Coercion as Cure
A Critical History of Psychiatry
Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study of this nominal medical specialty,Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact,psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bonafide illnesses. He contends that the truth about psychiatry, its self-evident ends, and the means used to achieve them is socially unacceptable. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristic.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Szasz, Thomas
- ISBN: 978-1-4128-1050-0
- EAN: 9781412810500
- Produktnummer: 4395118
- Verlag: Taylor and Francis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 294 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 408 g
- Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
Thomas Szasz is 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, D.C. He is the author of My Madness Saved Me: The Marriage and Madness of Virginia Woolf, A Lexicon of Lunacy, Liberation by Oppression, Words to the Wise, and Faith in Freedom, all available from Transaction.
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