Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared

by Thomas Szasz

More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness--a disease of the mind--is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. Disease, in the medical sense, affects only the body. He also demonstrated that civil commitment and the insanity defense, the paradigmatic practices of psychiatry, are incompatible with the political values of personal responsibility and individual liberty. The psychiatric establishment's rejection of Szasz's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609434
• ISBN13: 9780815609438
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"