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Dès septembre 1986, Réveillez-vous ! traitait la maladie mentale comme une maladie de la chimie du cerveau, décrivant les médicaments antipsychotiques comme un traitement efficace et demandant : 'Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?'

Claim ID claim-attitudes-mental-illness-1986-diseaseConcerns 8 septembre 1986Réinterprétation ultérieure

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Dès septembre 1986, Réveillez-vous ! traitait la maladie mentale comme une maladie de la chimie du cerveau, décrivant les médicaments antipsychotiques comme un traitement efficace et demandant : 'Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts?' Source: Awake!, 8 septembre 1986

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Awake!, “Mental Illness—Is There a Cure?”

8 septembre 1986 · pp.6-10 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Why, then, look upon patients who use these medications as weak-minded or as drug addicts? Antipsychotic drugs are not addictive, do not make patients high, and are not taken for pleasure.”

Part of an issue-length treatment headed 'Taking the Mystery out of Mental Illness'. It follows a woman through electroshock therapy, hospitalisation and antipsychotic medication, quotes NIMH researchers, treats schizophrenia as a disease of brain chemistry, and cautions against 'sensational claims' for alternative treatments including orthomolecular psychiatry.

Note de provenance et de vérification for Awake!, Mental Illness—Is There a Cure?

Note sur la fiabilité. Full article read on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; page markers in the page's own HTML place the quoted paragraph on page 7.

Notes. Eleven years earlier the same publisher had told readers to scrutinise any treatment a psychiatrist recommended (Questions From Readers, 15 April 1975).

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-hlth-g-1986-0908-mental-illness-cure

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