Description
Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justify the practice of locking up people against their will and treating them with a variety of unwanted, unsolicited, and damaging interventions.
Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Syracuse University Publications in Continuin
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.28w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780815602248
ISBN10: 0815602243
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
About the Author
Thomas Szasz is the author of over four hundred articles and nineteen books; among the most recent are The
Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. He was both a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.