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Author:   Thomas Szasz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780765802170

ISBN 10:   0765802171
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   31 January 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A; Addiction; Adolescents; Advertising; Agreement; Alcoholism; Americans; Antipsychiatry; Antipsychotic Drugs; Artisanship and Artificiality; Atheism; Atheists; Autonomy; B; Beauty; Behavior; Birth Control; Brain-Mind; C; Charlatan; Child; Child Psychiatry; Child Therapy; Choice; Cohabiting; Colonialism, American; Communism; Community; Conceit; Constitution; Control; Cooperation; Crime; Crisis; Cui Bono?; D; Dangerousness; Death; Deception; Decision; Deinstitutionalization; Delusion; Demagogue; Depression; Desire; Diagnosis; Dignity; Discipline; Disease; Drug; Drug Laws; Drug Education; E; Economics; Education; Electroshock; Empiricist; Entitlements; Equivalence; Error; Ethics; Excluding the Other; Excuses; Expectation; Explanation; Externalities; F; Family; Furor; G; Gambling; Gender; Genetics; Genius; Getting Along; God; H; Habit; Hallucination; Hatred; Health Care; Health Insurance; Health Maintenance Organization; “Hearing Voices”; Help; Hospital; Human Beings; Humanity; Hypnosis; Hypocrisy; I; Identity; Illness; Incontinence; Independence; Infanticide; Inflation; Injury; Insanity; Insanity Defense; Involuntary Mental Hospitalization; Irrational, Irrationality; Isms; J; Jews; Joy; K; Killing; Knowledge/Ignorance; L; Language; Law; Legitimacy; Libertarians; Liberty; Library; Lies; Life; Litigation; Location; Logic; Loneliness; Looking; Love; M; Madness; Marriage; Martyr; Media; Medicalization; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Meme; Memory; Men; Mental Health Services; Mental Hospital; Mental Illness; Mental Patients; Message/Messenger; Mind; Money; Monomedicine; Morals; Mystery; Myth of Mental Illness; N; Nationalism; Nature; Needs; O; Old Age; Organ Donation; Other, The; P; Paranoid Schizophrenia; Parents; Paternalism; Patient Role; Pen; Personal Conduct; Pharmacracy; Physician; Placebo; Politeness; Political Correctness; Politics; Power; Prevention; Property; Psychiatric Anarchy; Psychiatric Drugs; Psychiatrist; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Psychopharmacology; Psychotherapy; Punishment; Q; Quackery; R; Racism; Rational, Rationality; Reality; Reason; Redistribution; Religion; Responsibility; Right; Risk; Rule of Law; S; Sadism; Scapegoat; Schizophrenia; Science; Self; Self-Control; Self-Conversation; Self-Esteem; Self-Improvement; Sex; Slavery; Smoking; Social Control; Social Relations; Socialism; Speech; Standard of Care; State; Statism; Sterilization, Mental; Stigma; Suicide; Suicide Prevention; T; Theory; Therapeutic State; Time; Timidity; Transsexualism; Treat, Treatment; Truth; V; Value; Violence; W; War; Y; Youth; Z; Zombification; Zoophobia Psychiatrica

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"-Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology.- -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University ""Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology."" -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University"

-Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology.- -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology. -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University

Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology. -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University <br><br>

Thomas Szasz has created an extraordinary body of work, that continues to raise consequential challenges to the the prevailing myths of the culture of psychology. -- Tobias Wolff, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, Stanford University

Author Information

Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) was professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.

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