Psychiatry: The Science of Lies

by Thomas Szasz

Book Overview

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560792X
• ISBN13: 9780815607922
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 9.0"