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What is Psychiatry about?

For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, 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 of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand-physicians, patients, politicians, health-insurance providers, and legal professionals-take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating non-diseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and non-disease-genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood-thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain. There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medica

Author

Thomas Szasz, Tom Weiner

Publisher

Blackstone on Brilliance Audio

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781721318148

Updated

2026-03-24