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Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry, The
Responding to my May 2009 column (www.tinyurl.com/ddl5p6), George Mason University economics professor Bryan Caplan commented: "In the last couple...
Freeman, 07/01/09 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Beheading on a Bus
How do we explain the mentality of a killer? In August 2008, Canadians were shocked to learn that Edmonton resident Vincent Li had stabbed to...
Liberty, 06/01/09 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Questioning One's Insanity
On one thing our authors agree: psychiatry can be a dreadful thing, especially when it's sponsored by the state. "The Changeling/' the recent...
Liberty, 03/01/09 by Szasz, Thomas S · More from publication -
Psychiatry: The Shame of Medicine
The practice of medicine rests on cooperation and the ethical-legal premise that treatment is justified by the patient's consent not his illness....
Freeman, 03/01/09 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Burden of Responsibility, The
Life is an unending series of choices and, fore, "problems in living." Ordinary choices what to have for breakfast-we ignore as trivial....
Freeman, 12/01/08 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Mendacity by Metaphor
Once upon a time, law-abiding citizens acknowledged that they wanted lawbreakers punished. They did not say the offenders "needed" punishment. When...
Freeman, 10/01/08 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Debunking antipsychiatry: Laing, Law, and Largactil
Words are the only things that last for ever. Words are the only things that last for ever. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) (1) 1 The term...
Existential Analysis, 07/01/08 by Thomas Szasz · More from publication -
Psychiatry Versus Liberty
For millennia, slavery-involuntary servitude-was a universally accepted social institution. Today, psychiatric slavery-involuntary "treatment for...
Freeman, 07/01/08 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Anti-Coercion Is Not Anti-Psychiatry
The term "anti-psychiatry" was created in 1967 by the South African psychiatrist David Cooper (1931-1986) and the Scottish psychiatrist Ronald...
Freeman, 05/01/08 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication -
Treatments Without Diseases
In the psychiatrically correct view, mental illnesses are "just like bodily illnesses"; in fact, they are authoritatively declared to be "brain...
Freeman, 03/01/08 by Szasz, Thomas · More from publication
