Original sentence: He has attempted to distance himself from the connection, though, noting that he is not opposed to the practice of psychiatry if it is non-coercive.Mainstream pyschiatrists argue that Szasz's theories deserve refutation only because they are often cited by Scientologists and other anti-psychiatric groups.Moreover, serious mental illness is now regularly "approached, measured, or tested in scientific fashion.Szasz himself conducts a traditional psychoanalytic practice for individuals with problems of living; there is nothing in his writings to suggest that he has any experience with or ever treats patients with serious mental illness.Szasz is associated with the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s.Szasz's opinions are inconsistent with those of the American Psychiatric Association (the international association of 36,000 psychiatrists), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), and every other mainstream organization on mental health issues.Szasz's view that "mental illness is a myth" is a fringe position long since discredited by modern psychiatry
Edited sentence: Among other things, they argue that some so-called mental illnesses are genuine brain diseases, although their precise etiologies have not been figured out yet; that if mental illness is a myth, so is physical illness, because both categories have fuzzy boundaries and are to a large extent culturally determined; that viewing mental illness as a myth is a fiction that is necessary to maintain the integrity of psychotherapy as a moral enterprise; and that the distinction between mental and physical disease is misleading, since (as the American Psychiatric Association puts it) 'there is much that is "physical" in mental disorders and much 'mental' in "physical" disorders.He has distanced himself from the anti-psychiatrists, however, arguing that in practice they were frequently as coercive as the mainstream psychiatrists they criticized.Szasz's critics, in the words of journalist Jacob Sullum, "offer various alternatives to the Szaszian perspective, which insists upon an objectively measurable bodily defect as the sine qua non of a true disease.Szasz's critique is frequently confused with that of the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s