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Modernizing societies are therefore structured more like a mosaic than a pyramid. Modernization is the tendency for growth in the adaptive complexity and efficiency of the social systems. Growth in complexity is shaped by selection processes which maintain the functionality of social systems. The best examples are the market economy, science and democratic politics. The process of modernization is both inevitable and, on the whole, desirable: this constitutes the modernization imperative. 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Yet, in recent decades, it's been embraced by the mainstream political Right and Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical correctness therefore represents the triumph of the Left. Nonetheless, it very obviously violates both common sense and logic and is destructive of all that is good, beautiful and true. So, at one and the same time, PC is marginal and mainstream, ridiculous and mandatory, crazy and normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical correctness obviously dominates its core territory of politics, public administration (the civil service), law, education and (especially ) the mass media. 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Scientists no longer believe in the truth. They no longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond our human organisation which they have a duty to discover and disseminate. Hence, the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern science are not \u003cstrong\u003ereal\u003c\/strong\u003e science but merely a professional research bureaucracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe consequences? 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Psychiatric signs and symptoms - such as anxiety insomnia malaise fatigue - are part of life for most people for much of the time. This is the human condition. Psychiatry has the potential to help. In particular psychotropic drugs could enable more people to lead lives that are creative and fulfilled. But current classifications and treatments derive from a century-old framework which now requires replacement. Available psychotropic drugs are used crudely and without sufficient attention to their psychological effects. We can do better. This book argues that obsolete categories of diseases and drugs should be scrapped. The new framework of understanding implies that clinical management should focus on the treatment of biologically-valid symptoms and signs and include a much larger role for self-treatment. Psychiatric symptoms are part of the human condition and all humans will find something of interest in this book. 'Psychiatry and the Human Condition offers a startling reinterpretation of the major psychiatric disorders. The bold ideas in this book are grounded in a thoughtful integration of general biology and neuroscience and a deep understanding of mental illness.  But this is no mere demolishing job on traditional psychiatry.  The courageous rejection of orthodox views is followed by intriguingly constructive and testable alternatives.  This is a must read.' Antonio R Damasio MD  Professor of Neurology University of Iowa; author of The Feeling of What Happens and Descartes' 'In recent years there has been a vacuum at the heart of psychiatry.  There has been no theory to explain the nature of the conditions we are treating why our therapies have the effect they do and no theory to predict where the new therapies might come from.  This new book uniquely fills the void. It comes as a considerable surprise to find that someone can unite the fragments of psychiatry into a coherent whole.'  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