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Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Manufacture of Madness written by Thomas Szasz and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1970 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refers to psychiatric interventions imposed on persons by others.
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815604617
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Manufacture of Madness written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show “that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.”
Author : Thomas S. Szasz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104748
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Myth of Mental Illness written by Thomas S. Szasz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays. Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602569
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ideology and Insanity written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his position on “the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry.” On each of these issues, he opposed the official position of the psychiatric profession. Where conventional psychiatrists saw themselves diagnosing and treating mental illness, Szasz saw them stigmatizing and controlling persons; where they saw hospitals, Szasz saw prisons; where they saw courageous professional advocacy of individualism and freedom, Szasz saw craven support of collectivism and oppression.
Author : Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780710079930
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Age of Madness written by Thomas Stephen Szasz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1975 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602422
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Law, Liberty and Psychiatry written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 copy located in CIRCULATION.
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650442
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Psychiatry written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand—physicians, patients, politicians, health insurance providers, and legal professionals—take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating nondiseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and nondisease—genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood—thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain. There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medically and politically authenticated charlatanry are left to their own intellectual and moral resources to make critical decisions about human dilemmas miscategorized as “mental diseases” and about medicalized responses misidentified as “psychiatric treatments.” Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all backgrounds.
Author : Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Manufacture of Madness written by Thomas Stephen Szasz and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815605119
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Psychiatric Slavery written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policymakers today is adult dependency. Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for non-criminal conduct, go legally unpunished for the crimes they commit, and are supported by the state - not because they are sick, but because they are unproductive and unwanted. Obsessed with the twin beliefs that misbehaviour is a medical disorder and that the duty of the state is to protect adults from themselves, we have replaced criminal-punitive sentences with civil-therapeutic programmes. The result is the relentless loss of individual liberty and erosion of personal responsibility - symptoms of the transformation of a Constitutional Republic into a Therapeutic State, unconstrained by the rule of law.
Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607557
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fatal Freedom written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual’s right to choose F a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the psychiatric medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner that is disturbingly inhumane. Society’s penchant for defining behavior it terms objectionable as a disease has created a psychiatric establishment that exerts far too much influence over how and when we choose to die. In a compelling argument that clearly and intelligently addresses one of the most significant ethical issues of our time, Szasz compares suicide to other practices that historically began as sins, became crimes, and now arc seen as mental illnesses.
