50th 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
A leading authority on the study of psychiatry, mental illness, and its treatment portrays of the integral role of deception in the history, diagnosis, and practice of psychiatry.
The "ritual persecution" of drugs and drug users must be seen as similar to the persecution of other scapegoats such as witches and madmen, according to Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, State U. of New Yo
Given all the syndromes, diseases and disorders out there, how long will it be before everyone in America will be considered nuts? Szasz (psychiatry emeritus, State U. of New York), a leading opponent
Dr. Szasz (emeritus, State U. of New York Upstate Medical U. in Syracuse, NY) has been a gadfly to both the mainstream psychiatric community and the anti-psychiatry movement ever since the launching o
A reprint of the Doubleday edition (1980) with a new preface by Szasz (psychiatry, SUNY Health Sci. Center, Syracuse). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Thomas Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical U.) is known for his theories on the myth of mental illness and is recognized as the leading critic of the coercive interventions employed by t
Reprint of Szasz's seminal work (originally published by Harper & Row in 1970) in which the eminent psychiatrist draws parallels between systematic persecution of the heretic as defined by those i
Szasz (psychiatry, State U. of New York) challenges the way both science and society define insanity, showing how the concept of insanity relates to and differs from ideas of bodily illness, social de
This is a reprint of a 2001 book published by Praeger, with a new preface by the author. Szasz (emeritus, psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University) explores the development
Thomas Szasz has been challenging the very existence of "mental illness" for over twenty-five years. His advocacy of freedom of choice and the abolition of involuntary psychiatry has made him America'
In The Meaning of Mind, Thomas Szasz argues that only as a verb does the word "mind" name something in the real world, namely, attending or heeding. Minding is the ability to pay attention and adapt t
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: t
