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The primary challenge is not merely the acquisition of new knowledge or technological advancement, but the preservation of the wisdom necessary to apply these capabilities judiciously.
We have created what amounts to a diagnostic-industrial-government complex - a self-reinforcing system in which everyone benefits from more diagnoses except the patients.
The 20th century was the age of diagnosis. The 21st must become the age of recovery, measured not by how many people we enrol in the mental health system, but by how many no longer need it.
