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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas SzaszPublisher: Syracuse University Press Imprint: Syracuse University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780815609100ISBN 10: 0815609108 Pages: 148 Publication Date: 30 September 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world. - Richard Vatz, Towson University [Thomas Szasz] is the preeminent critic of psychiatry in the world. - Richard Vatz, Towson University Author InformationThomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York's Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. His books include Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, The Manufacture of Madness, Ideology, and Insanity, Ceremonial Chemistry, The Myth of Psychotherapy, and Pharmacracy, all published by Syracuse University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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