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, USA. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.

• Preface Introduction: Liberty from Psychiatry I. Principles: Why Libertarianism and Psychiatry are Incompatible 1. Responsibility: The Moral Foundation of Liberty 2. The Libertarian Credo and the Ideology of Psychiatry 3. Economics and Psychiatry: Twin Scientisms 4. Economocracy and Pharmacracy: Twin Systems of Social Control II. Profiles: Where Some Famous Libertarians Went Wrong A. Civil Libertarians 5. John Stuart Mill 6. Bertrand Russell 7. The American Civil Liberties Union B. Objectivist Libertarians 8. Ayn Rand 9. Nathaniel Branden C. Libertarians 10. Ludwig von Mises 11. Friedrich von Hayek 12. Murray N. Rothbard 13. Robert Nozick 14. Julian Simon 15. Deirdre N. McCloskey Finale Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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, USA. He was a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and a critic of the moral and scientific foundation of psychiatry.

• Preface Introduction: Liberty from Psychiatry I. Principles: Why Libertarianism and Psychiatry are Incompatible 1. Responsibility: The Moral Foundation of Liberty 2. The Libertarian Credo and the Ideology of Psychiatry 3. Economics and Psychiatry: Twin Scientisms 4. Economocracy and Pharmacracy: Twin Systems of Social Control II. Profiles: Where Some Famous Libertarians Went Wrong A. Civil Libertarians 5. John Stuart Mill 6. Bertrand Russell 7. The American Civil Liberties Union B. Objectivist Libertarians 8. Ayn Rand 9. Nathaniel Branden C. Libertarians 10. Ludwig von Mises 11. Friedrich von Hayek 12. Murray N. Rothbard 13. Robert Nozick 14. Julian Simon 15. Deirdre N. McCloskey Finale Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index