esto demuestra que las revistas científicas carecen de seriedad y publican todo tipo de tonterías e incluso bulos fabricados adrede, como por otra parte ya se sabía:

Un falso estudio científico pone en entredicho los filtros de 157 revistas de 'open acces'