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the psychiatric abolitionist faces his critics

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English
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450

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Subjects

Psychiatry, Philosophy, Antipsychiatry, Mental illness, Right to die, Insanity (law), Drug abuse, Psychopharmacology

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Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-)

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Szasz under fire: a psychiatric abolitionist faces his critics
2005, Open Court
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2004, Open Court
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Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics
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Table of Contents

Introduction / by Jeffrey A. Schaler
An autobiographical sketch / by Thomas Szasz
The myth of mental illness / R.E. Kendell
Values-based medicine : Thomas Szasz's Legacy to twenty-first century psychiatry / K.W.M. Fulford
Persons and Popper's world 3 : do humans dream of abstract sheep? / Ray Scott Percival
On Thomas Szasz, the meaning of mental illness and the therapeutic state : a critique / Ralph Slovenko
Prescribed addiction / Stanton Peele
The legitimacy of the defense of insanity / Rita J. Simon
Pharmacracy or phantom? / E. James Lieberman
Bombing the cradles : the disorder mental effects of off-the-chart life experiences : mother-assault; sexual abuse and domestic violence; natural disasters; political violence and war / Margaret A. Hagen
What kind of freedom? : Szasz's misleading perception of physician-assisted suicide / Margaret P. Battin and Ryan Spellecy
Sideshow : schizophrenia as construed by Szasz and the neo-kraepelinians / Richard Bentall
Moving beyond the "myth" of mental illness / Ronald Pies
Mental illness as a myth : a methodological re-interpretation / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-430) and index

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RC437.5 .S94 2004, RC437.5.S94 2004

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xxv, 450 p. ;
Number of pages
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ISBN 10
0812695682
LCCN
2004006826
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