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Overview50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus Essays The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas S. SzaszPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperPerennial Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.268kg ISBN: 9780061771224ISBN 10: 0061771228 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 01 March 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe 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 Enormously courageous and highly infomative, and it makes fascinating reading . . . bold and often brilliant. -- Science Controversial and influential . . . an iconoclastic work. -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review Szasz's radical views on mental illness and drug addiction have been presented with great consistency and courage . . . I predict that Dr. Szasz's work and thought will once again come to the fore: he takes the long view. -- Will Self, The Times (London) A classic. -- Salon.com A damning critique of mental illness . . . a classic work. -- Toronto Star Quite probably, Szasz has done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential dangers of an excessively psychiatrized society. -- Atlantic Monthly 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 Enormously courageous and highly infomative, and it makes fascinating reading . . . bold and often brilliant. - Science Controversial and influential . . . an iconoclastic work. - Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review Szasz's radical views on mental illness and drug addiction have been presented with great consistency and courage . . . I predict that Dr. Szasz's work and thought will once again come to the fore: he takes the long view. - Will Self, The Times (London) A classic. - Salon.com A damning critique of mental illness . . . a classic work. - Toronto Star Quite probably, Szasz has done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential dangers of an excessively psychiatrized society. - Atlantic Monthly Author InformationBorn in Budapest, Hungary, Thomas Szasz is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, where he has taught since 1956. He earned his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati and received psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In addition to THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS, his best-known work, Dr. Szasz is the author of 30 scholarly books and numerous academic articles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |