"The medical model serves society as an ideology which justifies covert social control. It also serves the interests of psychiatrists by supporting their identity as a physicians. The personal, professional, and economic interests of psychiatrists are promoted by the medical model. No medical model, no medical psychiatry. If mental illness "exists" then they are true members of the medical fraternity. If mental illnesses do not "exist," if the term is a metaphor which uses the language of medicine to judge and describe thoughts, feelings, and behavior, then psychiatrists cannot not be viewed as "real doctors." The medical model supports the self-interest of psychiatrists and psychiatrists promote the medical model. The critics of the medical model threaten the identity of psychiatrists and, hence, are ignored, suppressed, and repressed."
