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Coercion as Cure
A Critical History of Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 2017
2439 kr
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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, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. …
Myth of Psychotherapy
Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
225 kr
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This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy.
Psychiatric Slavery
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1998
122 kr
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Re-examining psychiatric interventions from a cultural-historical and political-economic perspective, Szasz demonstrates that the main problem that faces mental health policymakers today is adult dependency. Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors for …
Lexicon of Lunacy
Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 1993
1148 kr
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Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the …
Fatal Freedom
The Ethics and Politics of Suicide
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 1999
854 kr
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Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. The author, a renowned psychiatrist, believes that we can speak about suicide calmly and rationally, as he does in this book, and that we can ultimately accept suicide as part of the human condition. By …
Meaning of Mind
Language, Morality, and Neuroscience
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 1996
854 kr
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In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions. Instead of trying to unravel the riddle of a mythical entity called the mind, Szasz suggests that our task should be to understand and judge …
Schizophrenia
The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
225 kr
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Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease. He believes psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will.
Our Right to Drugs
The Case for a Free Market
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 1992
880 kr
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.In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a dim memory, if that. …
Words to the Wise
A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible. Human understanding is likely to be incomplete at best and, more often, utterly fallacious. To make matters worse, it is likely to be supported as truth and wisdom by religious and scientific authority, …
Pain and Pleasure
A Study of Bodily Feelings
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
225 kr
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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 "physical" and "intellectual" pleasure, he analyses the basic concepts-psychological, philosophical, and …
Closed Systems and Open Minds
The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 2006
866 kr
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Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any …
Pharmacracy
Medicine and Politics in America
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 2001
516 kr
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In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as healthy or sick--unwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were health issues. The …
Pharmacracy
Medicine and Politics in America
Av Thomas Szasz
E-bok, 2001
562 kr
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In recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as healthy or sick--unwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were health issues. The …
Faith in Freedom
Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 2004
2585 kr
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The libertarian philosophy of freedom is characterized by two fundamental beliefs: the right to be left alone and the duty to leave others alone. Psychiatric practice routinely violates both of these beliefs. It is based on the notion that self-ownership—exemplified by suicide—is a not an inherent …
My Madness Saved Me
The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf
Av Thomas Szasz
Inbunden, 2006
2887 kr
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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 mentally ill but was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. In this daring exploration of Woolf's life and …
Lexicon of Lunacy
Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 2003
816 kr
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Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the …
Liberation by Oppression
A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 2003
816 kr
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Originally called mad-doctoring, psychiatry began in the seventeenth century with the establishing of madhouses and the legal empowering of doctors to incarcerate persons denominated as insane. Until the end of the nineteenth century, every relationship between psychiatrist and patient was based on …
Untamed Tongue
A Dissenting Dictionary
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1990
372 kr
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Szasz attacks the sacred cows of contemporary American society. In his acerbic and aphoristic style he rails against the hypocrisy and fraudulence of the futile and murderous war against drugs, the sordid and often self-seeking practices of psychotherapy and the atrocities of psychiatry.
Theology of Medicine
The Political-Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
223 kr
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A collection of essays by Szasz, showing the philosophical foundations he believes are necessary for a society which truly supports freedom and autonomy of the individual.
Ethics of Psychoanalysis
The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
194 kr
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An exposition of the nature, possibilities and limitations of psychoanalytic treatment, defending the essence of psychoanalysis against moralistic and conformist misuse.
Psychiatric Justice
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1988
199 kr
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Dealing with the relationship between psychiatry and the law, this book looks at the federal and state procedures which render impotent the constitutional right to a speedy and public trial. Trial transcripts are used to support the author's arguments.
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1989
202 kr
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Dr. Thomas Szasz on the shortcomings of commitment procedures, and the inadequacies of protections afforded patients in psychiatric institutions. He alerts us to the existing and potential abuses of human rights in mental health programs and procedures.
Anti-Freud
Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psycho-analysis and Psychiatry
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1990
230 kr
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Sigmund Freud once courted the favour of Austrian writer and satirist, Karl Kraus, and failed to obtain it. Kraus's favourite themes were the power of language, its abuse by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and journalists, and the catastrophic consequences of this abuse. According to Thomas Szasz, …
Sex by Prescription
The Startling Truth About Today's Sex Therapy
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1990
211 kr
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For St Augustine, sexual desire was a disease; to the great doctors of coitus today, lack of sexual desire is a disease. For Dr Szasz, both these presumptions are absurd and unscientific. He argues persuasively that human sexuality - however it may be expressed - reveals and reflects who we are and …
Ideology and Insanity
Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1991
225 kr
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This book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his position on "the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry." On each of these issues, he opposed the official position of the psychiatric profession. Where conventional psychiatrists saw themselves …
Myth of Psychotherapy
Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression
Av Thomas Szasz
E-bok, 2015
268 kr
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The Myth of Psychotherapy is a provocative critique of psychotherapy and its role in modern society. Szasz contends that mental illness itself is a myth, a construct used to justify psychiatric intervention and social control. He examines how therapists offer guidance and moral judgment under the …
Our Right to Drugs
The Case for a Free Market
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1996
189 kr
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In ""Our Right to Drugs"", Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I the free market in drugs was but a dim memory. Instead of dwelling on the …
Insanity
The Idea and Its Consequences
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1997
225 kr
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The idea of insanity pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Thomas Szasz contends that the term actually functions as a euphemism for problems in living, as an excuse for crime and misbehaviour, as a stigma for invalidating adversaries - and, generally, as a metaphor and legal fiction. In …
Manufacture of Madness
A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1997
222 kr
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In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show "that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in …
Cruel Compassion
Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Av Thomas Szasz
Häftad, 1998
225 kr
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In this short work, Dr. Szasz takes aim at conventional psychiatry, and at the attendent system of courts, hospitals, and psychiatrists who confine patients against their will. The focal point is a Supreme Court case involving a man forcibly committed to a Florida asylum for 14 years. In refuting …
