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Anti-psychiatry : Quackery Squared by Szasz, Thomas(Author) is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.

What is Anti-psychiatry : Quackery Squared about?

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 critique posed no danger to his work: its defens

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Author
Szasz, Thomas(Author)
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780815609438
Category
medicine
Subjects
Medical, Psychology, Philosophy
Updated
2026-03-24

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