Charlie Sheen's heroic stance against the therapy police

The most revealing thing about the Sheen affair is the way normal emotions and failings are relentlessly psychologised today. Note how Time magazine puts the word “passion” in quote marks; others say that Sheen’s claim that he is simply “angry” is really a denial of the fact that he is “Mood Disordered”. Apparently everything we do and feel is really an expression of some inner imbalance that urgently needs to be fixed by modern-day witch doctors with a PhD in personality-policing. In refusing to go along with this nonsense, Sheen nicely reminds us that we alone are responsible for our behaviour, and that we alone can improve ourselves, when we’re ready.