What Is nor*mal?

摘要

During sex, Jack's girlfriend, Ann, let her Irish setter share the bed. Since the dogtook an interest in the proceedings, the arrangement made Jack uncomfortable. Psychiatry's critics also complain that doctors medicate patients who meet no diagnosis, who practice what I have dubbed "cosmetic psychopharmacology," to move a person from one normal, but disfavored personality state, like humility and diffidence, to another normal, but rewarded state, like self-assertion.