> It could be that the supposedly "rogue" jet that broke formation had realized the others had lost course, and thus reestablished the "correct" course. This a

> It could be that the supposedly "rogue" jet that broke formation had realized the others had lost course, and thus reestablished the "correct" course. This analogy is flawed: it assumes there is some objectively "correct" course that exists. We could say that psychiatry is flawed because it assumes that the mean corresponds to "health," but this does not seem to be the point of psychiatry. Psychiatry isn't attempting to bring individuals into some objective "healthyness," rather it seems to be attempting to reincorporate deviant individuals back into society, flawed and unhealthy as that society (and treated individual) may be. The ethical implications of this are another question: a psychiatrist might argue that this is a good practice, as they are helping people remain within society, which will likely result in better outcomes along the broader society's axes of good and bad. Others, such as yourself, might argue that this is bad, for various reasons such as that the treatment results in suffering or that deviant individuals also have access to novel perspectives.