The term "psychiatry" ought to be applied to one or the other, but not both. As long as psychiatrists and society refuse to recognize this, there can be no real psychiatric historiography. The coercive character of psychiatry was more apparent in the past than it is now. Then, insanity was synonymous with unfitness for liberty.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a new type of psychiatric relationship developed, when people experiencing so-called "nervous symptoms," sought help. This led to a distinction between two kinds of mental diseases: neuroses and psychoses. Persons who complained about their own behavior were classified as neurotic, whereas persons about whose behavior others complained were classified as psychotic.
The legal, medical, psychiatric, and social denial of this simple distinction and its far-reaching implications undergirds the house of cards that is modern psychiatry. Exposes and examines the hidden threats to liberty and the rule of law posed by "pharmacracy"--the emerging alliance of the government and the health-care system. Classically controversial Szasz here challenges "modern" science's attempts to define the human mind as merely a collection of brain functions.
He is the author of 23 books, among them the classic, The Myth of Mental Illness. Since he published The Myth of Mental Illness in , professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz has been the scourge of the psychiatric establishment.
In dozens of books and articles, he has argued passionately and knowledgeably against compulsory commitment of the mentally ill, against the war on drugs, against the insanity defense in criminal trials, against the "diseasing" of voluntary humanpractices such as addiction and homosexual behavior, against the drugging of schoolchildren with Ritalin, and for the right to suicide.
Most controversial of all has been his denial that "mental illness" is a literal disease, treatable by medical practitioners. In Szasz Under Fire, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other leading experts who disagree with Szasz on specific issues explain the reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them.
Topics debated include the nature of mental illness, the right to suicide, the insanity defense, the use and abuse of drugs, and the responsibilities of psychiatrists and therapists.
These exchanges are preceded by Szasz's autobiography and followed by a bibliography of his works. Ignorance, haziness, omission, and inconsistency are exposed--Hayek's work on theoretical psychology is "a monumental mistake.
I am amazed that he has kept his humor and good sense after half a century making the argument that freedom, after all, is best. A less sane person would long since have abandoned reason and evidence. Szasz makes a devastating logical and factual case against what he calls the new slavery. As someone who has in a small way experienced the slavery, I can appreciate his advocacy of voluntary psychiatry. In the past few years, an increasing number of colleges and universities have added courses in biomedical ethics to their curricula.
To some extent, these additions serve to satisfy student demands for "relevance. An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries.
In Mad. This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than thirty years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry. Is insanity a myth? Does it exist merely to keep psychiatrists in business?
Szasz challenges the way both science and society define insanity; in the process, he helps us better understand this often misunderstood condition. Szasz presents a carefully crafted account. For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in.
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