Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?

Abstract

One powerful reason Lucia had decided to major in psychology was that she wanted to help people like her brother, who had a psychotic break in his teens and had been in and out of hospitals since. She had lived with mental illness, had seen that look in her brother's eyes. ... The assertion that there was no such thing as mental illness, that it was a myth, seemed incomprehensible to her. She had trouble even entertaining it as a hypothesis .... Szasz's bold claim was a bone sticking in her assumptive craw. Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary 183-84.