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
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
This is a reprint of the 1999 publication in which Szasz (psychiatry, the State U. of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse) seeks to demedicalize and destigmatize voluntary death, to enable reader
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
Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, i
The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not
The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not
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
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
In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasure actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as "real" and Imagined" pain, or "phys
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
