Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Pre
Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychiatry, criticism, kraus, freud, karl, anti
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1990-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815602472
ISBN-13: 9780815602477

Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: consequences, idea, insanity
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 1997-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815604602
ISBN-13: 9780815604600

The idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems in living, as an excuse for crime and misbehaviour, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries - and, generally, as a metaphor and legal fiction. In "Insanity", Dr. Szasz presents a systematic articulation of the precise character and practical consequences of the idea of mental illness. He shows the way to a better understanding of this almost universally misunderstood condition by first establishing the scientific criteria and linguistic conventions

Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: psychiatry, symbol, sacred, schizophrenia
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 1988-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815602243
ISBN-13: 9780815602248

Author: Thomas Stephen Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: mental, health, movement, inquisition, study, madness, comparative, manufacture
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 1997-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0815604610
ISBN-13: 9780815604617

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 Szasz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: psychiatry, history, critical, cure, coercion
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2007-07-03
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765803798
ISBN-13: 9780765803795

In this provocative new study of the history of pschiatry, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about it. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. He contends that the truth about psychiatry, its self-evident ends, and the means used to achieve them is sociallly unacceptable. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession’s determining characteristic. Psychiatrists may "diagnose" or "treat" people without their consent or even against their cl

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: saved, madness
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2006-01-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0765803216
ISBN-13: 9780765803214

In My Madness Saved Me : The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf, Sas argues that Virginia Woolf was a victim neither of mental illness, nor psychiatry, nor her husband three ways she is regularly portrayed. He finds her to be an intelligent and self-assertive person, a moral agent who used mental illness, psychiatry, and her husband to fashion for herself a life of her own choosing. This is not to impute to Virginia Woolf some sort of limitless freedom of the will, nor is it to deny that the cultural and social milieu in which she grew up and lived had a profound impact on her psyche a

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: freedom, faith
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765802449
ISBN-13: 9780765802446

The ethical standards of psychiatric practice mandate that psychiatrists coerce certain innocent persons. Abstaining from such "intervention" is considered malpractice--dereliction of the psychiatrists "duty to protect." This duty reflects the fact that psychiatry is an arm of the coercive apparatus of the state, converting it to an institution Thomas Sas calls "psychiatric slavery." How should friends of freedom--especially libertarians--deal with the conflict between elementary libertarian principles and prevailing psychiatric practices? In Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychi